Hands on hatching and help

[2crazyflockers]

I had a Muscovy pip last night and the mother decided he no longer needed his shell now it is here with its yolk still on the outside about a penny size yolk sack what can I do to help my little one make it this my very first chick to hatch and I am really heartbroken and will just be devastated if there's no help for this little baby Muscovy someone anyone what can I do?

please someone help us help this little baby

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I had a Muscovy pip last night and the mother decided he no longer needed his shell now it is here with its yolk still on the outside about a penny size yolk sack what can I do to help my little one make it this my very first chick to hatch and I am really heartbroken and will just be devastated if there's no help for this little baby Muscovy someone anyone what can I do?

Has the yolk sac ruptured or is it still entact? If it is still intact, he has a fair chance if you can keep him immobile and keep him from rupturing it. I put my chick in a coffee cup with a damp paper towel and placed it under the brooder light to give it a chance to absorb and he turned out just fine. If it's ruptured there's not much you can do other than to tie it off at the "navel", keep an antibiotic oitment (w/o pain relief) on it and wait and see. Hope he pulls through for you.

So I have to make this short and sweet as I am sick as a dog. Of the ten eggs in the bator, 3 have hatched and 2 of the other pippers are making progress. The 6th pip has no movement but I can clearly see blood stains inside the egg when candling, as well as in 2 of the other eggs that have not pipped. Any ideas? Maybe just struggling too hard to get out?

They are all officially late as we are now 28 days and 17 hours. Not sure if we'll get more than 5 but I'm surprised that many hatched.

One of the lil chocolate babies has a problem with it's neck. It appears to not be able to bend it's head down and just looks straight up wiggling its' head back and forth from side to side. I can bend it down gently and he will hold it somewhat right for a couple minutes but then when I check on him again he is doing the neck thing again or flopped on his back wriggling his neck from side to side. Anyone know what this could be or what I can do to fix it?

Hope you feel better. My boy has been sick for almost two days now, and it is not fun!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yay, thanks for hooking me up with minehorse97 Ravyn.  Just heard back from her and she thinks she may be able to send me some baby anconas in a couple weeks.  That's good because I had tried 4 other hatcheries and not a single one of them responded. 

Just saw this, awesome!!! I just didn't know if she was still shipping live ones or not... she is really great, so you are in good hands...

So I have to make this short and sweet as I am sick as a dog.  Of the ten eggs in the bator, 3 have hatched and 2 of the other pippers are making progress.  The 6th pip has no movement but I can clearly see blood stains inside the egg when candling, as well as in 2 of the other eggs that have not pipped.  Any ideas?  Maybe just struggling too hard to get out?

They are all officially late as we are now 28 days and 17 hours.  Not sure if we'll get more than 5 but I'm surprised that many hatched. 

One of the lil chocolate babies has a problem with it's neck.  It appears to not be able to bend it's head down and just looks straight up wiggling its' head back and forth from side to side.  I can bend it down gently and he will hold it somewhat right for a couple minutes but then when I check on him again he is doing the neck thing again or flopped on his back wriggling his neck from side to side.  Anyone know what this could be or what I can do to fix it?

Called wry neck... give it a couple drops of nutridrench straight 3x a day for a couple days... if it's fixable, that will do it... good luck and congrats on your hatch...

please someone help us help this little baby

Do you have a bator? Put it in and let it rest and absorb the yolk... might put it in a cup to keep it from moving around too much til it absorbs... not a lot you can do with that but wait and let it absorb... just keep an eye on it so it doesn't rupture the yolk sac...

 

[RubyNala97]

Update on the hatch. We had 6 out of 12 hatch out. The ones that were rocking and wiggling didn't make it. The 3 others just didn't fully develop. I opened them up to see what went wrong. The ones that were moving looked like the membrane vacuumed sealed around them causing them to suffocate. What could cause this? Thank you to all who helped me with my previous post. Congrats to all who have some hatching soon and good luck

Did you happen to get a pic by any chance?

So... I told myself I wasn't going to set any more eggs for a while....  but I lied to myself.  I have 7 to lockdown in a couple of days, and then I was going to be done. 

Well, instead, I now have 5 (yes, just 5!) of my cuckoo bantam cochin's eggs in there.  I have been dying to hatch some of hers, since I determined which egg was hers, and last night, they jumped into the bator and I just had to let them stay. 

