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[Sally Sunshine]

Well, one of the two Call ducks just died in the shell. This is how the other one is looking. It doesn't look anywhere close to ready to me yet, and I'm afraid it's not going to make it either.

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Baby duckling is getting weak. I got the membrane off of its head, but when I got closer down to the side it started bleeding. I really hope I didn't cause it harm. It's somewhat sticky too.

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One of my blue runners hatched this morning, looks healthy. This is my first duck hatch. Friday has 3 more sibli gs pipping.

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I'm back! If this little Call duck make it (I don't want to jinx it), should I give it Corid or something to prevent cocci? I've never done this with my chicks, but it was suggested recently, and I wondered if I should do it with this duckling.

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here are a couple of pics for now... will send more when they are cozy in their brooder... thanks all sooo much for responding soooo quickly

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Updated pics of my 2 that hatched 1 & 2 days ago:
The one in back was the first hatched
The small one I named Friday (hatched on Friday) I am so creative, huh?
Friday is saying "It's good to be a duck"

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[Sally Sunshine]

Originally Posted by campingshaws

Hi Sally!

Here's my bator of rocks:


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Originally Posted by Chaos18


Bubbles this is current setup. Rocks are in troughs under the wire.


me thinks a ton more stones are in order for heat sinks
a nice full layer on the bottom and just using cups on top until lockdown would probably hold amazingly well

FLAT LARGE ROCKS

Bottles of water

Wrapping a bator for steadier temps post #25454
KEEPING MOLD and BACTERIAL from growing in water WELLS during incubation post #1644
USING a aquarium pump to humidify incubator Begin post #2028 & Flow control valve post #2054
Trick to raising humidity in egg trays by adding small containers to egg slot! post #42512

 

[Pensmaster]

ONLY like 2...

Too bad on the hatch.

It looks like of the 8 surviving NY HAL 5- 6 are roosters 2 hens of that ones not looking too good. Not developing tail feathers and small. It's one I helped has alway been small. Even as egg. And it appears I have SFH and Altsteirer. Still hoping for pair now of each.

 

[kwhites634]

I wish I could get a nice rooster. After I process this one I won't have one anymore(at least until my chicks are grown). I'm not sure if it's letting them free range that's making them aggressive towards humans but it looks as though I'm going to have to figure something out. I can't have him hurting anyone. He attacked my mother and she walked away so this one already thinks it can attack people. He will live on here as long as I do though because I don't think you can change the screen name. Anyways I'm sorry I kinda just needed to vent a little

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No need to modify your screen name; modify your rooster's behavior, instead. I also have a single rooster who bears watching, but I refuse to let an animal dictate my movements, unless it wants to make the mortgage payments

My guy has tried me, as well as my wife, a few times. I got to where I was half expecting him to do something stupid, so I tried to be prepared. The last time he rushed me I timed it just right & launched him tail-over-tin-cup through the air with a left foot; end of problem...for me, anyway. Not too long afterward he came at my wife; a big mistake. DW happened to be gathering kindling wood at the time, and a small chunk of wood sailing through the air toward Mr. Rooster changed his mind quick....direct hit.

He still bears watching, but has, for now anyway, learned a measure of respect for the "hands that feed him". He's going to be replaced this Spring, however, in favor of another, more docile animal, which has already been selected; just a matter of the weather cooperating long enough to go get him.

Good luck

 

[mrleeroy]

No need to modify your screen name; modify your rooster's behavior, instead. I also have a single rooster who bears watching, but I refuse to let an animal dictate my movements, unless it wants to make the mortgage payments

My guy has tried me, as well as my wife, a few times. I got to where I was half expecting him to do something stupid, so I tried to be prepared. The last time he rushed me I timed it just right & launched him tail-over-tin-cup through the air with a left foot; end of problem...for me, anyway. Not too long afterward he came at my wife; a big mistake. DW happened to be gathering kindling wood at the time, and a small chunk of wood sailing through the air toward Mr. Rooster changed his mind quick....direct hit.

He still bears watching, but has, for now anyway, learned a measure of respect for the "hands that feed him". He's going to be replaced this Spring, however, in favor of another, more docile animal, which has already been selected; just a matter of the weather cooperating long enough to go get him.

Good luck

As much as I would like to have and keep a rooster, I'll probably just have to go ahead and process this one. I want to breed his breed but unfortunately he is poor breeding stock. He's OK for a mixed flock but he has to go. Neighbors are close and have small children. Can't have him attacking one of them. It's either constant confinement or dinner

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I mean this in the nicest way possible, so keep that in mind as you read this... In most cases I won't disagree with what a vet has advised a pet owner to do, but in this case I will, because I have seen way to many people kill their birds by bathing them. IMO, the rooster pictured here is not stable enough to be bathed. It's true that wounds need to be cleaned, which usually involves irrigating them with sterile water or saline, but this should be done after the bird has been stabilized.

