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

[AnneInTheBurbs]

I thought I'd share this.

Thank you! I think you did! So far, it looks good, just sleepy. To be expected after such an ordeal! Another chick has a pip, I will be watching very closely...

did you read that link that Sally posted I think it's on page 1699 I copied it but it didn't copy the link part period She said something about hips and lips being different with turkeys

I did, yep! Thanks. I had remembered reading before about not intervening too soon, but I didn't remember that the zip is only supposed to last up to 90 minutes for chickens. The chicks surprised me this morning by being a day early, and I hadn't gotten the humidity up enough. I'm sure this is why the turkey chick had a problem. I have tried to bring it up higher now. Hopefully I get one more chicky to hatch, since it has a pip.

 

[Phage]

So sorry to hear that. Distressing for both of you.

How often is she having the fits?

 

[The Duck Ladie]

My magpie duckling seems to be having trouble hatching. Pipped fine. But instead of unzippping in a circle around the AC she made a big hole in the middle. She is trying to push out butdoesn't seem to be able to. membrane seems to trap her a little.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

My magpie duckling seems to be having trouble hatching. Pipped fine. But instead of unzippping in a circle around the AC she made a big hole in the middle. She is trying to push out butdoesn't seem to be able to. membrane seems to trap her a little.

@BantyChooks

 

[BantyChooks]

@BantyChooks

How long since pip? How long since it started opening it like that?

Past asking those questions to provide info for others, I am no help. I have never hatched ducks.

 

[kwhites634]

Any further word from CH about his momma being taken to the hospital?

 

[The Duck Ladie]

How long since pip? How long since it started opening it like that?

Past asking those questions to provide info for others, I am no help. I have never hatched ducks.

She pipped yesterday night. She has been opening it like that for hmm... About an hour? The membrane is drying/dried It's all white and papery looking. She seems tired and I think she's stuck.

 

[BantyChooks]

She pipped yesterday night. She has been opening it like that for hmm...  About an hour? The membrane is drying/dried It's all white and papery looking. She seems tired and I think she's stuck.

White is perfectly normal for the outer membrane. Can you see the bill? Is she opening and closing it?

 

[BantyChooks]

If I were you, I'd go read the notes on duck hatches and assisting them.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

If I were you, I'd go read the notes on duck hatches and assisting them.

Will do.
Here's a picture

White is perfectly normal for the outer membrane. Can you see the bill? Is she opening and closing it?

Yes I see bill. I m not sure. I will watch her and see brb