Help! First time hatching a duckling and it has weird stuff attached!

elliebear15

Hatching
5 Years
Aug 7, 2014
4
0
7
Lancaster, UK
Hi, I am hoping you can all help me, with my duckling who has just hatched now.
He pipped a couple of days ago, but couldn't turn to do the zipping so I helped him out in the end.
He has a bit of a pot belly, his navel is slightly bloody - we know he has hatched on day 25-26 instead of day 28 - and retrospectively realise the temp was too high. The incubator is pretty good but the room was getting too hot sometimes.
When he hatched, he still had membranes attached to his belly.
Most of it was brown stringy stuff that I am happy looks quite normal (I have seen them before with chick hatches, tho' this is my first duck hatch). Although I have never seen it attached before. But mixed with the brown membrane is a little yolk - not much, and it looks pale yellow and cooked, like a bit of scrambled egg.
There was no blood at all. The inside of the egg shell was pink in places with the odd vein as thin as a hair strand.
Is this scrambled egg stuff normal? I thought it might be un-absorbed yolk.
Should I take off the membranes or just leave them?
He is just resting in the incubator now, I read somewhere to wrap him in a damp paper towel so the yolk (if it is that) can carry on absorbing.
Was this the right thing to do?
Thanks for any help and advice you can give.
Ellie
Lancashire, UK.
 
400


Did it look like this? If so, it's completely normal :) I call them egg bogies!
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom