I collect all my eggs daily from my ducks. I was getting 3 a day daily when I was collecting these. I collected 2 white ones that were laid on the 9th, a blue that was laid on the 9th and 2 white ones on the 10th and then they went right into the incubator.
So I have 4 ducklings. One hatched last night, I moved it to the brooder this morning. The three that had pipped yesterday still weren't any further along this morning so I helped them some. They sat all morning in their shells until they finally just pushed themselves out. The one blue egg I had didn't make it. There were no pips in yet even though this morning was lockdown day I was nervous it wasn't pipped like the others were. I candled it and the beak I saw moving in the air cell part of the egg wasn't moving at all. There were no peeps, nothing. :-( I cracked it open up near the air cell and it was dead in the shell. Wasn't vacuum sealed or anything, looks like it just gave up after breaking thru the air cell. I'm glad I helped the others though. Maybe next time I hatch ducks eggs I won't do a dry hatch. This was pretty much a dry hatch all the way thru. I would have a little water once a week and that was it until the end I added and got the humidity up to 60-70%. So I have 4 little babies. 1 looks like a pure Khaki so far. One is black and the other two are brown like Khaki's but two will definitely be mixes since two eggs came from my Black Runner and 2 came from my KC hen. I'll know for sure once they get up and moving around. If none have that tall stance like runners do then they'll probably be mixes.
