Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[subhanalah]

I just touch it to the side of their beak and not into their mouths when they are little like that

 

[MuscovyLover]

I just touch it to the side of their beak and not into their mouths when they are little like that

So just touch it to the side and let a drip come out of the syringe at a time?
I'll grab one in the morning and in the meantime I'll keep dipping the tip of uts beak in the food/water mix.
Its sibling loves that.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So just touch it to the side and let a drip come out of the syringe at a time?
I'll grab one in the morning and in the meantime I'll keep dipping the tip of uts beak in the food/water mix.
Its sibling loves that.

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/livestock-forums/goats/448578-homemade-electrolyte-solution.html

that's what I do just let it drop along the bill.

 

[puppies9099]

So I need some advice...
The second duckling I hatched in the bator has been completely out of its shell for 24 hours now. I left it in the bator until a few hours ago as it has a lump on its tummy where it didn't quite go back in after it absorbed. I have been putting iodine on it and wanted to give it some time to perk up.
I've got it in the brooder now with its sibling but it just isn't making any effort to get up. It chooses to keep itself curled up in the position it was in in the egg. I've tried putting it on its back to encourage it, wrapped it in a towel and cuddled it for a few hours and it's now back in the brooder with its loud bossy sibling and is still the same :-(
Is this something any of you have experienced before?
And if so, is there anything I can do to help the poor bubba?

So I need some advice...
The second duckling I hatched in the bator has been completely out of its shell for 24 hours now. I left it in the bator until a few hours ago as it has a lump on its tummy where it didn't quite go back in after it absorbed. I have been putting iodine on it and wanted to give it some time to perk up.
I've got it in the brooder now with its sibling but it just isn't making any effort to get up. It chooses to keep itself curled up in the position it was in in the egg. I've tried putting it on its back to encourage it, wrapped it in a towel and cuddled it for a few hours and it's now back in the brooder with its loud bossy sibling and is still the same :-(
Is this something any of you have experienced before?
And if so, is there anything I can do to help the poor bubba?

im so sorry but if thier not perking thier head up and they have that thing on thier tummy they die that happened to all the babies that had that and they churped and when I have hope the next morning,u go to check on him and he"ll be in his towel curled up dead im,sorry I dont have any thinv good to tell u this ussaully happens when u help them,out of tge egg sorry

 

[Lacrystol]

That is a BRILLIANT idea
I also read grass 'soup' is a hit but is it too young to have other foods? I'll put a fair bit in the bottom of the waterer and see how we go.
I love that it is so cuddly but I'm worried if its sibling doesn't finish fluffing and perk up that it will be a single duckling living with humans and not knowing how to cope when it goes into the yard with the other ducks. They are friendly enough but weren't hand raised like this one will be. It's so bleedin cute and alone in that brooder that it's impossible not to give it cuddles aloy. Even my partner, who's a man's man gives it lots of cuddles lol.

If that doesn't work, TRY PEANUT BUTTER, I understand that they LOVE peanut butter and the idea is only to get them to taste it.

 

[Lacrystol]

So just touch it to the side and let a drip come out of the syringe at a time?
I'll grab one in the morning and in the meantime I'll keep dipping the tip of uts beak in the food/water mix.
Its sibling loves that.

??? are you talking about the one with the tummy problem? or the one that's not eating?? I'm lost here can you send me a pic of the one with the tummy issue. I would be worried about him having an infection..

 

[MuscovyLover]

Bubba number 2 did die overnight. It didn't seem like it was able to get out of that in shell position :-(
I'll post a pic of its tummy @Lacrystol. I'm curious to know if it was because of that or if something else was going on.
So now bubba number 1 is alone. This concerns me. It doesn't spend much time in the brooder because it always wants cuddles. I'm sad about the second duckling but my main focus should now be making sure this little one gets the best possible start.
I have no idea wether I should be encouraging this human/duckling bond but I don't have any other options :-(

 

[MuscovyLover]

 

[Miss Lydia]

Bubba number 2 did die overnight. It didn't seem like it was able to get out of that in shell position :-(
I'll post a pic of its tummy @Lacrystol . I'm curious to know if it was because of that or if something else was going on.
So now bubba number 1 is alone. This concerns me. It doesn't spend much time in the brooder because it always wants cuddles. I'm sad about the second duckling but my main focus should now be making sure this little one gets the best possible start.
I have no idea wether I should be encouraging this human/duckling bond but I don't have any other options :-(

I'd place a non breakable mirror in with this duckling and a stuffed animal the mirror will help it associate with the other ducklings and the stuffed will give it comfort when you can be there. Sorry for the loss of the lil one.

 

[MuscovyLover]

I'd place a non breakable mirror in with this duckling and a stuffed animal the mirror will help it associate with the other ducklings and the stuffed will give it comfort when you can be there. Sorry for the loss of the lil one. 

Thanks Miss Lydia. It's sad that the second one didn't make it. At least one did. They had a fair bit of mucking around during incubation with mummas switching then quitting then in the bator so I guess I should be happy one made it.
I've got sone stuffed toys in the brooder but I hadn't thought about a mirror. That's a great idea! I've got a plastic one I'll pop in there
I am PRAYING this is a girl. If it's a boy I can't keep it and that will break my heart I suspect.