Please help egg sack still attached

[Toreyb]

hello my two little Shetland ducklings (our of 6 only these two survived to hatch date ) dodgy incubator I think my first time hatching duck eggs and they were not able to get out but making a huge fuss so I helped a little so it had a little wiggle room but didn’t wanna take it out because I read if you help it only help it a little it should do the rest it’s self and now both of them are part out of the shells but there attached to one has a large yolk sack one has a small one so I removed delicately all the shell other then where it’s atached so it stoped kicking at the shell didn’t want the yolk sack to be ripped off and I was reading on here people put warm damp paper towels and wrap them in it to help the duckling absorb the yolk sack ? So I’ve done that since 11 am today they have survived way past 24 hours which I think is really good I just wanted to know if I need to do anything else or if that’s ok and to just wait it out use there in the incubator with the wet paper towels around them Any help would be very very appreciated thank you

 

[Helloworld]

Put them back into bottom shell until egg yolk absorbed to keep it from drying up too fast. If you do not have, wet paper towel, not directly under heater and know depending on size of yolk could take a couple of days. Others may have experienced it differently than me. This is because they hatch a few days too soon. Use a spray bottle with warm water and keep lightly misting towel so it does not stick to sack. Keep inc temps at hatch heat for better absorption and pray. The important thing to remember is to keep it moist and don’t pick them up unless supporting sac and only if you have to.

I hope this helps. Good luck and congrats!

 

[Toreyb]

Put them back into bottom shell until egg yolk absorbed to keep it from drying up too fast. If you do not have, wet paper towel, not directly under heater and know depending on size of yolk could take a couple of days. Others may have experienced it differently than me. This is because they hatch a few days too soon. Use a spray bottle with warm water and keep lightly misting towel so it does not stick to sack. Keep inc temps at hatch heat for better absorption and pray. The important thing to remember is to keep it moist and don’t pick them up unless supporting sac and only if you have to.

I hope this helps. Good luck and congrats!

Thank you very much I was just checking to see if I could do any more and if I did the right thing thank you

 

[Helloworld]

You did and all will be well. Just give them a day or two. Good job!

 

[Miss Lydia]

@WVduckchick @Pyxis

 

[Pyxis]

Take the wet paper towels off the ducklings. Having a wet towel on them will actually chill them, so you want to avoid that. As long as the humidity in the incubator is high enough, it's not necessary.

Keep the ducklings in the bottom half of the egg shells until the yolk is absorbed. You don't want them to pull away too soon, so when this happens to me, I put them in a plastic cup lined with dry paper towels so that they can't. The downward pressure on the yolk probably helps them absorb it faster, too. Here's a picture of a chick to illustrate what I mean:

 

[Miss Lydia]

@Toreyb

 

[Toreyb]

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Take the wet paper towels off the ducklings. Having a wet towel on them will actually chill them, so you want to avoid that. As long as the humidity in the incubator is high enough, it's not necessary.

Keep the ducklings in the bottom half of the egg shells until the yolk is absorbed. You don't want them to pull away too soon, so when this happens to me, I put them in a plastic cup lined with dry paper towels so that they can't. The downward pressure on the yolk probably helps them absorb it faster, too. Here's a picture of a chick to illustrate what I mean:

hank you but the duckling is too big to go in a cup and so I should just leave it on the incubator floor ? I don’t want it to rip the egg yolk off ?

 

[Pyxis]

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hank you but the duckling is too big to go in a cup and so I should just leave it on the incubator floor ? I don’t want it to rip the egg yolk off ?

Oh wow, I've never had a duckling too big to fit in a cup before. I've even done goslings in a cup when necessary. Do you have anything around that they would fit in? Anything at all that can be used to prop them up to keep them from pulling away from the egg too soon? Measuring cups, a bowl, etc?

 

[Miss Lydia]

A small bowl?

@Pyxis