Unexpected Duck, new "dry" picture

[yotetrapper]

It is fresh blood. When you break a piece of shell, blood wells up in the crack. You have the membrane attached to the shell, that's what's bleeding. In inner membrane is whats stuck to the chick.

1/3 of his shell is gone, just membrane left.

I did not wrap it up yet, but I will go do that now.

This is so nervewracking....WHY do I even do it??

Angela

 

[M@M@2four]

Hatched a bunch of duck eggs and can tell you what I've done. You can pick a little bit to help, but once you start, he will need help mostly throughout. You can moisten his membranes if he's stuck with a warm wet q-tip. I just gently sweep in there and dampen everything, but be very careful not to get the water in his nostrils. Let him sit in there for awhile. He needs to wiggle around in there to help stop the blood flow and also trigger his body to absorb the yolk sac. If you help too quickly most likely he will be weak and may not fully have absorbed his yolk, which is a recipe for disaster. Keep him in the bator as much as possible and try not to open it too much because it takes out humidity and if you have any other eggs in there, you'll dry them out. If you see bright red blood, stop and just be patient!

Good luck!
God bless,
Tracey

 

[coopist]

Tracey's giving you some good, sound advice. You need to think long-term on this. Hours. But she may be right that more help will be needed eventually. But not while he's bleeding like that.

 

[yotetrapper]

I want to thank everyone for their help. He is wrapped now in a towel, peeping and kicking but still in his shell. With his head free, how long can he live in his shell? I need to leave again for work at 4:30 am tomorrow. I'm HOPING he will be out by then, but if he isn't, will he survive till 2:30?

I would like to help him out, but the blood keeps stopping me. I dont want him to bleed to death!!

 

[yotetrapper]

Thanks. He has been pipped for over 24 hours, and head out of his shell for over 9 now.

 

[silkiechicken]

Best of luck. I find opening the bator to try to help often jeopardizes everyone in the long run. At least for chickens that is. I give chicken eggs at least 24 if not 48 hours from pip to zip. Rarely do I intervene.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

As long as he isn't bleeding and his head is out, I think he will be fine in the shell. If you can, I would prop him where there is no way to drown and get it really wet inside his shell. I had to moisten, moisten, moisten on my dried out chickies. I really don't know, but it seemed like it was impossible for mine to absorb the blood and the yolk while too dry.

 

[GwenFarms]

I lost mine because of the same humidity issues that you had. When the humidity dropped it made him to weak to zip. He was pipped all day. That night I took the egg out and realized the membrane was way to dry under the shell. I zipped it for him. I put him back in and checked on him every couple of hours. The last time I fell asleep for about two hours and when I got up he had died with his head out of the shell. The membrane had dried on him and he was glued in. He was so tight in the shell there was no way for him to get out. Hopefully, if you wrap him in a wet towel this will prevent this, but I had reset my humidty really high in the bator after realizing the membrane was drying out, but it didn't help mine.

Your looking at it, so you know best what to do. Thats the story of what happened to mine. Be very careful about that membrane drying him into the shell. I wish I would have acted sooner, but if there is real blood issues there isn't much you can do, but wait.

 

[yotetrapper]

Ok, I went and took a nice long bath while my ducky was wrapped in his cloth. I came out, and went to work on him again... I had enough shell peeled away now that all I needed to do was unstick the membrane. I did the rolling away I read about on another post and............

HE'S OUT!!!

Well, all except for his feet still in the back part of the shell, but the rest of him is out!!

But I have no idea what he is lol.

I've messed with him enough for one night, so no pics until tomorrow afternoon, then ya'll can ID my duck!

Phew... stressful stuff, this hatching.

 

[Barnyard]

Congrat's! Can't wait to see pic's.