Duck eggs in incubator

clglen said:

I brought her in and put her eggs in the incubator with some others. I gave her a Epsom salt bath in the tub. And coated her leg in Neosporin. Like you said I also bandaged her up and took her to a vet once they open they said her leg was to mangled. That she would never be able to use it. It would always drag.. I still had all hope for her they kept her and she passed away. We have been baiting the turtles my ducklings aren't going to the pond till i know it's safe. This is the first encounter we have had and the first time we have seen a turtle in the pond.

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I am very sorry you lost her. It's a blessing to have a pond but comes with risks as you found out. I hope you can get rid of the ones you have but always be watchful because more will come. Some are able to call fish and wild life and get help removing them might give it a try .

Happy to hear your lil duckling is doing great. It's adorable.

Thank you.. we have traps out for the turtles and have baited lines out to catch them.

clglen said:

Thank you.. we have traps out for the turtles and have baited lines out to catch them.

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Good for you hope you get them all.

Pyxis said:

You really need to get something to check the humidity because it's crucial all throughout incubation, not just the last three days.

Hatch day is day 28, not day 29.

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Depends on there temperture I put them one degree higher, and they hatched hatched on day 26.

Waddlein said:

Depends on there temperture I put them one degree higher, and they hatched hatched on day 26.

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When temperatures are correct, the incubation period for ducks aside from muscovies and Calls is 28 days. Putting the temperature up a degree to get faster hatches is not a good idea. It raises the chance of malformations, as well as has other negative impacts on hatching.

Incubating at higher than normal reduces hatchability and leads to more middle and late deaths during incubation. It's been found that higher temps reduce growth in cardiac tissue, which probably accounts for some of the deaths. Additionally, higher temperatures impair yolk utilization. Running high enough will impair it so much that the embryo can be sent into a state of malnutrition. Higher temperatures also cause excessive water loss, meaning more moisture is lost from the egg than should be. This often leads to embryos in the egg actually dying of dehydration.

Checking your past posts, it looks like you didn't have a very good hatch. I'm thinking the high temperature is probably why. You suspected mercury poisoning, but we do not put real mercury in thermometers any longer.

There's a reason we incubate at the temperatures we do - it's because they've been proven to work the best

So I had two perfect little baby ducks born yesterday and today I have one that seems to be trying to get out.. but seems to have given up or maybe just resting it's just propped up on the shell but still fully In the egg

I also was curious if I could put my larger baby duck in with baby chickens.

clglen said:

So I had two perfect little baby ducks born yesterday and today I have one that seems to be trying to get out.. but seems to have given up or maybe just resting it's just propped up on the shell but still fully In the egg

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Did it start to zip and then stop? If it's stopped during zipping, it's probably stuck and needs a hand to finish getting out. You can't hurt it be helping it out at this stage since they don't start to zip until everything is absorbed, so go ahead and finish the zip for it. As always stop if you see blood, but you really shouldn't.

I helped it out. Its laid there a bit and is now actually sitting up finally the two that hatched out yesterday are still in the incubator at first one want over to it and was comforting it it seemed like but now they are pecking it I'm not sure if they are helping get stuff off it or what they are doing exactly should I be worried? I have one more egg that I'm expecting to hatch tomorrow

clglen said:

I helped it out. Its laid there a bit and is now actually sitting up finally the two that hatched out yesterday are still in the incubator at first one want over to it and was comforting it it seemed like but now they are pecking it I'm not sure if they are helping get stuff off it or what they are doing exactly should I be worried? I have one more egg that I'm expecting to hatch tomorrow

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If you have 2 that hatched yesterday they can be taken out and put into a warm brooder and offered some room temp water. They maybe too much for the newly hatched gosling.