need to assist? emergency

silkiemother

Crowing
Sep 14, 2018
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so, here's the story and I know this doesn't go in this thread but I need help asap
I have a duckling who was set on 1/20, went into lock down thursday and it is now sunday night. turns out my humidity was much lower than I though and I saw the baby being really active but now activity is slow and I can't seem to see the baby moving. I went ahead and opened up her shell about the size of a penny and wetted her membrane with coconut oil since apparently my humidity seriously dropped and the membrane was white. it appears her blood vessels are pretty much dried up and this little one isn't very active, like I can't get a response out of her. Should i go ahead and carefully open up the membrane so she can breathe? I'm afraid she may not have been able to break through the dried membrane. this is my first time dealing with this, please help if you can
 
that's the thing, she hasn't even managed to pip at all, I think it was simply too dry for her to be able to, I'm really hoping I'm not stepping in too late or that she might be dead
 
Have you tried to shine a really bright flashlight on the egg and tapping on the incubator window? Ducklings take so long to hatch and they do tend to rest throughout hatching
 
I have and she hasn't responded at all, she's the last one in the batch to make it and I really don't want to lose her. even gently moving her has done nothing
 

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