Well Twitchy cried and cried for a brooder buddy. I gave him one that hatched yesterday morning, and he's scared to death of it. LOL!
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Still, yes toss the blood ring eggs so they don't get gross on you. How many days post hatch is the duckling? Did it hatch assisted or unassisted? I would start the poly vi sol or chick saver. If it isn't dry and warm move it closer to heat or back into a bator.
CG, no reason to add water if the humidity is running to high right now. If you have trouble reducing weight during incubation you need to run with out water in the bator. I cant run water in the small bators during incubation or the eggs don't do as well. If the air cells haven't started dipping enough, you can cool for 20-30 min and mist while out. Once the time is up put them back. You don't technically have to go into lockdown on a set date, but do once they internally pip. Good luck with the hatch this weekend. Keep us posted.
They don't look bad, yes you can run a dry incubator. Our humidity here allows me to run dry or virtually dry until they pip. Incubation is an art, with tweaking that needs to be made to your location. Old school thought was, set temps at X humidity at Y and lockdown at Z. It has been determined that we can help regulate the humidity to get a better hatch rate through artificial incubation. So grandma is right in that she is old school incubating. You are right to try and regulate more to give the eggs the best chance they can have.
Cass that's too funny. Hopefully they buddy up soon.
They don't look bad, yes you can run a dry incubator. Our humidity here allows me to run dry or virtually dry until they pip. Incubation is an art, with tweaking that needs to be made to your location. Old school thought was, set temps at X humidity at Y and lockdown at Z. It has been determined that we can help regulate the humidity to get a better hatch rate through artificial incubation. So grandma is right in that she is old school incubating. You are right to try and regulate more to give the eggs the best chance they can have.
Cass that's too funny. Hopefully they buddy up soon.
Was it hard to sex them? Did it hurt them? I've wanted to try, and I've watched the hatchery (mes.) video on it, but being inexperienced I'm a little nervous.I just tried vent sexing 3 of them. The 2 blue ones I tried I couldn't get anything to pop out. The 3rd one was a black one and I got a little pee pee to pop out. So for one- QJ I said pee pee, two- I feel better about being fairly accurate vent sexing, and three- I'm pretty sure I have a pair of blue ducklings.Actually I was fairly shocked I found a pee pee at all, I'm pretty good at not hatching boys for some reason.
I think I'm giving up on trying to hatch goose eggs
The other goose eggs, have they been auto turned or hand turned? I tend to 45* lean shipped goose eggs and hand turn to help the air cells settle during incubation.
Twitch spent so much time being my sidekick, I don't think he knows what a DUCK is!
I cool eggs once a day and mist when cooled unless they are a problem egg. Then they get two Collins a day.