Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[CluckNDoodle]

One of them is still alive the other two were DIS. I don't know what to do about the alive one. It's not absorbing the yolk and it's still veiny.

How do I help it or is it beyond help?

Did it internally pip?

 

[FortCluck]

Oh no! I'm so so sorry!!! I would have looked into helping duckies that were that late as well. View attachment 2050568

I mean it's day 30 I think... How do I help this other one?

I opened up it's air cell a lot so I didn't knick a vein again

 

[FortCluck]

Did it internally pip?

Nope... It's day 30. The one I killed was really small. No yolk absorbed either. I opened up the air cell a lot on this one to see what was up with it. I wet the air cell so I could see the veins.

 

[Floydie]

I'd leave it and keep an eye on it. Hopefully it will absorb the blood and yolk soon.

 

[julskinka]

I have 14 shipped eggs on day 4 today. I let them rest for 3 days before putting them in the incubator. I candled a handful of them today, they’re developing but look like they have “jiggly” air cells. Are they doomed? ☹

Not necessarily. I hatched shipped eggs with messy air cells every year. I also don't usually wait that long - 24 hours at most. If the air cells aren't fixed by then, they won't fix at all, as you've seen.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Nope... It's day 30. The one I killed was really small. No yolk absorbed either. I opened up the air cell a lot on this one to see what was up with it. I wet the air cell so I could see the veins.

Do you see the bill or does it appear to be malpositioned?

 

[julskinka]

Starting to have a bad feeling with the emus. Negative Nancy over here started thinking that none are alive and it will be a wasted effort

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If nothing else, it will have been a learning experience, and practice, which have their own value.

 

[FortCluck]

Do you see the bill or does it appear to be malpositioned?

Can't see anything

 

[FortCluck]

Do you see the bill or does it appear to be malpositioned?

All I see are veins and some yolk on one of the sides, but it's moving

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Can't see anything

Can you take a picture of what you're looking at? I know it's really hard to identify where things are. My guess would be malposition since there hasn't been a pip. Sometimes when waterfowl try to pip they leave what looks like a bruise on the shell, do you see that anywhere?