EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Akrnaf2]

Okay, I have an incubating question.... (Gasp!)

Lockdown is on Wednesday. Air cells are large and have been since day 3, so humidity has been at 50% almost the whole time. If I left it at 50, I think AC size would be OK... Almost too big, but ok.

But, there is fluid in one of the egg's AC. Would running a lower humidity help get rid of that, or not?

IMO the situation of FLUID in the AC is an indicator of some rupture in the egg membrane, I can't see any other reason, whay water that have been evaporated in the surface of the egg will condensed in the Air Cell.

 

[BantyChooks]

I have no idea what a duck eats, but about the equivalent of a chicken broth that we get when we are sick?

Tried tuna water.... Didnt work

 

[BantyChooks]

I've offered Chrissy:
Scrambled egg, fried
Scrambled egg, fried and ground to liquid again
Tuna
Watery tuna
Ground tuna water
Apple bits
Regular food
Her regular food, wet
Lettuce bits in water

 

[daxigait]

Tried tuna water.... Didnt work

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I've offered Chrissy:
Scrambled egg, fried
Scrambled egg, fried and ground to liquid again
Tuna
Watery tuna
Ground tuna water
Apple bits
Regular food
Her regular food, wet
Lettuce bits in water

ay have to force the issue. Have you talked to Kathy?

 

[daxigait]

Time for bed. Good night.

 

[daxigait]

I've offered Chrissy:
Scrambled egg, fried
Scrambled egg, fried and ground to liquid again
Tuna
Watery tuna
Ground tuna water
Apple bits
Regular food
Her regular food, wet
Lettuce bits in water

I wish I knew how to help.

 

[BantyChooks]

You .ay have to force the issue. Have you talked to Kathy?

Nope, but been reading about tube feeding. I do not know that I can, however, as she doesn't/can't straighten her neck.... She keeps it against her body and just swivels her head to get to stuff. It looks like there's bruising on the back.

 

[BantyChooks]

I wish I knew how to help.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I've offered Chrissy:
Scrambled egg, fried
Scrambled egg, fried and ground to liquid again
Tuna
Watery tuna
Ground tuna water
Apple bits
Regular food
Her regular food, wet
Lettuce bits in water

Quote: I'm sure it's uncomfortable for her and painful, but since she's drinking, I would think that internally everything's ok, and if it was more than soft tissue injury (extensive though it is), meaning skeletal/spinal cord, she would not have survived. Meaning that she may not be doing it because it hurts, but you might need to, as Dax says, force the issue and straighten her neck - I may be reading this completely wrong, but she's GOT to eat or she won't heal (including enough to straighten her neck), and (don't know another way to say it), maybe you need to see if you can get her neck closer to the right position even if she doesn't want to or it hurts her.

While trying to figure that out, any thoughts about a higher concentration sugar solution as a brief stop gap while you look at the tubing options? (Since there has been very little to no calorie input for several days now while her body is in a stressful situation that if anything would call for higher calorie needs.) There's not enough in Sav-a-Chick to be significant calorie input for an adult bird, I'm thinking...

Just tossing out ideas, you've probably thought about all of that, and you're the one looking at her/with her. Did you get other input from the duck folks on BYC?

 

[Akrnaf2]

I've offered Chrissy:
Scrambled egg, fried
Scrambled egg, fried and ground to liquid again
Tuna
Watery tuna
Ground tuna water
Apple bits
Regular food
Her regular food, wet
Lettuce bits in water

I wish I knew how to help.

Bubble
I think that if you will use some Human concentrate nutrition powder, like Ensure diluted in some water and forced feed with a syringe, rt will do the work.