Hands on hatching and help

[Laurel Meadows]

Sad update on this pretty yellow chick.. s/he did not make it through the night.

I have one EE that hatched on its own last night and has a big belly and stays on its back kicking its feet. I wonder if anyone has had this issue and how to help this chick? He's got strong lungs and chirping away trying to move around but cant. Advice??

sorry about your chick.

For your EE chick, do you have anything down in the hatcher/ incubator like paper towels or shelf liner to help them get some traction to stand? If you have other eggs pipped and your humidity is up high, you can try to turn the chick with legs underneath it and see if it can stay upright. Watch for the legs to shoot out straight by the head or to the sides (spraddle/ splay legs). It's not unusual for them to have big bellies from absorbing the yolk.
Keep us posted and if you can get a pic that might help us to give you a better idea of what's going on. Hopefully it's just tired and needs a little more time to get its bearings.

Day 22 on Japanese bantams still having hope because last night i was looking at the eggs and heard some little chirps coming from one egg and when candle for a few seconds looked like an internal pip other didn't though really excited!!

Yep yep!! If you hear chirping and don't see a pip in the shell, you've got an internal pip! :yiipchick

 

[lovesanimals101]

About how much longer after internal pip is there an external pip and should there be movement in the egg or is it absorbing rest of yolk still or resting to get ready for hatch?

 

[BigWeenMachine]

Day 22 on Japanese bantams still having hope because last night i was looking at the eggs and heard some little chirps coming from one egg and when candle for a few seconds looked like an internal pip other didn't though really excited!!

Good luck. Can't wait to see if you luck out and get them to hatch. Once they get late it's nerve racking because you just don't know what is gonna happen..... I am in the same boat as you. Day 29 on my ancona ducks and thought all hope was lost thanks to the bacterial outbreak. Just candled 5 or 6 of them and found that 2 of them are just starting to pip internally. I tapped on their shell and could hear them peeping and nibbling away at the membrane!!! Sure hope we can at least get a few to hatch...... So excited again!!!!

 

[BigWeenMachine]

About how much longer after internal pip is there an external pip and should there be movement in the egg or is it absorbing rest of yolk still or resting to get ready for hatch?

I would love to know this too but for ducks if anyone knows???

 

[AmyLynn2374]

About how much longer after internal pip is there an external pip and should there be movement in the egg or is it absorbing rest of yolk still or resting to get ready for hatch?

Usually you see an external pip somewhere w/in 24 horus of the internal pip. Some times you see movement, more often, in my case anyway, I do not see much until the external. Occasionaly I'll get a good chirper that you hear from in the shell, but generally until I get an external I don't see much for movement.

 

[Ravynscroft]

7 Muscovy eggs day 7, all fertile and showing good veins.  Average wt. loss just 2%.  How do you decrease humidity when you don't even have any water in the incubator??

Mist the eggs... evaporation of water off the shell increases moisure loss in the eggs...

I would love to know this too but for ducks if anyone knows???

A good 24hrs... may or may not move around... and they can take quite a bit longer from external pip to zipping... ducks take a lot longer than chickens do...

 

[Blooie]

Day 23 and I'm in that exact postion, Amy, so I'm glad @lovesanimals101 's question came up! Broke down and candled the last 5 eggs last night. There were 6, but I went back in the bedroom to check incubator temps and humidity and got the barest whiff of something unpleasant. I knew Ken's socks were in the hamper, so that wasn't it. Opened the incubator <shudder> and the smell was a little stronger.

Now, I have the keenest sense of smell on the planet - Ken says I'm a 1 part per billion kinda of sniffer. I diagnosed my son's diabetes before he even went to the doctor - I smelled it on him. Same when they were little and same with the grandkids. If I detect a slight smell of penicillian on their breaths, I know there's a cold or ear infection starting up. Ma was the same way. So anyway, the smell wasn't strong, but it was there. A little blood-hounding revealed that the Bielefelder egg was beginning to stink. So out it went. Down from 8 at lockdown to 2 hatched and 5 left. One egg, that persistent Green Magnolia, had a little movement but nothing in the others. And once I opened that doggone incubator, it's not holding temp again. I double checked vents, made sure the top was on securely, and it was still in the 97 degree range and not budging. Waited a bit, checked again, no change. I tried putting a vent plug back in to see if would come up. Nope. So I bumped it up using the knob. Now it's at 100 and then bouncing back down. I'm about over this.

But I'l wait another couple of days.

Sweet Pea's little red bum now looks way better...his one eye is still shut. Be heading down shortly to pick up something to put on it. I was so sure it was a little pullet when his down was all dried and caked to his body. But I cleaned him up, dried him with the blow dryer, and then tucked him back in the incubator to finish drying and fluffling. When I got him out, there it was - a big white spot on his head. So either I put in a girl and pulled out a boy, or the spot was too matted down to see.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

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Usually you see an external pip somewhere w/in 24 horus of the internal pip. Some times you see movement, more often, in my case anyway, I do not see much until the external. Occasionaly I'll get a good chirper that you hear from in the shell, but generally until I get an external I don't see much for movement.

A good 24hrs... may or may not move around... and they can take quite a bit longer from external pip to zipping... ducks take a lot longer than chickens do...

Ugh, the waiting game again..... I do know how these ducks like to take their time. The last hatch I had one egg that took over 60 hours to hatch after externally pipping and I had to pull him out of his egg, kicking and screaming. Lol, maybe that's an over exaggeration but I did have to assist him to finally get him out....

 

[Ravynscroft]

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Ugh, the waiting game again.....  I do know how these ducks like to take their time.  The last hatch I had one egg that took over 60 hours to hatch after externally pipping and I had to pull him out of his egg, kicking and screaming.  Lol, maybe that's an over exaggeration but I did have to assist him to finally get him out.... 

I had a Call take 3 full days after til she was ready to come out, lol... every morn I figured she would be gone, but she fought hard... once she was ready, she popped out and started running around like a maniac... she turned out happy and healthy and is about to hatch her own brood with her best friend...

She is on the left, Lady Grey... and Crash is on the right...

 

[Sarkchick]

Update on my late hatch SWH duckling. It is getting stronger by the day. Still has a bit of balance issue. Just put it in with 4 others from same hatch.

Thank you all for your advice and help
Linda