Then, there was nothing you could have done! If his yolk sack wasn’t absorbed he wasn’t ready for hatching. Many things could have been wrong. Maybe your humidity was too high? I have read that if it is, the air sac stays small and the duckling grows too big to move well. I lost several ducklings and chicks when I first started hatching to what I think was that. I have since switched to dry hatching, where you do not add any water until lockdown and have much better hatch rates. Anyway, know that hatching is really difficult. That’s why they say, “Never count your chickens before they hatch.” It is still hard though. I’m so very sorry!So opened the egg. Never hit blood. The little one is stiff as a board and a yolk sack is still there with it. It’s unresponsive and doesn’t appear to be breathing
