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    Egg Watch 2021

    Hi y'all, Just had a good hatch where 5 healthy baby ducklings hatched with no issue. Hooray. One sibling is taking their sweet time, though has externally pipped. The last egg, though, is leaving me a bit worried that something is wrong. Picture attached. No movement, no response to...
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    Counting chickens before they hatch

    So here's a question I can probably hunt down somewhere online with some digging, but I didn't think air-cells formed unless the egg was fertilized. Have I been wrong?
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    Counting chickens before they hatch

    Hi y'all, Last 3 days for these fellers, which had been stored in unknown temp/humidity for a couple days prior to my getting my hands on them and getting them into an incubator. Incubator lockdown has started, but the last candling I did makes me wonder if I'll get any more than that first...
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    Thank you again for your help. The sad update is that the chick had died hours before inside the egg, as feared, looking like due to lack of oxygen. Lesson learned, I think, is to intervene earlier when things seem off. Your link was extremely helpful. When I noticed the air cell was all but...
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    Aw man that's what I was afraid of and why I wanted to act earlier :( Will give it a try and see what's going on. Thank you again!
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    No external pip :( When the others were playing soccer with him/her and chirping around the incubator, s/he was chirping, but never pipped. I'll sit with the current safety hole for maybe 12 hours before going further, or if there's no response you think it's worth expanding the hole a bit...
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    Thank you! Will try a very tiny safety hole and see if that helps. Wish I'd asked you earlier!
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    I understand the concern, but it had been more than 30 hours since the others had hatched and this one was chirping. I think we were beyond yolk absorption, and was looking for bad positioning or even signs of an internal pip, both of which there are not :-/
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    Chirping stopped inside egg

    I had a clutch of 5 eggs, 4 of which hatched successfully without incident yesterday. Am using the Nurture Right 360 incubator. The last egg was heard chirping yesterday, but today has gone quiet. I was concerned that something had gone wrong, so tried to candle the egg quickly (I know the...
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