HELP!!!!! Duckling in distress!

[Lacrystol]

I also want to add that I have been stimulating them by playing this video

on my cell phone and holding the speaker end over the vent hole. It definitely gets them moving!

That's a GREAT video I use it all the time. LOL Really gets them going,

 

[Amanda39]

Nemo has died. Ok, how to I explain this. Picture an egg, and you candle it, and you see a huge air cell from the fat end of the egg down to almost the middle of the egg. That egg is sitting in the bator. Having not touched the egg, I happened to find an external pip underneath or the opposite side of the air cell when I looked real quick upon removing other ducklings that hatched. His beak could be seen. This was yesterday. There has been no change for 24 hours and now his breathing looks labored. So, I felt I needed to intervene. I broke away a small portion of shell over the air cell. The membrane was all white that covered Nemo. I dapped a bit of water to check for blood vessels and it was clear! So I broke off all the shell over the air cell area and tested for veins with water. Completely clear. So, I said, forget this, I'm breaking him out if he has absorbed all his blood. He was still peeping. Slowly and carefully I broke him out, testing with water on the membrane. All was fine until I reached his butt area, I was so careful, then I saw blood and I stopped. It was too late. He died immediately. I was so upset. After his passing, I completely took him out of his shell. His yolk was completely absorbed. He was beautiful. But I found all these big blood clots stuck inside the shell! I have been seeing them since 14 days in the incubator! I knew there were blood clots! He was never meant to make it, and I feel bad that I killed him, but ultimately, he wouldn't have made it. Poor Nemo!I have one left in the bator. It's peeping and breathing fine. I don't dare touch that one though, it's membrane is filled with blood vessels! I can see them! It's rough hatching eggs. So far I have 5 hatched with one on the way out of 9.

 

[Lacrystol]

Nemo has died. Ok, how to I explain this. Picture an egg, and you candle it, and you see a huge air cell from the fat end of the egg down to almost the middle of the egg. That egg is sitting in the bator. Having not touched the egg, I happened to find an external pip underneath or the opposite side of the air cell when I looked real quick upon removing other ducklings that hatched. His beak could be seen. This was yesterday. There has been no change for 24 hours and now his breathing looks labored. So, I felt I needed to intervene. I broke away a small portion of shell over the air cell. The membrane was all white that covered Nemo. I dapped a bit of water to check for blood vessels and it was clear! So I broke off all the shell over the air cell area and tested for veins with water. Completely clear. So, I said, forget this, I'm breaking him out if he has absorbed all his blood. He was still peeping. Slowly and carefully I broke him out, testing with water on the membrane. All was fine until I reached his butt area, I was so careful, then I saw blood and I stopped. It was too late. He died immediately. I was so upset. After his passing, I completely took him out of his shell. His yolk was completely absorbed. He was beautiful. But I found all these big blood clots stuck inside the shell! I have been seeing them since 14 days in the incubator! I knew there were blood clots! He was never meant to make it, and I feel bad that I killed him, but ultimately, he wouldn't have made it. Poor Nemo!I have one left in the bator. It's peeping and breathing fine. I don't dare touch that one though, it's membrane is filled with blood vessels! I can see them! It's rough hatching eggs. So far I have 5 hatched with one on the way out of 9.

Sorry to here that, Don't look at it as you killed him more like a Learning experience.. Was he upside down or was he at the Air cell?

 

[Lacrystol]

Nemo has died. Ok, how to I explain this. Picture an egg, and you candle it, and you see a huge air cell from the fat end of the egg down to almost the middle of the egg. That egg is sitting in the bator. Having not touched the egg, I happened to find an external pip underneath or the opposite side of the air cell when I looked real quick upon removing other ducklings that hatched. His beak could be seen. This was yesterday. There has been no change for 24 hours and now his breathing looks labored. So, I felt I needed to intervene. I broke away a small portion of shell over the air cell. The membrane was all white that covered Nemo. I dapped a bit of water to check for blood vessels and it was clear! So I broke off all the shell over the air cell area and tested for veins with water. Completely clear. So, I said, forget this, I'm breaking him out if he has absorbed all his blood. He was still peeping. Slowly and carefully I broke him out, testing with water on the membrane. All was fine until I reached his butt area, I was so careful, then I saw blood and I stopped. It was too late. He died immediately. I was so upset. After his passing, I completely took him out of his shell. His yolk was completely absorbed. He was beautiful. But I found all these big blood clots stuck inside the shell! I have been seeing them since 14 days in the incubator! I knew there were blood clots! He was never meant to make it, and I feel bad that I killed him, but ultimately, he wouldn't have made it. Poor Nemo!I have one left in the bator. It's peeping and breathing fine. I don't dare touch that one though, it's membrane is filled with blood vessels! I can see them! It's rough hatching eggs. So far I have 5 hatched with one on the way out of 9.

Here's a little tip for you:.

When the Air cell Falls to one side, this is called Dipping, this happens Three days before hatching.

I think from what I read he was upside down. If so, you don't open or work with them at the air cell, all new ball game. Upside downers are treated differently because they are trying to hatch differently, I wish you had let me know you were working on him, I could have helped you..

Do you have a pic of the blood clot, I would love to see what you are talking about. Blood has to continusly flow if it doesn't because it's blocked from a blood clot, it does end the process.. seeing it with my own eyes, could give me a different perspective.

 

[Amanda39]

He was completely up side down. I almost threw his egg away last week from all the dark blood clots I could see in his shell when I candled. I could see clear fluid, which was weird because non of the other ducklings had clear fluid when I candled them, with veins leading to 2 or 3 dark blobs not even connected to the baby. I only held on to it because I saw a little movement. When he pipped externally, he broke his own blood vessels as well. But the ones I'm talking about were WAY early on. Also, this egg was considerable smaller than the rest.

No, I don't have a picture, and I asked for a link on how to do this or help. I had not seen a respond from you and his breathing was labored. So, I tried to save him. I can't believe his yolk was completely absorbed and still had that one vein at the butt. I kept checking. I had no blood until the last tiny piece of membrane. I feel awful.

 

[Rowsdower]

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.

 

[Amanda39]

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.

 

[Rowsdower]

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.

Not to be crass, but it sounds like you probably did him a favor. I wouldn't be too hard on myself if I were you. It's no fun watching them linger on only to pass anyway.

 

[Amanda39]

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.

 

[Lacrystol]

He was completely up side down. I almost threw his egg away last week from all the dark blood clots I could see in his shell when I candled. I could see clear fluid, which was weird because non of the other ducklings had clear fluid when I candled them, with veins leading to 2 or 3 dark blobs not even connected to the baby. I only held on to it because I saw a little movement. When he pipped externally, he broke his own blood vessels as well. But the ones I'm talking about were WAY early on. Also, this egg was considerable smaller than the rest.

No, I don't have a picture, and I asked for a link on how to do this or help. I had not seen a respond from you and his breathing was labored. So, I tried to save him. I can't believe his yolk was completely absorbed and still had that one vein at the butt. I kept checking. I had no blood until the last tiny piece of membrane. I feel awful.

I don't have a link, I would have walked you threw it. It's OK, again Not your fault it's a learning experience, you can only get better at this not worst..