HELP! TURKEY EGG FOAMING AROUND PIP!

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[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

Watching! Do you have a picture?

 

[Duckduckchicken32]

How’s your egg?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I've never seen that before, but I'm not a prolific hatcher at all!

When you have time, some photos to document and show us what you see would be good.

Hoping things are going well on your end.

@CluckNDoodle or @Pyxis may be able to recognize something from your description.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It sounds like the eggs didn't lose enough weight during incubation. Usually due to the humidity being too high throughout incubation. Improper turning can also cause this and it can occasionally be due to bacteria as well but since it's both eggs I expect it was the humidity or turning (I have found that turkeys are way more finicky about appropriate turning than chicks)

They may require assistance if that's what you want to do. Some people choose to stay hands off and that's ok too. Assisting isn't for everyone.
The air cell would need to be open while they finish absorbing the blood vessels and yolk to make sure they don't aspirate the fluid and ointment applied to the membrane carefully with a q-tip everywhere it's exposed other than around the beak. Once ready I wouldn't be surprised if they also need assistance hatching because they also become sticky inside the egg preventing them from rotating properly when the humidity is too high. Sometimes this can also cause issues with properly absorbing the yolk as well
If you choose to assist I would highly suggest reading the assisted hatch article if you haven't already.

What kind of incubator are you using? What was the humidity at before and after lockdown? Do you have a secondary hygrometer or only use the one on the incubator?

 

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we don't have a hydrometer on either incubator, unfortunately. The chick that was peeping at me all night died ironically. The stuff bubbled up back around its beak last night and hardened. The other one that I was afraid wouldn't make it is alive, but there is so much stuff stuck around her wing and face it is gonna be extra hard for her to hatch, so we helped her a little. The turning racks in the incubator work very well, they gently sway the eggs slowly throughout the day, and it has a high hatch rate. We had to move these three eggs to another incubator. The eggs we are incubating have a scattered hatch date so we have to move them to another smaller incubator for hatching.

 

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I just read another thread that mentioned waiting till the veins in the egg receeded, I was unaware of this and the veins on the egg are bleeding a little. Is that bad?

 

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The other chick made it the rest of the way out, but with a lot of assistance. Mostly to get her wing unstuck from her face. She is just laying in the incubator now, but she peeps at us if we touch her. Is she gonna make it?

 

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The yellow stuff hardened on the membrane and got it stuck on to her. She is having trouble pushing the egg off. She is very quiet but she is still breathing. Every now and then she will kick a little. Is there anyone there?

 

[Coops Dad]

Give her some time, my last turkey hatch resulted in ONE successful poult hatching and she seemed really weak for several hours. She needed assistance and was also coated with schmoo. I waited a day until after she started eating and drinking before I gently wiped her off with a warm, wet washcloth -water only.