Recent content by Mitchellnc

The ducks we have are 2 pekin, 2 khaki Campbell and 1 buff. The drakes are pekin and khaki. So the babies will be one of the those, BTW. I don't know if these are call ducks?

And thats after day 28?

Wow! Thank you all for the insight! I'll do that! I did see what I think are veins, but no movement. But, cracks on eggs look like veins to me, so what do I know? Ill start with the hole and work from there...outside.

Do I try to assist or let it be?

I have 2 ducks in a homemade incubator. 99 degrees/50% humidity pretty constant. No weird smells. Just realized a day and a half ago I should have elevated humidity levels in the last week or so, so working on that. I'm not sure if they are ready at all to hatch. The last 2 eggs I tried...

You mentioned drowning chick from broken air sac. What would that look like? I'm wondering if that is what happened/is happening to my baby duckling I just posted about in another thread. I'm new at this. How would I prevent this? What would one do if an air sac is penetrated accidentally when...

*goopy not good

Thank you for responding. Temp has been constant 99 and humidity has been constant 50. No movement at all that I can tell. Kind of looks good in the egg. His head was up on top earlier. I can't see it now. So I don't know if that means he moved or ?

Its day 25. The egg has been in a homemade incubator. I pipped it 2 days ago. Nothing happened. Yesterday, I took the top off. I saw the little guy wiggle a bit. I applied neosporin on top. There looked like a bit of yolk left. I realized after reading about hatching eggs (my first time for my...