Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[subhanalah]

There are still some fine ones there which were the big dark ones yesterday.
As I've never done this before my concern is if I do it now and they aren't ready, will it cease any absorption they have left to do?
And I'm also afraid I'll cause a bleed.
Second guessing my every thought after my first attempt went so badly.

if you're not sure, waiting is the answer generally. Just keep the membrane moist and check ever hour or two.

 

[MuscovyLover]

if you're not sure, waiting is the answer generally. Just keep the membrane moist and check ever hour or two.

Yesterday morning I started out with every hour and have stretched it out to every one and a half. It's been a long night lol.
I'm due to moisten them again now so I'll take another pic.
Both eggs are at the same stage and had the same issue so I've just been taking pics of one to track it's progress.

 

[MuscovyLover]

And I can't wait to see pics of the little welsh harlequin!
Have never seen one before :-D

 

[MuscovyLover]

I've wiped some back away from its face with a cotton bud.
I'm not sure if my thinking is right but I want to go up and to the left a little in this pic so it can get its head free then work itself out from there but it looks like that foot is going to be in the way :-/

 

[subhanalah]

That's how one of mine looked this morning. It's out and walking around now

 

[casportpony]

Looks like many of mine with the foot over the head. FWIW, mine can't get out when like that. If I were you and didn't see any veins I'd help it out, but only if there was no blood!

-Kathy

 

[MuscovyLover]

That's how one of mine looked this morning. It's out and walking around now

Looks like many of mine with the foot over the head. FWIW, mine can't get out when like that. If I were you and didn't see any veins I'd help it out, but only if there was no blood!

-Kathy

I went to wet the membrane just before and the little tacker has that foot almost all the way out!
Contortionists!! It's amazing how they do this
I just peeled a bit more of the shell away from where it's head is and moistened the whole exposed area and put it back in the bator.
I'm hoping it'll do the rest itself. The inside of the area it's still in has brown slimy looking blood like the two that died last time did so I don't want to peel away any more membrane. I'm concerned that it shouldn't be like that?
I'll just check again in an hour.

 

[MuscovyLover]

I just helped it get it's head past that membrane because it was really struggling and the little tacker still has some yolk sac there :-(
Does this mean it too will die? Oh no! I'm so worried.
I put it in a plastic container so it can keep absorbing but will it?
Here's a few pics. Sorry. I couldn't get a clear one of inside the egg and didn't want to muck around too long before putting it back in the bator.

@subhanalah and @casportpony any advice?

 

[MuscovyLover]

So if anybody is curious the little one is out.
There was a small ball of that dark brown snotty blood still on its back but it would NOT stay put in that shell!
It was chirping and pulling so hard to get out.
The dark snotty blood was still attached to it though.
There was also some extremely bright yellow stuff attched in all of that too. Only a little amount but it was fighting so hard to get out that it was pulling the part that was attached to it, and it was stretching the fine clear cord from inside its belly button (I assume that's what it is called?) so I took a panicked plunge.
I put some iodine 1% on some scissors and cut it off about a cm from its body then put some of the iodine on its tummy where the cord was.
Back in the bator now having a rest by the looks of it.
I'm really praying I did the right thing here.

 

[subhanalah]

It sounds like its just the clear connective tissue and no blood vessels.
Good job
I wonder what makes them have that brown snotty stuff? The last few of mine had increasing amounts of it, the later it was in hatching. (Last one had the most)

I believe the bright yellow stuff is actually urates? That's what it looks like to me anyway.