Hands on hatching and help

[Pyxis]

So strange I've done the dry hatch with these I can't understand why the humidity is so high. I have been thinking about assisting I don't know where to start though as I usually poke a hole in the aircell but one doesn't have an aircell?

Are you candling from the fat end of the egg? Can you post pictures? If they really have no air cell at all and were laid that way, the chicks will probably externally pip immediately instead of internally pipping, like what happens with a malpositioned chick. If it's a humidity issue, there is a risk of drowning. But even a freshly laid egg has an air cell, so you should be seeing some kind of air cell unless for whatever reason they just didn't have them when they were laid.

 

[newchickmama91]

Are you candling from the fat end of the egg? Can you post pictures? If they really have no air cell at all and were laid that way, the chicks will probably externally pip immediately instead of internally pipping, like what happens with a malpositioned chick. If it's a humidity issue, there is a risk of drowning. But even a freshly laid egg has an air cell, so you should be seeing some kind of air cell unless for whatever reason they just didn't have them when they were laid.

Yeah from the fat end. I poked a safety hole in to see and I was right no aircell it seems the veins are everywhere in the egg the chick is really active still absorbing but it's the strangest thing. I'll try and take a photo see what everyone thinks I've personally never seen it! These are shipped I forgot to mention that

 

[Erka97]

Hello hands on hatchers!
So, I've got an emu in need of assistance. My first hatched mostly on its own yesterday, and since then I made safety holes in my other two eggs. One was dead; died a while ago but there is no candling for emus, while the other is still alive. It's now internally pipped, however it didn't do anything else for about twelve hours, causing the membrane to stick to it. I've removed what I can without much blood loss and made sure the rest is moist. The egg itself seems to be producing a substance almost like sap, though. What is this and is it harmful? The chick doesn't exactly breathe regularly, am I right to assume this means its vessels are still providing oxygen to it?
For now it is sitting in the incubator, waiting.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Hello hands on hatchers!
So, I've got an emu in need of assistance. My first hatched mostly on its own yesterday, and since then I made safety holes in my other two eggs. One was dead; died a while ago but there is no candling for emus, while the other is still alive. It's now internally pipped, however it didn't do anything else for about twelve hours, causing the membrane to stick to it. I've removed what I can without much blood loss and made sure the rest is moist. The egg itself seems to be producing a substance almost like sap, though. What is this and is it harmful? The chick doesn't exactly breathe regularly, am I right to assume this means its vessels are still providing oxygen to it?
For now it is sitting in the incubator, waiting.

I would definitely give it more time if it's veining, but other than that I've got nothing. Clueless about emu hatching.

 

[WVduckchick]

So strange I've done the dry hatch with these I can't understand why the humidity is so high. I have been thinking about assisting I don't know where to start though as I usually poke a hole in the aircell but one doesn't have an aircell?

so you're sure the chick didn't just break into the air cell and fill up the egg?

Hello hands on hatchers!
So, I've got an emu in need of assistance. My first hatched mostly on its own yesterday, and since then I made safety holes in my other two eggs. One was dead; died a while ago but there is no candling for emus, while the other is still alive. It's now internally pipped, however it didn't do anything else for about twelve hours, causing the membrane to stick to it. I've removed what I can without much blood loss and made sure the rest is moist. The egg itself seems to be producing a substance almost like sap, though. What is this and is it harmful? The chick doesn't exactly breathe regularly, am I right to assume this means its vessels are still providing oxygen to it?
For now it is sitting in the incubator, waiting.

@casportpony know anything about emu hatching or anyone who does??

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony know anything about emu hatching or anyone who does??

The only person I know of is:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/members/yinepu.96297/
but she hasn't been online in a couple of years. I would search for all article, threads and posts by her:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/emu-hatch-2013.64737/

 

[moomoodiddy]

So strange I've done the dry hatch with these I can't understand why the humidity is so high. I have been thinking about assisting I don't know where to start though as I usually poke a hole in the aircell but one doesn't have an aircell?

Do you have anything measuring the humidity? I would just start breaking the egg along where the chick is already starting to zip, or was going to. It may already be dead.

 

[casportpony]

Can the green be sanded off to allow better candling?

 

[Erka97]

That would let bacteria infect them more easily, and they'd lose more water too.
That chick died, I think it was underdeveloped or something, its lungs never did work right.

 

[newchickmama91]

Do you have anything measuring the humidity? I would just start breaking the egg along where the chick is already starting to zip, or was going to. It may already be dead.

I made a safety hole to see and there's no liquid in there the chick is still absorbing so going to wait until it's fully absorbed. Lost one in the night due to the liquid I must have humidity issues