(see, my thinking is, if these sell well, then I might be able to justify that new incubator! LOL)

I had a Muscovy pip last night and the mother decided he no longer needed his shell now it is here with its yolk still on the outside about a penny size yolk sack what can I do to help my little one make it this my very first chick to hatch and I am really heartbroken and will just be devastated if there's no help for this little baby Muscovy someone anyone what can I do?

I've never experienced this but I know Amy has. You want him to finish absorbing the yolk without it rupturing. So no movement. If he tries to get up and move around it could rupture. Do you have an incubator? You can put him in a coffee cup and keep him warm (around 90 degrees-ish) and wait for it to absorb.

So I have to make this short and sweet as I am sick as a dog.  Of the ten eggs in the bator, 3 have hatched and 2 of the other pippers are making progress.  The 6th pip has no movement but I can clearly see blood stains inside the egg when candling, as well as in 2 of the other eggs that have not pipped.  Any ideas?  Maybe just struggling too hard to get out?

They are all officially late as we are now 28 days and 17 hours.  Not sure if we'll get more than 5 but I'm surprised that many hatched. 

One of the lil chocolate babies has a problem with it's neck.  It appears to not be able to bend it's head down and just looks straight up wiggling its' head back and forth from side to side.  I can bend it down gently and he will hold it somewhat right for a couple minutes but then when I check on him again he is doing the neck thing again or flopped on his back wriggling his neck from side to side.  Anyone know what this could be or what I can do to fix it?

Hope you feel better soon! What is up with these eggs with blood? Someone else had the same issue. And I don't know if ducks get the "star gazer" thing. But I would google it ASAP.

 

[tracyjg]

We had six. And 3 born alive and died 3 days later. The post office had the box tilted when they handed it to me. Shaken baby syndrome .on ship eggs nightmare.

 

[tracyjg]

I have had birds with neck issues die.so please keep close watch on him.

 

[SuperBuckBuck]

This is my second time incubating, last time 9/12 hatched!!! This time it is day 20. We have six eggs left out of 18. We candles them last on day 16 and all the eymbros were moving and good. I took them or of the automatic egg turner day 18 and began lockdown. I have seen 3 eggs rocking (more like vibrating but that's okay to but it's lags day20 and no pis or CHEEPS. I am worried but should I be? Ok they can hatch up to day 25z help!!!

 

[BigWeenMachine]

Just saw this, awesome!!! I just didn't know if she was still shipping live ones or not... she is really great, so you are in good hands...

Called wry neck... give it a couple drops of nutridrench straight 3x a day for a couple days... if it's fixable, that will do it... good luck and congrats on your hatch...

Hope you feel better soon! What is up with these eggs with blood? Someone else had the same issue. And I don't know if ducks get the "star gazer" thing. But I would google it ASAP.

Yea, she has a hatch due on May 8th and were waiting to see how many ducklings she gets. If enough hatch, I'm gonna have her send me 20!

So I looked up wry neck and thought that must be what my problem is since it flops it's head around and cannot properly hold it up. But then I looked up star gazing and I am almost 100% certain that is what it is after seeing videos of chicks with this problem. Apparently it could be due to neurological problems, genetics, thiamine deficiencies and even being malpositioned in the egg (which I am hoping is the case since it just hatched). Some people recommend culling star gazing chicks but I can't do that. So at the very least, I should probably keep this duck from breeding in the future.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

I just noticed how dark my little blue runner duck is. So I pulled him outta the brooder and upon closer examination found that he is not blue at all. He is black.

. After looking at baby number 4 that just hatched I am certain he is gonna be black too. Nothing against black runners, we just already have a pair of those and were really looking forward to the gorgeous blue runners that we had ordered. **Sigh** What else could go wrong with our hatches this year?

 

[chickenrun57]

Amylynn no offense taken trust me. I don't know anything about hatching our own eggs except for what we read about. Didn't read anything about this stuff. Yes 3 of them looked like the first pics you posted and 2 like the last one that had too much moisture. Ruby sorry i didn't get any pics it was late when i opened them up and just didn't think about it. Amylynn2374 posted some pics that look like what mine did after opening them up