Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[AnimalQuackers]

Kathy - your first photos of your #4 look just like OUR #4....only ours looks drier, I think!! Moisten with what? Saline?

 

[casportpony]

I've had a few die because they were shrink wrapped, but I've also had a few die because I helped.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

OK - we made the littlest hole - and couldn't see a thing but heard peeping, so we gently made the hole bigger (just smaller than a dime) where the air pocket was and her little beak is now sticking out and she is peeping. I don't know what shrinkwrap looks like, but there is a white membrane covering everything but her beak...we can not even see her eyes! The white membrane does look like it is "stuck" more or less to her. We took a video and it's giving me fits trying to upload to this computer, so my husband is upstairs now trying to upload it to his so I can post it. We put her BACK in the incubator, wrapped in a damp washcloth with the hole uncovered facing up...Now what?

Edited to add - It looks REALLY DRY inside the shell!

GRRR OK, listen, They all going to be LATE, why because you had the temp AT 99 it needed to be around 101 - 102 so it was low which WILL delay them.. Now that you have opened them. GRRR, we are going to have to hope they are absorbed. GRR.. I wasn't worried about the 36 or 37 hours and no cracks because I knew they were going to be delayed..

 

[Lacrystol]

Please send me a pic of the ones that you have opened up. Basically now they are accessible to getting a bacteria infection,

 

[Lacrystol]

Please send me a current pic so I can safely let you know what to do next. You needed to leave them alone and give them 24 hours after you made the safe hole, by pealing off more shell then needed to he will most definitely shrink wrap so we will have to act fast...

 

[Lacrystol]

LWAYS ALWAYS give them 24 hours if you decide to make the safe hole and the hole shouldn't be no bigger then the tip of a pen. Safe holes are only so that the duck doesn't run out of air, it also helps them fill there lungs up with oxygen to get larger making it easier for them to get out and finish absorbing. usually there's no need to help them after this point unless an extremely large amount of time has past, like 24 hours or more. Then and only then is when you would need to help a safe hole baby..

Anything bigger then the tip of a pen will cause shrink wrap and from there help is mandatory..


The problem we have now is by opening and shutting the lockdown bator you have risked the other eggs. Like I had stated before it's best to lose one rather then a whole group of them...

 

[Lacrystol]

But we can save this one so please as soon as you can send me a pic so I can see where she is at...

I understand the excitement and the impationist, I get that but it's also a costly price.. One false move with end the process in a heart beat...

So now that I'm done blabbing, let's try and fix this problem before we lose her...

One finally thing, ducks do take a longer time to pop out of there shell, they are not like chickens where they will just rush off to escape.... Ducks like to take there time, make sure there fur is in the right spot, make up is on, and looking good before exiting

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Working on it Lori! We took a video, but we can't get it to upload! Will keep trying!

 

[Lacrystol]

OK - we made the littlest hole - and couldn't see a thing but heard peeping, so we gently made the hole bigger (just smaller than a dime) where the air pocket was and her little beak is now sticking out and she is peeping.  I don't know what shrinkwrap looks like, but there is a white membrane covering everything but her beak...we can not even see her eyes!  The white membrane does look like it is "stuck" more or less to her.  We took a video and it's giving me fits trying to upload to this computer, so my husband is upstairs now trying to upload it to his so I can post it.    We put her BACK in the incubator, wrapped in a damp washcloth with the hole uncovered facing up...Now what?

Edited to add - It looks REALLY DRY inside the shell!

Get the wet washcloth off of her....

 

[Lacrystol]

Working on it Lori!  We took a video, but we can't get it to upload!  Will keep trying!

Ok please don't do anything else until I see her!! Please don't wrap her up with a wet wash cloth. Leave her as is...