Duck Eggtopsy - Warning, Lots of Graphic Pictures!

[casportpony]

Here is one I was able to save:














-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Here is one I was able to save:














-Kathy

Good going K, explain what was going on that you had to intervene is that the normal look of a membrane? of all the chicks that have hatched here I have never seen one look like that.

 

[casportpony]

Good going K, explain what was going on that you had to intervene is that the normal look of a membrane? of all the chicks that have hatched here I have never seen one look like that.

It was day 28 for the peachick, and as you can see, it had not pipped internally. I believe this one could not pip because it was shrink wrapped, hence the color of the membrane.

Here you can see the beak:


after I moistened the membrane I exposed it's beak, then stuck it back in the incubator for 24 hours.


Peachicks normally take 28 days, but when I candled this one I could tell it was running out of energy, so made the decision to intervene.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

It was day 28 for the peachick, and as you can see, it had not pipped internally. I believe this one could not pip because it was shrink wrapped, hence the color of the membrane.

Here you can see the beak:


after I moistened the membrane I exposed it's beak, then stuck it back in the incubator for 24 hours.


Peachicks normally take 28 days, but when I candled this one I could tell it was running out of energy, so made the decision to intervene.

-Kathy

That membrane looks very thick when my hens chick died in the shell before hatch day I opened it up and the membrane didn't look thick like the one in the pic. So the white is shrink wrapped? I thought it would be brown.

 

[casportpony]

You ever wonder what happens to all of that yolk belly? They start to digest it, and in digesting it, they lose weight. Here it is at hatch:


Here it is 24 hours later:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

That membrane looks very thick when my hens chick died in the shell before hatch day I opened it up and the membrane didn't look thick like the one in the pic. So the white is shrink wrapped? I thought it would be brown.

The think membrane is something I'm looking into, 'cause I also had two of those. I've also see the brown shrink-wrapped ones, but only if they pipped internally... Here the not internally pipped and shrink-wrapped have always been white.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Interesting to say the least.

Looks like a very healthy pea chick.

 

[casportpony]

Interesting to say the least.

Looks like a very healthy pea chick.

Knock wood... the few few days make me quite anxious.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Be warned... One of my up coming posts is going to show a peachick that lived for two weeks with a yolk sac infection.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Not a duck, but probable cause of death was humidity being too high:




-Kathy