Malpositioned chick

[msdoolittle]

Yes, I have plenty of pictures and even some video, too! What image hosting site do most people use here? I'll be glad to upload!

 

[horsejody]

BYC has it's own uploads page. It is in the menu across the top.

 

[newduckie]

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I am so jealous of your babies. I have some duck eggs in the homemade incubator but not sure if they are even fertile.. Tell me more of what I need to know for duck eggs... pleas.. I set these on the 27th. The temp has stayed at 101 to 102 consistently.. what humdiity is my question.. for the duration and then for the lockdown.. thanks. really want to see more posts about hatching ducks and hopefully geese in the spring.. My male geese needs to get with the program..lol

 

[newduckie]

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I am so jealous of your babies. I have some duck eggs in the homemade incubator but not sure if they are even fertile.. Tell me more of what I need to know for duck eggs... pleas.. I set these on the 27th. The temp has stayed at 101 to 102 consistently.. what humdiity is my question.. for the duration and then for the lockdown.. thanks. really want to see more posts about hatching ducks and hopefully geese in the spring.. My male geese needs to get with the program..lol

people are laughing at my homemade "eggubator". very strange looking...lol

 

[msdoolittle]

I'm probably the last person to ask about incubating duck eggs as this was my first hatch, but my temps were @ 101-102 intermittently HOWEVER, for the first 2 weeks, the eggs were set by my Silkie, who finally abandoned them.

I then ran them into the house as they were ice cold and rigged up this silly incubator consisting of only a human heating pad, a clear plastic small animal carrier, Saran Wrap (to keep in humidity), a couple of towels (one under the 'bator, one on top of the Saran Wrap on top of the bator), a digital thermometer/hygrometer, and 2 small container of water with about 4 inches of cut sponge sticking out (for greater surface area to raise humidity). Hoo, boy, I will NEVER do that again! Lol. But, I was able to keep humidity at about 50-55 for the majority of the duration by misting the eggs about once a day, and keeping the water containers filled. When they pipped, I got the humidity up to 65-75% by very carefully misting the inside wall of the bator. Trust me, using this emergency bator was an absolute nightmare, and it is only by sheer miracle they made it, I swear. If I wasn't a stay at home mom, they probably would have either froze to death or burned up if I weren't checking temps all the time!

I'd ask about specific humidities in the duck section of this forum, to people who actually know what they're doing, lol.

But good luck! I'll be building my own bator really soon!

Just before the final push:

The breech baby...you can see there is still a little blood, I could have/probably should have waited until this evening before rupturing any more membrane, but experience is the best teacher! I have only hatched out reptiles (many years ago). Never done this before...but we're done with it now!

 

[Ducks-R-Us]

Congratulations!

Glad your ducks made it out OK!

Are they Cayuga's?

 

[smallbluejellybean]

3 of my canary chicks did that this year. I just gave a little assistance with a pair of tweezers, by removing slowly peices of shell. When I would see a beak try to break threw I would remove a little more than it did. They all survived.
Its more common than people think, but a totally managable situation.

Just slowly, slowly.

P.S. Should have said toe poke through. It was the toes that came threw the shell first with me.

 

[msdoolittle]

Ducks R Us, yes! Actually, the mother is a crested Cayuga (named: Harriet Carter), the drake (Walter Drake) is a rescue, which looks like a pet quality Runner, but with Cayuga coloring...thus, 2 little coal black ducks, lol. I guess I DID get a couple of lumps of coal for Christmas (even it it was a little late). I hope one is a female so I can name her Lillian Vernon. Remember all those corny catalogs that are, for whatever reason, sent out to the older generations? I named the ducks after them, lol.

Jellybean, glad your canaries made it! This situation really tried my patience! Generally speaking, I don't like to intervene with Nature, but as these are going to be my pets, I felt more obligated to help out, especially since I did some of the incubation. I really hope in the future, I'll have some broody hens and won't have to worry w/ an incubator for the most part!

 

[newduckie]

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thats pretty funny about the names.. As I was reading it I thought that the names were familiar..lol

 

[rocketdog312]

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