Malpositioned/shrink wrapped duckling?! HELP!

[chickens really]

Which one is this pic?

Here’s what I’m currently working on today. Not good, but still fighting.
I don’t expect it to live, but it still has a slim chance.
You do not want this!
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Why did you open that one?

 

[WVduckchick]

Why did you open that one?

Internal pip for over 24 hours... then I lost sight of the bill...and it’s a Call duckling.
Bill was away from where it pipped, I had to dig it out from between its legs. How it got there, I don’t know! Trust me, I wish I hadn’t done it. But i count it as more experience. It just passed away. Huge sac left. I don’t know how it lived as long as it did, nor how/why it even internally pipped!

 

[chickens really]

Internal pip for over 24 hours... then I lost sight of the bill...and it’s a Call duckling.
Bill was away from where it pipped, I had to dig it out from between its legs. How it got there, I don’t know! Trust me, I wish I hadn’t done it. But i count it as more experience. It just passed away. Huge sac left. I don’t know how it lived as long as it did, nor how/why it even internally pipped!

Too bad.....Best wishes on the rest...

 

[Tsam88]

Which one is this pic?

Here’s what I’m currently working on today. Not good, but still fighting.
I don’t expect it to live, but it still has a slim chance.
You do not want this!
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Oh my goodness how is it doing?

The pic I sent in the last post was #5 who has progressed nicely!

#2 thought has had NO change since yesterday... respiration’s are still good and he is still chirping...

 

[Tsam88]

Wv I just saw that it passed... I’m so sorry...
prayers for the rest!!

 

[Tsam88]

UPDATE:

Ok so we now have 3 ducks in cups...
Here is why...

#2 we assisted last night because all around him started turning a dark brown/green color...
And was almost as tough as his shell... he had a small yolk ball still to absorb so we put a damp paper towel around that and placed him upright in the cup.
He did very well over night and is very strong. His yolk ball is almost completely gone. He’s going to be just fine! We are naming him Donald Duck.

#5 he was doing so well... he pipped and began to zip day before yesterday, and he had almost no progress yesterday. We left the incubator on lockdown after we helped and put #2 in the cup, and I checked this morning before we went to breakfast and he stuck his entire beak out of the hole he made... when we returned his beach was still there but was slightly open and cockeyed... he had passed... we tried to help him and opened him up after discovering his membrane had done what #2’s did and found that he had a small yolk sack also but it had turned green...
His beak I noticed yesterday was not a pretty bubblegum pink but a darker, kind of brownish purple, so after some research, I feel like his yolk sack stopped giving him nutrition and oxygen and he was just sick.

So after that we decided that since we were on day 32 with even the youngest that even though it was not advice y’all gave we had to intervene with the others...

#4 had pipped the same day #5 did and was at the exact same point... and his membranes had begun to harden as well...
but we carefully assisted him and he is comfortably resting in a cup in the incubator with a small yolk ball, but he is chirping and he is HUGE!!!

#6 the youngest we did the same thing and I’m so glad we did... that one’s membranes were already hardened after she pipped and the exterior of the external membrane was like a olive green/brown almost all over... that one has the biggest yolk ball but is very alert, and moving and when we got through the membrane it was almost like she took a huge gasp of air...

I think my incubator is off as you all said... I don’t know that I trust it to do anymore...
we will be looking for another before we try this again...

I also want to add that they were all in their eggs in very twisted positions... everything I have read on this site and others seemed to suggest the same...
So I believe that being the admitted novice that I am, I must have failed to rotate them correctly... if they are all like that then the only control would be me... along with these being my female’s VERY FIRST EGGS LAID.
So all in all I feel some guilt, and sadness, and I am hoping that these three make it and will be not only examples of this new learning experience but also hope...


So any advice y’all have on Duck in cups is much appreciated, and also, when should I take them out of the incubator? I will not wait for replies as I am doing research on that now, but I still would appreciate hearing from you all!
I will also send pics of all of them including our little buddy that didn’t make it and his yolk sack!

 

[Tsam88]

#5

 

[Tsam88]

#5

He was so ready...

 

[Tsam88]

#5 Green yolk sack

 

[Tsam88]

#2 the oldest