could be pipping!

[StitchMyStars6]

6 ducklings

 

[StitchMyStars6]

A 7th & 8th are internally pipped and peeping.

 

[Miss Lydia]

6 ducklings

A 7th & 8th are internally pipped and peeping.

taping fingers wondering where the pics are. LOL
Congrats Brooder filling up fast.

 

[StitchMyStars6]

I spoke too soon, 7 & 8 pipped externally haha

Pics! Of course!

 

[StitchMyStars6]

7 & 8 pipped

 

[Miss Lydia]

7 & 8 pipped

Look at different colors, awesome. watch your light isn't hanging down too close. Don't you just love them to pieces. Thanks for sharing them with us too.

 

[StitchMyStars6]

Some time last night both 7 & 8 hatched, but both did not absorb their yolk all the way. They were detached from their shells on their own. I guess they were eager??!! One of them had this greenish liquid surrounding it, like I was oozing slowly... the other wasn't so bad, looked like it would be ok and absorb its yolk fine. I read up through previous posts about using antibiotic ointment/cream, corn starch, and even letting it soak in water. I took both out and carefully applied antibiotic ointment to their navels with a qtip and placed them back in the bator with a paper towel (dampened just in the middle) so it could absorb any excess into the paper towel.
This morning, the one with green ooze didn't make it unfortunately however, the other is peeping away, moving, drinking, except it still had a tiny bit of the yolk or umbilici hanging out. Not as much as late last night. I applied more ointment. He's doing ok. But what should I do? I don't want to put him in with the other duckies, what if they pick on him?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Some time last night both 7 & 8 hatched, but both did not absorb their yolk all the way. They were detached from their shells on their own. I guess they were eager??!! One of them had this greenish liquid surrounding it, like I was oozing slowly... the other wasn't so bad, looked like it would be ok and absorb its yolk fine. I read up through previous posts about using antibiotic ointment/cream, corn starch, and even letting it soak in water. I took both out and carefully applied antibiotic ointment to their navels with a qtip and placed them back in the bator with a paper towel (dampened just in the middle) so it could absorb any excess into the paper towel.
This morning, the one with green ooze didn't make it unfortunately

however, the other is peeping away, moving, drinking, except it still had a tiny bit of the yolk or umbilici hanging out. Not as much as late last night. I applied more ointment. He's doing ok. But what should I do? I don't want to put him in with the other duckies, what if they pick on him?

Aww sorry about the lil one, I wouldn't put this lil one in with the rest at all till completely absorbed. can you keep it in the bator? and make sure you keep that sac clean if you have some betadine or iodine you can mix with water to look like weak tea and use it too. I wouldn't put it into water though. or you could place the lil one inside his own lil brooder inside the big one that way it would be with the rest just not able to be messed with yet. Just keep what ever you put him in as clean as you can till the sac is completely gone in.

 

[casportpony]

Some time last night both 7 & 8 hatched, but both did not absorb their yolk all the way. They were detached from their shells on their own. I guess they were eager??!! One of them had this greenish liquid surrounding it, like I was oozing slowly... the other wasn't so bad, looked like it would be ok and absorb its yolk fine. I read up through previous posts about using antibiotic ointment/cream, corn starch, and even letting it soak in water. I took both out and carefully applied antibiotic ointment to their navels with a qtip and placed them back in the bator with a paper towel (dampened just in the middle) so it could absorb any excess into the paper towel.
This morning, the one with green ooze didn't make it unfortunately

however, the other is peeping away, moving, drinking, except it still had a tiny bit of the yolk or umbilici hanging out. Not as much as late last night. I applied more ointment. He's doing ok. But what should I do? I don't want to put him in with the other duckies, what if they pick on him?

Sorry for your loss...

I'm having the same sort of issues here.

-Kathy

 

[StitchMyStars6]

Ehh, it happens to us all I guess. There's really no telling who will or won't make it. Even if they do pip. But I'm glad to say 7 out of the 18 hatched. Few more to go, hopefully. 3 others did pass as well, they were well beyond due dates and there was no more movement in them. I only inspected them when another was hatched and ready to go in the box to reduce opening the bator. I candled, listened for any peeps pecks and clicks, and it was silent...... I was afraid to break that news, especially when the 8th didn't make it it made me so sad that it hatched and struggled the others were still in their eggs, no pips at all...... so they never took a breath of air