u/miozalex

I need help I’m hatching duck eggs for the first time. I’m on day 30. Three have already hatched, and a few others have pipped. One egg pipped yesterday but didn’t make any progress, which I wasn’t too worried about at first.

Last night the membrane looked dry and my humidity had dropped to around 60%, so I started assisting. While helping, I realized I couldn’t find the beak at all, so I’m pretty sure this duckling is upside‑down/malpositioned.

I looked up what to do and saw that you’re supposed to carefully peel shell to give them space to breathe. But the membrane kept drying out, so I peeled a little more — and accidentally hit a blood vessel. It wasn’t a lot of bleeding and it has stopped, and the duckling is still breathing and moving, but he definitely can’t get out on his own and I don’t think he’s fully ready to hatch yet.

I really want to help him survive. I know some people say “let nature take its course,” but I already lost one duckling this hatch and I don’t want that to happen again. I’m trying to do everything I can.

If anyone has experience, I’d really appreciate advice on what I should do next

I need help I’m hatching duck eggs for the first time. I’m on day 30. Three have already hatched, and a few others have pipped. One egg pipped yesterday but didn’t make any progress, which I wasn’t too worried about at first.

Last night the membrane looked dry and my humidity had dropped to around 60%, so I started assisting. While helping, I realized I couldn’t find the beak at all, so I’m pretty sure this duckling is upside‑down/malpositioned.

I looked up what to do and saw that you’re supposed to carefully peel shell to give them space to breathe. But the membrane kept drying out, so I peeled a little more — and accidentally hit a blood vessel. It wasn’t a lot of bleeding and it has stopped, and the duckling is still breathing and moving, but he definitely can’t get out on his own and I don’t think he’s fully ready to hatch yet.

I really want to help him survive. I know some people say “let nature take its course,” but I already lost one duckling this hatch and I don’t want that to happen again. I’m trying to do everything I can.

If anyone has experience, I’d really appreciate advice on what I should do next.

I need help I’m hatching duck eggs for the first time. I’m on day 30. Three have already hatched, and a few others have pipped. One egg pipped yesterday but didn’t make any progress, which I wasn’t too worried about at first.

Last night the membrane looked dry and my humidity had dropped to around 60%, so I started assisting. While helping, I realized I couldn’t find the beak at all, so I’m pretty sure this duckling is upside‑down/malpositioned.

I looked up what to do and saw that you’re supposed to carefully peel shell to give them space to breathe. But the membrane kept drying out, so I peeled a little more — and accidentally hit a blood vessel. It wasn’t a lot of bleeding and it has stopped, and the duckling is still breathing and moving, but he definitely can’t get out on his own and I don’t think he’s fully ready to hatch yet.

I really want to help him survive. I know some people say “let nature take its course,” but I already lost one duckling this hatch and I don’t want that to happen again. I’m trying to do everything I can.

If anyone has experience, I’d really appreciate advice on what I should do next.

I’m starting to really hate living here, and honestly I feel like everyone here hates me too. Nobody believes in me when I do something. Whenever I draw, they accuse me of tracing. Whenever I accomplish something, they act like it’s impossible that I did it.

Then they threw duck eggs at me to take care of — eggs my dad didn’t even know how to handle, even though he claims he’s “hatched many ducks.” I watched him do half the things wrong, but he still acted like I wouldn’t hatch anything. And when I did hatch them, suddenly it was “luck,” and they questioned every single thing I did.

They even blamed me for the eggs that didn’t hatch, saying I “killed them,” and that taking the ducklings out of the incubator would kill them too, even though they were fine. When I asked for even a little bit of faith, my mom hit me on the head and got angry.

They also won’t let me have anything of my own. I’ve raised these ducks, but she won’t even let me say “my ducks” without correcting me. I’ve been saving for a bird for months, but they won’t give me any work to earn money, saying they “don’t have money,” while constantly buying things they don’t need — more ducks, quail, two incubators, alcohol, etc. She says we have food, but it’s only food she likes or its stuff i have to make without half the stuff i need to make it.

She also doesn’t understand that I’m autistic. She yells when I’m overstimulated, gets mad when I can’t look her in the eyes, or when I struggle with something. If I eat and dirty a dish and then try to clean it, she yells I did it wrong. If I don’t clean it, she yells that I made a mess. If I clean the whole house, she acts like I performed a miracle, only to yell about something tiny I missed.

And the part that i really hate is how she treats my sister. She constantly complains about her and even tells me straight-up that she “hates her,” but the second my sister cries or throws a fit (shes 19 almost 20 btw), she gets whatever she wants. Meanwhile, if I’m even a little upset, my mom gets mad at me. I try so hard to be the “good kid,” to stay calm, to do things right, and it still doesn’t matter. She’ll bend over backwards for my sister but gets angry at me for having normal emotions.

I’m exhausted. I feel like I can’t win no matter what I do. I want to leave, but I have nowhere to go and part of me doesn’t even want to leave (i think its mostly cuz of my dog), even though I don’t understand why.