Ducklings bill sticking out of egg

[MBM]

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any ideas as to why a ducklings whole bill would be outside of an egg. I'm incubating Saxony ducklings and everything has gone well, except for that one part. When taking out the ducklings i saw that one egg was upside down and the ducklings whole bill was sticking through the egg. The duckling was dead by the time i noticed him. I'm just wondering why he would die? There wasn't any goo around his bill, it was all clean. Was it because he started to zip and the other ducklings that already hatched turned his whole egg over? Or is it because he was too big and couldn't get out?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Very sorry for your loss.
Could have been being upside down it couldn't breathe very good. Don't know that for sure though so I best tag some more experienced with bator hatching.
@DuckyDonna
@shawluvsbirds
@WVduckchick

 

[DuckyDonna]

Very sorry for your loss.
Could have been being upside down it couldn't breathe very good. Don't know that for sure though so I best tag some more experienced with bator hatching.
@DuckyDonna
@shawluvsbirds
@WVduckchick

I haven't a clue.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any ideas as to why a ducklings whole bill would be outside of an egg. I'm incubating Saxony ducklings and everything has gone well, except for that one part. When taking out the ducklings i saw that one egg was upside down and the ducklings whole bill was sticking through the egg. The duckling was dead by the time i noticed him. I'm just wondering why he would die? There wasn't any goo around his bill, it was all clean. Was it because he started to zip and the other ducklings that already hatched turned his whole egg over? Or is it because he was too big and couldn't get out?

The air cell may have not been big enough and once the bill was outside the egg it probably couldn't turn to continue zipping out and just passed away.

 

[DukesDucks]

Sorry for your loss. It is hard to know when to get the new hatchlings out of the incubator. The first ones always create havoc for the remaining eggs.