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Wonky hatched out around 8pm last night.  His feet were tight fists and his left leg stuck out behind and was stiff. 

As I type this, his feet are about half uncurled and stiff leg is getting under him. He can sit up now on his own and walks pretty good in my hands/lap.  He almost can walk without falling.  He also blew fluid out of his lungs and they sound good now. It is like magic to watch him fix himself.

Yay on your duckling!!!! Did you find out yet if hubby got those eggs??

All duck eggs have been moved to the chicken incubator. I am now working on getting the humidity up in there the way it should be might have to turn the fan off for a bit in order to keep that humidity up. The Anconas are all hatched out and doing good in the brooder. Two of the runner eggs made it to lock down they were internally pipped last night, but were not externally pipping so I made a tiny little hole in the shell for them to continue to get fresh air into the air cell. I suspect SW since my humidity was not perfect the entire time   for now I will leave them be because I can still see egg yolk at the bottom of the egg when I candled them.

So what prompted me to move all the eggs over to the chicken incubator was what I found when I candled the eggs that are not due to hatch for a couple more weeks. I had thought that I had the temps all worked out properly, but apparently I was a bit low on temps which is frustrating since I was baking them the week before. I found many dead embryos that had quit developing when they were going strong so to be safe I have moved all surviving eggs over to the chicken incubator including the 2 runners that are in the process of hatching. 

 Now I get the pleasure of regulating this incubator again with accurate thermometer and then trying out a test hatch in order to make sure it's going to stay steady. 

I will get this fixed eventually 

Chicken, I feel ya on the incubation problems.  Have you tried the accurite digital combo gauge?  I find mine to be very reliable.  

The two babies with problems were the two that had fluid issues at lockdown.  Wonky was in an 185g egg but hatched out half the size of the others.  I think he had so much fluid inside that he was still crammed and a little malpositioned.  I still can't believe Wonky even hatched, his egg was so messed up.  I kept wanting to toss it during cooking, but he would always be moving super strong inside, so I didn't have the heart to. 

Here's Wonky's feet.  I know it may not look like it, but he is already a lot better!  His leg is now straight and not sticking out back behind him.  The feet are not as tight fisted as they were, and while I was taking pics he stood up and took a few steps without falling. 

Here's Wonky's feet.  I know it may not look like it, but he is already a lot better!  His leg is now straight and not sticking out back behind him.  The feet are not as tight fisted as they were, and while I was taking pics he stood up and took a few steps without falling.