My Muscovies are trying to pip - Pictures

[casportpony]

Both still alive and it looks like egg #3 of 7 has pipped internally!

 

[gander007]

Great news Miss Lidia hope all goes well for ya

gander007

 

[Lacrystol]

Dang so sorry didn't see this sooner. What is the humidity at? The ones are going to need help. First thing to do is WET THAT MEMBRANE. Get that membrane so that is it completely see threw. Raise that humidity, if you gage says 65 get another one it maybe off..

 

[Lacrystol]

Make sure that yolk is wet, if he gets a blood clot it will not make it. Something that will help is onions, yep take an onion smash it in a paper towel, wrap it around his body then take another paper towel and wrap that around the onion paper towel. Change it every two hours.. Avoid his eyes.....

 

[Lacrystol]

Have you candled all of them? Do you know when there due date is?? Keep the Unabsorbed one wet take a warm wet qtip and rub very gently amount the bottom of the shell, the more wet the better but don't soak him... Try to hit the veins without breaking them you don't want those veins to dry up... Do this ever two hours but check him ever hour in case he needs to be wet more. For your weak one that is out give him a drop of vitamins, polyvisol works great...

 

[Lacrystol]

Both still alive and it looks like egg  #3 of 7 has pipped internally!

Where is your humidity at???

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great news Miss Lidia hope all goes well for ya

gander007

gander these aren't my eggs pipping, although it would be fun if they were.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Both still alive and it looks like egg #3 of 7 has pipped internally!

great news!!

 

[casportpony]

Dang so sorry didn't see this sooner. What is the humidity at? The ones are going to need help. First thing to do is WET THAT MEMBRANE. Get that membrane so that is it completely see threw. Raise that humidity, if you gage says 65 get another one it maybe off..

I have an Arcom 20 and I set the humidity to max, which is 70%. I also have a second hydrometer/thermometer. It was humid enough that I could see condensation on the lid. Problem is, both meters read the same in the 45-50% range, but when I set to 70% the Arcom display never goes above 65% and the internal one reads 85%, so not sure where it was.

Wetting the membrane was the first thing I did and I kept it as wet as possible, plus I filled the the space around it's body with saline and kept it sitting upright like this:

Have you candled all of them? Do you know when there due date is?? Keep the Unabsorbed one wet take a warm wet qtip and rub very gently amount the bottom of the shell, the more wet the better but don't soak him... Try to hit the veins without breaking them you don't want those veins to dry up... Do this ever two hours but check him ever hour in case he needs to be wet more. For your weak one that is out give him a drop of vitamins, polyvisol works great...

I have candled the remaining eggs, and I'm afraid I'm going to lose them as the one that had pipped internally yesterday died. Upon inspection it hadn't fully absorbed it's yolk.

Where is your humidity at???

I set it back down to 45% because #2 finally absorbed it's yolk. Not sure what to do about the remaining eggs as they seem like they haven't lost enough weight yet. In hindsight I should have weighed all of them and adjusted my humidity based on that. I'm sure you've all heard this before, but I have no problems with chicken chicks, lol... peafowl and now ducklings, that's another story.

Here they are:










I will give both a drop of the poultry vitamins that I have unless you think polyvisol is better, but I'd have to go get that later today. Once the second one has fluffed up I will move them both to a more appropriate brooder.

Any suggestions about what to do with the remaining eggs would be appreciated!

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

OK first thing I see is the flooring, they need wire flooring, the paper towel is to slippery for there webbed feet. So that will help with them getting strength in there legs. They look to be fine so I would hold off on the vitamins for now.

As far as the other eggs, I would be making safe holes for all of them right now.. Keep your humidity around 65, anything above 75% will kill them. keep your temp up to about 99 even 100 if you can. 101 won't hurt either but don't go higher then that.