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my grandmother had reported that all three eggs looked to have pipped this afternoon! We'll be keeping an eye, but it looks like the chicken mamas are doing their job, and hopefully the one baby was just a fluke!! Thanks for helping, I greatly appreciate

I would if I didn't worry for the eggs already inside. I have about 90 eggs in the incubator, and 6doz of those I bought off someone for 140 so I'm nervous to accidentally hurt the babies developing by storing the duck eggs and cranking the humidity to 60-70% from 40. I'm only on day 6 right...

Understood! Sorry I'm just anxious. We had one egg that was 'hatched' but the bird was dead- fully formed, half out of the egg, but dead and rotten egg smell permeated through the coop. It happened about 2 or 3 days ago so I'm just worried. So wait and see what happens then?

i had quite a few hatch day 19, but thats also cause i took eggs from a few broody hens so they may have had a 'jumpstart' compared to others. oops.

I have two broody hens that are sitting on muscovy eggs- one sitting on one egg and another sitting on two (three eggs collectively) Two nights ago we candled the eggs and I saw movement- what looked like ducks kicking around in the eggs. I'm assuming that means they internally pipped. Yet two...