Hands on hatching and help

[MultipleAnimals]

OKAY I HAVE FOUR NOW!! I HAD TO HELP THE LAST ONE DUE TO COMPLICATIONS DUE TO HE WAS IN A ROUND EGG, HE PIPPED INTO THE AIR CELL BEFORE DRAW DOWN AND AFTER I LOOKED CLOSELY HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PIP THE SHELL. HE WAS IN A POSITION TO PIP THE AIR CELL BUT THE POSITION WOULD NOT LET HIM PIP THE SHELL. I GUESS THE PROBLEM WAS BECAUSE THE EGG WAS ROUND. THE LIGHT GOLD NEXT TO THE RED-BROWN ONE AND THE BLACK ONE IS THE ONE THAT HELPED. THE OTHER GOLD ONE THATS AWAY FROM THEM IS THE ONE THAT HATCHED FROM THE EGG THAT I THOUGHT HAD TWO IN IT. BUT OUT OF A DOZEN EGGS THERE WERE FIVE VIABLE, ONLY FOUR MADE IT, THE FIFTH DIED FOR NO REASON NO PIP NO ABSORTION OF THE YOLK.

 

[WVduckchick]

OKAY I HAVE FOUR NOW!! I HAD TO HELP THE LAST ONE DUE TO COMPLICATIONS DUE TO HE WAS IN A ROUND EGG, HE PIPPED INTO THE AIR CELL BEFORE DRAW DOWN AND AFTER I LOOKED CLOSELY HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PIP THE SHELL. HE WAS IN A POSITION TO PIP THE AIR CELL BUT THE POSITION WOULD NOT LET HIM PIP THE SHELL. I GUESS THE PROBLEM WAS BECAUSE THE EGG WAS ROUND. THE LIGHT GOLD NEXT TO THE RED-BROWN ONE AND THE BLACK ONE IS THE ONE THAT HELPED. THE OTHER GOLD ONE THATS AWAY FROM THEM IS THE ONE THAT HATCHED FROM THE EGG THAT I THOUGHT HAD TWO IN IT. BUT OUT OF A DOZEN EGGS THERE WERE FIVE VIABLE, ONLY FOUR MADE IT, THE FIFTH DIED FOR NO REASON NO PIP NO ABSORTION OF THE YOLK.

Great job! They are adorable.

I have one that didn't draw down, but it still pipped. I actually expected it was already DIS because it wasn't drawing down. I'll see what happens with it when I get home.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Whew I did read everyone's post but their were so many I couldn't respond to them all this morning lol..

 

[Beau Garden]

My last egg that was good before lock down hasn't hatched. All the others are out and doing great but this last little baby hasn't even pipped. When I removed babies this morning to move to the brooder I candled and I can't even see the air sac. What should I do? Do you think it's dead? I tried tapping the bottom of the egg and there was no sound and I haven't seen any movement coming from it at all.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

OKAY I HAVE FOUR NOW!! I HAD TO HELP THE LAST ONE DUE TO COMPLICATIONS DUE TO HE WAS IN A ROUND EGG, HE PIPPED INTO THE AIR CELL BEFORE DRAW DOWN AND AFTER I LOOKED CLOSELY HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PIP THE SHELL. HE WAS IN A POSITION TO PIP THE AIR CELL BUT THE POSITION WOULD NOT LET HIM PIP THE SHELL. I GUESS THE PROBLEM WAS BECAUSE THE EGG WAS ROUND. THE LIGHT GOLD NEXT TO THE RED-BROWN ONE AND THE BLACK ONE IS THE ONE THAT HELPED. THE OTHER GOLD ONE THATS AWAY FROM THEM IS THE ONE THAT HATCHED FROM THE EGG THAT I THOUGHT HAD TWO IN IT. BUT OUT OF A DOZEN EGGS THERE WERE FIVE VIABLE, ONLY FOUR MADE IT, THE FIFTH DIED FOR NO REASON NO PIP NO ABSORTION OF THE YOLK.

Congrats! They are cute.

My last egg that was good before lock down hasn't hatched. All the others are out and doing great but this last little baby hasn't even pipped. When I removed babies this morning to move to the brooder I candled and I can't even see the air sac. What should I do? Do you think it's dead? I tried tapping the bottom of the egg and there was no sound and I haven't seen any movement coming from it at all.

If it's been over 24 hours since the last hatcher, and you can't feel any movement or see into the air cell, I'd wager it's gone. You can tap into the air cell first to double check. I had one in my last hatch that I could see into the air cell up to the time it internally pipped and then everything went black and I couldn't see into the air cell any more. I tapped into the air cell and took off that part of the shell and found the reason I could no longer see was when it internall pipped it pipped straight into a big vein. It still had the membrane with the vein in it's beak and blood all over the beak/nose. Apparently that was why I could no longer see into the air cell cause the blood made it too dark to see.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

My last egg that was good before lock down hasn't hatched.  All the others are out and doing great but this last little baby hasn't even pipped. When I removed babies this morning to move to the brooder I candled and I can't even see the air sac.  What should I do?  Do you think it's dead?  I tried tapping the bottom of the egg and there was no sound and I haven't seen any movement coming from it at all.

I personally would make make a hole in the air cell if you can't hear anything. Especially if you know it was alive before. That's just me personally though.

 

[2crazyflockers]

Sorry they didn't make it... That surely convinced me to not set this pea egg: -Kathy

I don't know, I would probably try it! The one on the bottom was OK until I pulled the other one out to see what was going on!

 

[2crazyflockers]

I wouldn't feel to bad. I read that twins are very rare and that it's highly uncommon for them to survive. so sorry for your loss..

thank you! With it being so rare I almost wish I would've just left them alone!!

 

[2crazyflockers]

I don't have any direct experience with a double yolker in incubation, but I would think that maybe one chick gets more nutrition than the other and is bigger/stronger and does the work pipping and zipping. But that's just a guess.

that would make sense! They were both soo cute!!

 

[2crazyflockers]

I have another question if anyone has the time or patience!!! How long can a duckling stay in its shell with a small external pip?