Is this duckling alive?!!

[OreoPlymothRock]

But it doesn't matter, I think they are both dead.

 

[OreoPlymothRock]

They aren't moving, I don't see any breathing, and they are dry. All of my ducklings are dead, ALL of the eggs I set died. I think I'm cursed.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They aren't moving, I don't see any breathing, and they are dry. All of my ducklings are dead, ALL of the eggs I set died. I think I'm cursed.

I'm very sorry, but just because you saw movement in the airspace doesn't mean it was ready to come out. It probably had just pipped internally, which meant it had a ways to go.

 

[OreoPlymothRock]

Now that I am on a different computer, here is a pic:

It is like touching a plastic toy.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Now that I am on a different computer, here is a pic:

It is like touching a plastic toy.

I still don't understand why you would open the egg and take the duck out of it's shell didn't you realize by doing that it could die not being ready to hatch, I know you have hatched before so seems you would have known. That's very sad.

 

[OreoPlymothRock]

Last night a duck was pipping out of it's shell. It died of suffocation and I thought this one would too. So I wanted to do it a little early than do it late and have it suffocate. It looked ready.

 

[buff goose guy]

You have to let then hatch themselves , when they peap in the shell and open it it's just for more air and it will go back to sleep still attached the the embryo for nurishment


So that duck is I'm sorry but it's dead a tragedy in fact


Next year please please let them hatch themselves don't do anything they can do it as humans we don't think they can but they can do it .

 

[TLWR]

That baby wasn't ready to be out.
Just because your duck killed a duckling last year doesn't mean she hates them. Accidents happen. It really is best to let nature take its course with hatching eggs under a chicken or duck. That duckling would have absorbed all of that yolk by the time it hatched out on its own.

 

[Allisha]

The duckling was definitely not ready to hatch. It looks really small too, but I don't know what kind of duck it was. Are you sure the baby even internally pipped? Because it may have just squirmed around and pressed against the air sack and made it seem like it had done so. As a duckling hatches it still hasn't absorbed the yolk all the way. I know it's so tempting to help a hatching duckling, but please refrain from doing so. If you absolutely HAVE to, make a very small hold in theair sac where you believe the beak would be. The duckling should already have punctured the membrane around it, so as long as you can see the beak then you can stop helping and leave the baby there. By now the baby should be safe from suffocating, and he won't need to eat or drink for at least another day. Let the duckling do all the work, and influence him by peeping and talking to him. If he is strong enough he will know when to get out and he'll hatch. But usually after helping just a tiny bit the duckling usually needs help to the end. But this part isn't for beginners, so if he doesn't hatch the rest of the way by himself, then I recommend leaving him in and let nature take it's course.

 

[Allisha]

Unless you are absolutely sure that you can continue on. Just apply neosporin or water to the membrane to look for blood vessels. Wait until the blood vessels rece, then chip away the pieces piece by piece over the next day or two as long as the blood vessels have dissapeared.