Help - need advice - hatching duckling

[BountyCze]

Hello,I would like some advice, I am turning to you with a gloomy mood, we will most likely hatch only one duckling from 12 eggs, it is the 31st. External pipped yesterday at 8 o'clock. Now the status is on photo. He is trying to enlarge one hole, I read that he should try to make a hole all the way around - also if this is his 31 day, should I approach it normally? I would hate for him to die too... of exhausting.Please advise what to do.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Carefully pick the shell away, and stop IMMEDIATELY if you see blood.

 

[KathiQuacks]

With a hole that size, I imagine baby will hatch quite soon. I’ve had some pip in a small area like that before pipping in a big circle. You can wait and watch for now if you’d like.

At this point, I’d only intervene if they sound distressed / are stuck and can’t pip anymore.

 

[BountyCze]

For now i will wait, and if he will not hatch by night i will try to help him.

Following question is, if he will make it, i will probably have to find ducklings to buy so he wont be lonely. Would they accept him if they would be 4-7 days older or would they try to hurt it?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I would suggest intervening now but not by chipping. Instead, you can very gently take your finger nail and push in to break the shell in the shape of a zip. So, you are making a broken shell band from the opening around the egg like a belt. Often when they make a hole like that they are unable to move in the egg and need help. Then, put him back and let him push himself out and hatch. If he seems to be trying but not getting anywhere you can tear the membrane closest the hole as long as there is no blood. If you see any blood stop. They do so much better if they push themselves out but you are saving them the energy needed to hammer out if the shell.

As for question about adding a friend, you want to set up a divider in the brooder so they can see each other but not touch. Within a day it two they can go together.

 

[BountyCze]

So did helped him, and from my amateur view he was so large so big, he was wrapped in himself and could move, i helped him from shell, and now he is drying in incubator. I looked in other eggs and one of them made a hole on opposite side, he was also too large What did i do to them. What did i did wrong?

My settings (which I looked up on the internet from multiple sources)
Temperature: 37.5 C Humidity until day 25: 55-60%
From day 25 I increased the humidity to 70-75% and left the temperature the same (37.5 C)
On day 15 I candled the eggs. And they all looked perfectly fine.
I rotated the eggs 3 times a day. (Stopped by te day 25)
I never opened the incubator after day 25.
I did not sprayed them nor "cool" them during whole incubation, because i though it not necessary.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

So did helped him, and from my amateur view he was so large so big, he was wrapped in himself and could move, i helped him from shell, and now he is drying in incubator. I looked in other eggs and one of them made a hole on opposite side, he was also too large What did i do to them. What did i did wrong?

My settings (which I looked up on the internet from multiple sources)
Temperature: 37.5 C Humidity until day 25: 55-60%
From day 25 I increased the humidity to 70-75% and left the temperature the same (37.5 C)
On day 15 I candled the eggs. And they all looked perfectly fine.
I rotated the eggs 3 times a day. (Stopped by te day 25)
I never opened the incubator after day 25.
I did not sprayed them nor "cool" them during whole incubation, because i though it not necessary.

It’s ok. Maybe your thermometer malfunctioned, or maybe the eggs just sucked. I have chickens I don’t hatch from anymore, because they just have a high mortality rate and oddly shaped eggs. If you do everything right, sometimes bad stuff still happens.

Anyway, can we see a picture of your duck?

 

[BountyCze]

It’s ok. Maybe your thermometer malfunctioned, or maybe the eggs just sucked. I have chickens I don’t hatch from anymore, because they just have a high mortality rate and oddly shaped eggs. If you do everything right, sometimes bad stuff still happens.

Anyway, can we see a picture of your duck?

Well yeah, hope he survives, he tries to lift his head but still struggling, never done it before so is it normal?

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Well yeah, hope he survives, he tries to lift his head but still struggling, never done it before so is it normal?

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Give it a day to figure out walking, and it’s probably going to be ok. If he doesn’t start walking, there are braces and slings you can make to help it. It can go play in the brooder when it’s feathers are dry.