HELP!!!!! Duckling in distress!

[Lacrystol]

I'm thinking that perhaps what the OP was seeing were areas where the chick had nicked a blood vessel trying to pip/turn around. So they weren't actually "blood clots" in the clinical sense, but coagulated blood trapped under the membrane.

I'm thinking he was reataining water.. Wet. usually when they retain water like that, it does look like blood clots even though it is not.. When I read he was sitting in some water under the shell, that was the first clue but I couldn't get confirmation of if he was sitting in water because of the bator or if the water came out of the shell.

 

[Rowsdower]

Makes me never want to hatch again.

I can't tell you how many times I thought this in the beginning...I am sure we all have. Lacrystol is right, you can only get better at this.

 

[Lacrystol]

This duckling has had dark blood clots since 14 days in the incubator. I could see veins leading to it, it looked black upon candling and there was clear fluid around it. There has been an issue from the beginning. I didn't see new clot recently . I almost threw the egg away 2 weeks ago because it was nothing like I had ever seen. I thought it died a long time ago.

Didn't you say the egg was underneath some wetness? I never got clarification if he was sitting in water or if the water came from the egg? If came from the egg, then the blood clots would make more since to me it's not actual blood clots, it's actually the thick accumuating water blocking, well not exactly blocking, humm it's kind of hard to discribe but I believe I know what you mean by the blood clots now..

 

[Amanda39]

I just have such a passion for life. I have an automatic turner on my incubator. I have never used it. I prefer to hand turn. Because I talk to them when I do. I let this little life down, and now I'm crying and I should have never incubated. I had 100% success rate last year. This is my 2nd year hatching. I can't tell you how upset I am.

 

[Amanda39]

What I meant about the wetness is, when I saw there were no external pip marks I went to pick up the egg and felt something wet, what it was was the baby had externally pipped underneath and that's the wetness I felt.

 

[Amanda39]

I felt the open pip instead of shell, that was the wetness.

 

[Lacrystol]

Thank you. But he looks so perfect. And I really tried hard for him and now I"m really upset that I killed this poor sweet baby. Makes me never want to hatch again.

OH NO you can't think that way, It's not your fault, he was in bad shape from the beginning. hatching eggs is nothing but a learning process, we do it so that we can duplicate Momma's, You should be patting yourself on the back, Look how far you got. I have 1 week to go and I have already Lost 11 babies. i'm having a major sticky issue here. GRRRR.

but here's another little tip:

When you lay them down, keep the large end up higher then the smaller end, this will help with avoiding upside downers..

 

[Lacrystol]

What I meant about the wetness is, when I saw there were no external pip marks I went to pick up the egg and felt something wet, what it was was the baby had externally pipped underneath and that's the wetness I felt.

So there wasn't actually water or wetness, it was just his external hole??

 

[Lacrystol]

I can't tell you how many times I thought this in the beginning...I am sure we all have. Lacrystol is right, you can only get better at this.

Hatching is like a Disease, YOU CAN"T STOP. LOL but you learn from it and i bet you don't make the same mistake TWICE..

 

[Lacrystol]

I felt the open pip instead of shell, that was the wetness.

OK, I got cha now. LOL, the egg being wet would tell a lot but doesn't seem to be the case in your case..