AmyA248
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- Jun 20, 2022
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Good morning,
First, I want to thank everyone for all of your support, advice and empathy.
You are all a lovely group of caring people and I donāt know what I would do without your help.
Moving on, if youāre following my story youāll know my duckling has passed away. I am devastated because I put my heart and soul into my eggs.
He was still moving a bit last night and I started to notice a faint brown spot on the egg shell, but unfortunately Iām very new to this and I had no idea what ābruisingā was. If I had known I would have put a hole through it even though it was right in between the duckling and the air sac.
To be totally honest, if I knew he was going to pass overnight I would have hatched him myself and tried my hardest to save him. I know we are never supposed to intervene, but even if he only had 1% of a chance itās still better than death.
So I did an eggtopsy to see if I could tell what went wrong, and I was SHOCKED at what I found!
First, his beak was not down and pointed towards the air sac, it was buried under his wing. So he wasnāt positioned correctly Iām assuming.
There was no fluid left at all, Iām not sure if thatās normal. Upon opening the egg it looked like maybe he was shrink wrapped? Again, Iām still a novice.
But the most concerning thing was his belly! At first I thought it was an unabsorbed yolk sac, but upon looking closer and moving him around, it appeared as his belly was see through!!! Iāve never seen or heard of anything like this!
I had a duckling born with an unabsorbed yolk sac and it looked NOTHING like this, and itās definitely his belly.
Of course I cried the entire time I was examining him with my hubby with me for support, and even he got emotional, as we all wanted this duckling so badly.
* I want to apologize in advance for the graphic and disturbing photos, but I need to know what this is, what happened and if I caused it to happen.
Any help with figuring this out would be greatly appreciated, as Iām still learning and Iām very invested in growing our little farm family.
Love and blessings to all,
Amy
First, I want to thank everyone for all of your support, advice and empathy.
You are all a lovely group of caring people and I donāt know what I would do without your help.
Moving on, if youāre following my story youāll know my duckling has passed away. I am devastated because I put my heart and soul into my eggs.
He was still moving a bit last night and I started to notice a faint brown spot on the egg shell, but unfortunately Iām very new to this and I had no idea what ābruisingā was. If I had known I would have put a hole through it even though it was right in between the duckling and the air sac.
To be totally honest, if I knew he was going to pass overnight I would have hatched him myself and tried my hardest to save him. I know we are never supposed to intervene, but even if he only had 1% of a chance itās still better than death.
So I did an eggtopsy to see if I could tell what went wrong, and I was SHOCKED at what I found!
First, his beak was not down and pointed towards the air sac, it was buried under his wing. So he wasnāt positioned correctly Iām assuming.
There was no fluid left at all, Iām not sure if thatās normal. Upon opening the egg it looked like maybe he was shrink wrapped? Again, Iām still a novice.
But the most concerning thing was his belly! At first I thought it was an unabsorbed yolk sac, but upon looking closer and moving him around, it appeared as his belly was see through!!! Iāve never seen or heard of anything like this!
I had a duckling born with an unabsorbed yolk sac and it looked NOTHING like this, and itās definitely his belly.
Of course I cried the entire time I was examining him with my hubby with me for support, and even he got emotional, as we all wanted this duckling so badly.
* I want to apologize in advance for the graphic and disturbing photos, but I need to know what this is, what happened and if I caused it to happen.
Any help with figuring this out would be greatly appreciated, as Iām still learning and Iām very invested in growing our little farm family.
Love and blessings to all,
Amy
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