Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

Celtic, I love you!!

............... I really need to put a lockpad on my bator ...........

........... ... I panic WAY to easy....

This sounds vaguely familiar....

 

[Marty1876]

Ah DG, didn't know you were a chronic bator inspector! I'm glad Celtic was able to offer you the gift of her wisdom. She's hatched a lot a lot of eggs, and has had ample opportunity to see darn near everything.

Celtic - do you keep your issued babies in plastic bowls in your bator in cases like this? I'm usually a hands off hatcher, so I seldom deal with problems like unabsorbed yolk. For everyone who has and will encounter this, please tell us exactly what you do to keep them damp and simutaniously safe and protected, but not cooked (like w/metal bowls).

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Make sure he is secure in the bator, leave him alone. Make sure the humidity is up and goto bed. Stop getting up in the middle of the night, and try to not panic. Just keep telling yourself. days not hours, leave the lid shut.
I am off to bed, but will read up in the morning. Hopefully he has made progress by then, but plan to leave that duckling in the bator longer than an u assisted hatched duck would stay in it.

I woke up last night to make sure he was OK, never opened though, that I can promise you i didn't, and I'm gonna fill it up again (with water) and go to bed before i rip out the rest of m hair...................

.......... Oh, and I'm taping it down, I swear!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I woke up last night to make sure he was OK, never opened though, that I can promise you i didn't, and I'm gonna fill it up again (with water) and go to bed before i rip out the rest of m hair...................

.......... Oh, and I'm taping it down, I swear!

DG. I need to be very frank with you now. I searched around and found the proper terminology: Umbilical Hernia.

It's as serious as it looks. Sometimes given a little time, it will absorb back into the body and the baby will live. But most of the time that's not the case.

The link is for an older thread involving a chick. It doesn't have a happy ending, but thought it might help to compare your duckling to: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/427300/newly-hatched-chick-with-umbelical-hernia-prolapse

I would leave it in the incubator and see what happens. But if I were you, I wouldn't get too attached to the poor baby.

 

[Marty1876]

Don't tape it down, just leave it closed and peek thorugh the little windows with a flashlight, like the rest of us.

No button quail. (They've been locked down, and are due today, but they feel sooooo lightweight.) Diappointing to the little 6 year old DD.
Not gonna be any Old English Games for big DD, her eggs (the only two fertile growers) have clearly died. Poor girls, they've been following along and peeking on wed. and sat. when we candle now. I hated seeing Ruths dead eggs.

I'm clearly jinxed this season. Not a decent hatch in over a month.

 

[Marty1876]

I'm afraid this is kinda where I am on this too. Lets hope we are wrong.

DG. I need to be very frank with you now. I searched around and found the proper terminology: Umbilical Hernia.

It's as serious as it looks. Sometimes given a little time, it will absorb back into the body and the baby will live. But most of the time that's not the case.

The link is for an older thread involving a chick. It doesn't have a happy ending, but thought it might help to compare your duckling to: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/427300/newly-hatched-chick-with-umbelical-hernia-prolapse

I would leave it in the incubator and see what happens. But if I were you, I wouldn't get too attached to the poor baby.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I'm afraid this is kinda where I am on this too. Lets hope we are wrong.

Exactly.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Quote: ....To late........

....... Lets just hope for the best, he opens his eyes and looks at me sometimes, but not for very long....

It doesn't look like insides really, it looks like a sac of ooz connected to his vent. Is it bad of me to want him to pass away painlessly?? Cause I want him to just.... well.... die.

 

[Iain Utah]

I used plastic soap dishes as hospital beds for this hatch, with damp paper towel underneath. They worked really well to keep bottom half of babies inside their shells until ready to hatch.

 

[Wulfandwyn]

Exactly.

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