Hands on hatching and help

[mcolbert]

Way too early to help a duckling.  Can't tell much from the pic, but looks like plenty of opening for it to breathe.  You have to go with your gut, but ducklings take longer to absorb the yolk, and you really don't want one out of the shell with a big unabsorbed yolk. 

Thanks, I did peel the tiniest section of dried membrane. It is alive but not positioned properly. Last time I had to help all mine that weren't correctly positioned. After how many hours should I start helping?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Oh! I understand. So I was half right.
Guess you will have to make something, or just risk leaving them while the next set hatches. If you are ordering a fix kit, maybe you will only have to go through one hatch phase with younger eggs in there too.

Wait an extra day for lockdown? So maybe a couple extra days of higher humidity won't bother the others?

Thank you! I candled them the next day and there were some that had died from the veins busting. But I was excited to see moat were still alive!!
Thanks I put tape over a few holes and it helped with the humidity. I had to stay on top of it though so was checking every 30min to an hour....I have tubing from when my dad had oxygen so I cut a piece to fit and syringe the water in
My last hatch I had to turn the bator up to reach the same 99/100 after taking the turner out, so I had that marked where it finally held the temp. I turned it to that mark! :/ lesson learned I will never just assume every hatch is the same!!
Yes warm water and I add with a syringe. I will have to try the rocks next time. Thanks
Well my turner motor went out on my first hatch so we removed the motor and just manually turn the eggs with the turner. (Found a replacement on line! Ordering before next hatch!) so the motor wasnt in there on this hatch. I messed up and turned the nob to the line I had marked for hatching last hatch. I figured it was the same each hatch :/ Big operator error

Ok so UPDATE on how the hatch went!!
After my error and thinking they all were going to die 18 of the 30 showed signs of living!!!
Hatch day day 21 was yesterday! Saturday I noticed 5 eggs had internally pipped! 3 days before they were due to hatch.. Sunday just 2 had outer pipped and 2 had died! So any egg that was inner pipped and alive I helped outer pip them!! Monday I had my first hatch..it was quick but it had a tiny bit of yolk attached. By Monday evening 14 had hatched! (From bator #1 with the heat spike) so 14/30 From those 14, 4 have leg issues.
#1 EE was splayed leg so I took vet wrap and made a splint and it is moving around nicely!
#2 EE hatched but its legs wouldnt go under it. They would go over the head and he would flap and spin in circles. I figured it wouldnt hurt to put the vet wrap splint on him as well just to see if it would help. At first he flopped around but now he is walking around the bator and doing very well!!

#3 POLISH it has curled toes and falls over to the left and lays on its back kicking its feet. I have put the same splint on and it straightens out the feet but it falls to that left side. Not really sure what else I can do for it?!?! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

#4 I noticed doesnt stand up and walk it creaps along. Its feet also turn in and toes are crooked. I put the splint on it as well and it is getting around pretty good.

Other then that I am happy that I didnt loose them all!!
Only 2 hatched from bator 2 (digital lg) so 16 all together! Thanks for your guys help and guidence!!!!
5 EE's and 11 Polish

Congrats on the hatchers.

 

[WVduckchick]

Thanks, I did peel the tiniest section of dried membrane. It is alive but not positioned properly. Last time I had to help all mine that weren't correctly positioned. After how many hours should I start helping?

Sorry you didn't get a reply today. Any update on your duckling?

 

[azkc]

Hello all. Just found your thread and read the first page and thought this seemed like a good place for me. Will go back and read more at beginning soon.

I have only ever assisted once and in a fairly minor way and have been prepared to assist twice when they pipped the wrong end, but they both made it out on their own.

Have done 4 hatches so far & will be setting some more eggs around 9th or 10th March so they will hatch when my grandsons are visiting. Hopefully no assists will be necessary. This time there will be no brooding in my back bathroom as I am going to try out the Mama Heating Pad method (thanks Blooie). Eight times is enough already!!

Back to reading your thread and learning more.

 

[azkc]

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Yes, a malpositioned pip has not had the +\-24 hours of internal pip time to breath oxygen and absorb yolk. Their external pip is equivalent to an internal pip on a correctly positioned chick. I've had about 50/50 malpositions zip on their own, the other half need help. But I always give them about 30-36 hours to make progress on their own. As long as they can breath, like you said they *should be ok to sit. And I've used corn starch with good success at stopping bleeding.

Thanks. Great explanation.

 

[mcolbert]

Sorry you didn't get a reply today. Any update on your duckling?

The one I wrote about I'm still helping, a little at a time. It's doing well. I have 2 that have hatched 3 more that are starting to zip and all but 2 that have pipped. I am currently helping 3 though. I got to one just in time. The membrane was just starting to stick to its bill.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Hello all. Just found your thread and read the first page and thought this seemed like a good place for me. Will go back and read more at beginning soon.

I have only ever assisted once and in a fairly minor way and have been prepared to assist twice when they pipped the wrong end, but they both made it out on their own.

Have done 4 hatches so far & will be setting some more eggs around 9th or 10th March so they will hatch when my grandsons are visiting. Hopefully no assists will be necessary. This time there will be no brooding in my back bathroom as I am going to try out the Mama Heating Pad method (thanks Blooie). Eight times is enough already!!

Back to reading your thread and learning more.

Welcome to the thread.

 

[Lilmissesmom]

Trader Joe's sells fertile eggs, and someone told me Whole Foods does too but I don't have anything to back that up. There is a thread on BYC about hatching Trader Joe eggs - you should be able to put it in the search box and find it.  Good luck!

this is my Trader Joe chick TJ and I have 2 due to hatch tommorow

 

[AmyLynn2374]

this is my Trader Joe chick TJ and I have 2 due to hatch tommorow

Awe what a cutie.

I have 15 silkie eggs about to hit 2 weeks, and 6 about to hit 1 week. I have two wonky air cells on the 6, so I don't have extremely high hopes for them. I've collected 7 eggs so far for my set after the first ones are hatched. Hopefully I can more than double that this week and fertility goes back up.

I'm getting 14 eggs a day from my standards, yay! I need to check fertility on my young Spitzhaubens, cause I'd like to advertise for them as well.

Tomorrow is my boy's bday so I traced air cells tonight because we're going to be pretty busy tomorrow.

 

[dcba flock]

Any scissor beak experience/help would be great! I have a chick going on 3-4 weeks old now I didn't notice had scissor beak until about 2 weeks ago it wasn't obvious plus it was a very large messy (sticky) chick hatch w/ incubator issues. He/she has obviously been eating drinking etc and doesn't appear to be failing to thrive or anything however it appears to be getting worse/more pronounced the jaw will move/slide back if I move it into "normal" place. I don't want to cull of course but I would appreciate long term experience on this issue and how older birds fair etc. thank you poor little Popeye!