Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[Lacrystol]

Then all of my Muscovy eggs that have ever hatched were sticky, 'cause that's how all of them look. I'm talking hundreds incubated under ducks in the last five years.

-Kathy

Ok.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Thanks for your thoughts, they do help!

-Kathy

 

[yinepu]

Quote:
I would candle it every day for a bit and see how much movement is going on... hopefully it still has plenty of time so that air cell can grow

 

[casportpony]

I would candle it every day for a bit and see how much movement is going on... hopefully it still has plenty of time so that air cell can grow

Just marked the air cell outline!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I think I might have some "sticky" or "too high humidty" pictures... need to look for them.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

These are peachicks that I'm pretty sure I killed by setting my humidity too high. They were four of eight, the other 4 hatched on their own in 27 days, I think.






This one died before it absorbed it's yolk.




This one had a deformed leg














-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Okay... from what I've read about "sticky" chicks, they would *not* look like this, right? Or am I wrong, lol. To me this looks like all normal chicks and ducklings do when they hatch. This duckling just slid out of the membrane and was *not* cleaned or dried by me.



-Kathy

 

[yinepu]

Okay... from what I've read about "sticky" chicks, they would *not* look like this, right? Or am I wrong, lol. To me this looks like all normal chicks and ducklings do when they hatch. This duckling just slid out of the membrane and was *not* cleaned or dried by me.



-Kathy

he's too clean and dry to be a sticky baby... more likely it was a bacterial issue of some sort that did him in..

 

[casportpony]

Quote: He's alive, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

The only dead ones are in post #2076

-Kathy