Hands on hatching and help

[WVduckchick]

good riddance

 

[AmyLynn2374]

There are plenty of folks who agree with you. This thread is for those that don't.

Telling her to help it finish zipping wouldn't be bad advice. In fact, that would be the whole point of this thread.

The trouble is, you came into a thread specifically for people who assist during hatching and then gave advice directly against that. If you want to give advice like that in other places, that is fine. But to come into the thread we created for hands on hatchers and do it is frankly rude.
This post is extremely rude. Did you see what ended up happening with that chick? It survived because of some intervening. If you want to let your chicks die when they cannot hatch on their own, that's up to you and that's fine. But that's not what we do here and to come in here, give advice against our methods, and now to say what you just did is extraordinarily uncalled for. Did you even read the first post or any of this thread at all before posting? I'm beginning to suspect you didn't. Because the other option is that you did and posted in here just to be argumentative and insult us, and I'd like to believe that's not the case...

A lot of times a chick is perfectly healthy and dies because of errors we make during incubation. You want to say we're intervening with Mother Nature. I ask you what is incubating if not exactly that? There's nothing natural about it. So to help a chick hatch because it's having problems that were created by the artificial and not at all natural way it's being brought into the world, how is that intervening with Mother Nature?

We won't judge you for hatching the way you see fit. Apparently you cannot give us the same courtesy.

I love you girls!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

good riddance

Took the words out of my mouth! Lol

 

[Pyxis]

Y'all are absolutely right. They are your eggs, your birds. You can do with them as you wish. I'll be on my way feeling sorry only for those poor hatchlings that don't make it or grow up to perpetuate the problems. No need for any further sass from any of you. Best of luck.

In all my time assisting I have had exactly two chicks that couldn't hatch because of genetic issues. And I culled them. The others are all due to the highly unnatural way we are bringing them into the world with incubation. And those grow up happy, healthy, with no problems, and don't pass any sort of issues onto their offspring because they have no issues. They only couldn't hatch due to the unnatural way they were brought into the world. Their offspring are healthy and don't need assisting. I rarely have to assist a hatch. None of it is genetic.

Feel sorry for them if you wish. I'll feel sorry for the perfectly healthy chicks you let die.

 

[Pyxis]

I love you girls!

We feel the same!

 

[newchickmama91]

Y'all are absolutely right. They are your eggs, your birds. You can do with them as you wish. I'll be on my way feeling sorry only for those poor hatchlings that don't make it or grow up to perpetuate the problems. No need for any further sass from any of you. Best of luck.

That's so rude! We do not judge you on your decisions so don't judge on ours. You've wasted a whole 5 minutes of your life writing ridiculous comments like those.

 

[Pyxis]

On a more pleasant note, I locked down my first goose egg of the year and all 26 call eggs that weren't clear (I started with 30, had four clears) made it to lockdown. Two had air cells that didn't grow well for some reason so they are not locked down and are being misted several times a day to hopefully get some more moisture loss before internal pip.

If all goes well I should have gosling and duckling pictures to share by Easter!

 

[newchickmama91]

Anyway, my friend has a problem! Her dog knocked her little incubator with the same ducks as mine which killed most of them sadly. One is hanging in there and another has had the air cell side smashed off. What advice shall I give her? I'm trying to tell her everything is going to be alright but I'm not sure. They are the same as mine from the same batch

 

[AmyLynn2374]

On a more pleasant note, I locked down my first goose egg of the year and all 26 call eggs that weren't clear (I started with 30, had four clears) made it to lockdown. Two had air cells that didn't grow well for some reason so they are not locked down and are being misted several times a day to hopefully get some more moisture loss before internal pip.

If all goes well I should have gosling and duckling pictures to share by Easter!

That's great! Good luck!

Anyway, my friend has a problem! Her dog knocked her little incubator with the same ducks as mine which killed most of them sadly. One is hanging in there and another has had the air cell side smashed off. What advice shall I give her? I'm trying to tell her everything is going to be alright but I'm not sure. They are the same as mine from the same batch

Ouch. My advice would be move the incubator where the dog can't knock it off, but I know that's not what you are asking. . How far along are the eggs? Unfortunately there's not a whole lot she can do. Especially with shell missing. I can only think of one thing. Crack an egg, wash out the top real well and place it over the air cell where the shell is missing. Don't know if it would help at all, but all I can think of.

 

[newchickmama91]

That's great! Good luck!
Ouch. My advice would be move the incubator where the dog can't knock it off, but I know that's not what you are asking. . How far along are the eggs? Unfortunately there's not a whole lot she can do. Especially with shell missing. I can only think of one thing. Crack an egg, wash out the top real well and place it over the air cell where the shell is missing. Don't know if it would help at all, but all I can think of.

The egg is on day 27! I'm surprised the duck is still alive. I told her to send me a photo so I can pop it on here see what the veins are like etc hopefully it'll survive