Candeling and hatching diary.

[chicken5656]

LOOKING GOOD

Thanks lock tomorrow !

 

[sasimpson77]

So I guess my kids did a good job turning eggs while I was gone I have 200 plus chicks right now they started hatching on tues. but were not due until today go figure good thing I didn't wait an extra day to lock down these are all BYM that I hatched out for a friend who has an egg business. I am supposed to split the hatch with him but I still have over 75 chicks that hatched while I was in colorado so I will probably give the majority of them back to him. I really want to see my orpingtons and wyandottes start hatching.

 

[pinusresinosa]

@Lacrystol , I need your help maybe.

It's day 26 for this one single duckling, it's going to be totally alone (was set with set 3 of the chickens that already hatched). It's been internally pipped for two days. No external pip. It's moving a lot, peeping a lot, and when I candle it you can see that the duckling is dry, there's no real fluid in the egg anymore. When I hold the egg to my ear, I can hear it tapping on the shell sides. It's moving so much that I have to hold the egg to make sure it doesn't like, roll out of my hand almost!

I intervened with one chick with that hatch from what I learned watching you help someone hatch a duckling that was having trouble and this chick is doing great. I helped it unzip and helped it just pop the egg apart- which it did mostly itself. Everything was fine, but my guts were telling me that if I hadn't done it the chick wouldn't have made it. After this last duckling loss and with this one, there was another but it quit around the time the chicks hatched, I really don't want to lose this ducking- especially with how robust it sounds in the shell.

Is there anything I can do now and asap?

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

@Lacrystol
, I need your help maybe.

It's day 26 for this one single duckling, it's going to be totally alone (was set with set 3 of the chickens that already hatched). It's been internally pipped for two days. No external pip. It's moving a lot, peeping a lot, and when I candle it you can see that the duckling is dry, there's no real fluid in the egg anymore. When I hold the egg to my ear, I can hear it tapping on the shell sides. It's moving so much that I have to hold the egg to make sure it doesn't like, roll out of my hand almost!

I intervened with one chick with that hatch from what I learned watching you help someone hatch a duckling that was having trouble and this chick is doing great. I helped it unzip and helped it just pop the egg apart- which it did mostly itself. Everything was fine, but my guts were telling me that if I hadn't done it the chick wouldn't have made it. After this last duckling loss and with this one, there was another but it quit around the time the chicks hatched, I really don't want to lose this ducking- especially with how robust it sounds in the shell.

Is there anything I can do now and asap?

If it were me and my egg I would externally pip it then leave it for a while. At least that way you know it isn't going to suffocate

 

[pinusresinosa]

I'm reading about how to do this. How do you go about locating where the beak should be?

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I'm reading about how to do this. How do you go about locating where the beak should be?

You can candle and look for it or just put a small hole in the top of the air cell

 

[pinusresinosa]

I found it. I read up on another thread here about the same thing and helping the duckling out. So. I did that. I'm so glad I did.

Duckling is resting perfectly healthy and fine in the incubator, bottom still in the shell. There's still yolk attached to the abdomen, but from what I've read this is not totally unusual. The shape of the baby looks normal, no smells or anything odd. When I talk to this baby, she peeps at me. She's been moving her head around a lot. It looks ugly and I got the first pip wrong. I decided to start chipping where there was a crack existing/purplish color. Then I decided against it based on where pips "should" be, so candled, didn't see anything that I could define, then put my ear up to the egg and went from there. I got it right the second time. The second I got the shell off, I could see a beak tip imprint under the intact membranes! So, I carefully slit the membranes and the beak came popping out. Then I went from there.

There was one tiny amount of flowing blood from one spot but it was very small. I feel very fortunate.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I found it. I read up on another thread here about the same thing and helping the duckling out. So. I did that. I'm so glad I did. Duckling is resting perfectly healthy and fine in the incubator, bottom still in the shell. There's still yolk attached to the abdomen, but from what I've read this is not totally unusual. The shape of the baby looks normal, no smells or anything odd. When I talk to this baby, she peeps at me. She's been moving her head around a lot. It looks ugly and I got the first pip wrong. I decided to start chipping where there was a crack existing/purplish color. Then I decided against it based on where pips "should" be, so candled, didn't see anything that I could define, then put my ear up to the egg and went from there. I got it right the second time. The second I got the shell off, I could see a beak tip imprint under the intact membranes! So, I carefully slit the membranes and the beak came popping out. Then I went from there. There was one tiny amount of flowing blood from one spot but it was very small. I feel very fortunate.

Yay baby! Now remember that ducks can take 24+ hours to get up and moving

 

[Lacrystol]

@Lacrystol
, I need your help maybe.

It's day 26 for this one single duckling, it's going to be totally alone (was set with set 3 of the chickens that already hatched). It's been internally pipped for two days. No external pip. It's moving a lot, peeping a lot, and when I candle it you can see that the duckling is dry, there's no real fluid in the egg anymore. When I hold the egg to my ear, I can hear it tapping on the shell sides. It's moving so much that I have to hold the egg to make sure it doesn't like, roll out of my hand almost!

I intervened with one chick with that hatch from what I learned watching you help someone hatch a duckling that was having trouble and this chick is doing great. I helped it unzip and helped it just pop the egg apart- which it did mostly itself. Everything was fine, but my guts were telling me that if I hadn't done it the chick wouldn't have made it. After this last duckling loss and with this one, there was another but it quit around the time the chicks hatched, I really don't want to lose this ducking- especially with how robust it sounds in the shell.

Is there anything I can do now and asap?

YES SORRY I DIDNT SEE THIS EARLIER WAS PUTTING BRAKES ON MY CAR, MAKE HIM A SAFE HOLE NOW...

 

[Lacrystol]

I'm reading about how to do this. How do you go about locating where the beak should be?

Ok safe hole a safe hole is a small hole no bigger then the tip of a pen. Give them 24 hours after this.. You make it at the air cell, doesn't matter where the beak is just at the air cell..