Trust me, I know how you feel. My last shipped call duck hatch, I had made a safety hole for one that was internally pipped and 24 hours later it was dead. It was a perfect little duck. No yolk, no blood and it had oxygen, so I do not know why it died. It's heart breaking and terrible but it happens.
X2!
I was probably one of Ravyn's emergencies. Let me tell you, you are a life saver in tough situations!!! Everyone needs to know that I'm indebted to you!
I had a question about this...were they internally pipped? Or did you find the beak through the membrane?
I know this has been a rough hatch for you. You've had amazing luck at shipped eggs before this. This hatch you've had now is way common for shipped. Don't beat yourself up. I've hatched so many batches of shipped silkie eggs and I have had good hatches but also lots of bad hatches. I know how it feels.
I didn't do it... YOU did! You saved a life and gave it an awesome opportunity for a new start... you did amazing!!
Can I complain a little again? In a thread a member said they have five hens and one rooster and all their hens' back are completely bare, and asked if they should separate the rooster. I of course said yes.
Then two more posters came in and said "Oh no, don't worry about it, keep letting your rooster overmate your hens, you know, as long as they don't seem stressed." Two! And these were not new members. Both have been around longer than me!
That and I had a brand new member come into a thread and start arguing with me that a red sex link hen was a new hampshire hen. When I pointed out the obvious fact that the hen wasn't colored right for a new hampshire at all they came back with "well their colors fade as they get older". Just
This keeps happening to me lately and it's getting really frustrating. There was also the one person who refused to accept that their polish cockerel was a cockerel even though at three months it had huge pronounced wattles and a swept back crest. The poster's response was that it wasn't crowing and its crest didn't look like their other polish cockerels' crests. Then they proceeded to post a picture of one of their 'polish' cockerels to prove me wrong and...it was a brabanter. Which I told them. But nope, they then just dug their heels in and insisted that it was a polish!
Anyway. I feel better getting all that out. Lol. Sorry. Carry on.
Hey, so can we muzzle our biting ducks and walk them in the park???
I may sound really nerdy for this but I seriously love to learn. I don't understand why people get so offended if they are wrong. Just cop to it and learn from it I say. 