-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine here are the dirty eggs I was talking about:



-Kathy

I was planning on incubating them and was hoping to get some advice of how best to proceed.

-Kathy

Heck, maybe I'll try incubating a few without cleaning them.

-Kathy

I would probably clean them, not for the incubation and bacteria, but at hatch and those cute things running all over them.

Urgent question... just took a closer look and think I have some problems.

1) This look like an away from air cell trying pip.


2) This looks like a wrong ender trying to pip,


3) This one might also be a wrong ender.


Just wondering what you would do... In the past I have just let them try to hatch on their own, but they always died, and about 50% will die if I do intervene.

-Kathy

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-Kathy

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Compared to other eggs they look malpostioned. Not sure about the yolk space because my candler isn't very bright.

-Kathy

Here's #1:




-Kathy

Number 3




-Kathy

Number 2

Originally Posted by casportpony

Lol, okay! The one that was stuck a few days ago hatched, but died two days later.

Two of the three that pipped on their own are zipping as I type.
one of the three that pipped on it's own , pipped just below the air cell, so I wasn't too worried, but then I realized that it's actually upside down.



The other three are still alive, but I think I'm gonna give them another 24 hours because I think there are still too many veins. So that leaves five... one of the five is dead, not sure about the other four.

-Kathy
Definitely need try another batch and this time install the air correctly.


Z = zipping
M = malpo
? = not sure if it's alive
X = dead

-Kathy

Quote: Internal pip at day 30 does seem a little too early, but I haven't had much success hatching them, so don't know how unusual that is.. Have had peafowl pip internally at day 24, so maybe it's still withing the normal range? What I can tell you is that the two of mine that pipped into the air cell had no problem pipping the shell and are zipping normally.

-Kathy

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than the large end of the egg when set in the

incubator. An embryo orients during incuba-
tion so that the head develops toward the
large end of the egg where the air cell is
located. A chick’s head can orient away from
the air cell of the egg if the small end is
higher than the large end during incubation.
An embryo oriented in the wrong direction
will not hatch.

Could be...

-Kathy

https://books.google.com/books?id=o...onepage&q=duck hatching eggs vertical&f=false

you know the timing of the others at hatch from internals to externals to when they were ready and out.

how do these fall in that???? there nostriles are free and clear of fluids? pics help us Im not sure what you are asking me... sorry.
The 1st egg hatched in 19 hours from when I first saw movement and then a pipping/crack.
The 2nd egg hatched in 36 hours from when I first saw pipping/crack in shell.
Is this what you are asking?
The 4 eggs that are pipping (not advanced movement/pipping in 10 + hours) now have been pipping for 2.5 and 3 days now!!
the egg on the right is the one that has some oozing (for lack of a better word) coming out of a crack, and looks dried now!

6th is out!

This is the umbilicus of number 4:






-Kathy

That looks like it's insides are coming out. I read that you should gently push everything back in and sew it closed?????? Ewwww... Or, is that really just an umbilical cord?
That's just the yolk, so no need to push on it. Have some pictures I need to show you...

Here is one that wasn't as bad:
Here is one of a duckling that didn't fully absorb.








Here is the same duckling two days later:

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@Jessimom , here it is 7 hours later:



@Sally Sunshine , the majority of my wrong enders are trying to pip like this:


Interestingly, I haven't ever seen a foot in the air cell with any of mine.

Quote: I can tell you that the times I have pipped for them, it's been too early, so now I give them 48 hours before I make a safety hole. The only exception is when I see that bruise in the shell, 'cause that means there are malpo'd and highly unlikely to survive if I don't.

This is a Muscovy that tried to pip at the wrong end.



This is the whole I made for it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ping-humidity-in-our-homemade-incubator/0_100

This is actually pretty cheaply genius but not as a incubator.....
BUT for quick simple clean brooders.....
is this stryo healthy air wise?????

 

[casportpony]

Lol, okay! The one that was stuck a few days ago hatched, but died two days later.

Two of the three that pipped on their own are zipping as I type.
one of the three that pipped on it's own , pipped just below the air cell, so I wasn't too worried, but then I realized that it's actually upside down.



The other three are still alive, but I think I'm gonna give them another 24 hours because I think there are still too many veins. So that leaves five... one of the five is dead, not sure about the other four.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ping-humidity-in-our-homemade-incubator/0_100

This is actually pretty cheaply genius but not as a incubator.....
BUT for quick simple clean brooders.....
is this stryo healthy air wise?????

So I thought this might be a good way to make a brooder/hospital cage:
http://www.rainbowparrots.com/brooder.php

-Kathy