yes he detached from the egg a while ago... and is chirping loads! i put him back into his incubator for another couple hours to fully dry!
While people are here i thought i could quickly slip in this question as no one seemed to answer it on another thread...
these are welsh harlequin...
i am too scared that i will rip a blood vessel, does this duck seem ready to come out... (this is a different egg as the other duckling pushed its way out after some help!)
Currently incubating 3 duck eggs ( one has already hatched yesterday)
The other 2 had pipped almost 50 hours ago and had made NO progress at all, so after reading articles it said to peel off abit of the shell. i did that to find out they were completely shrink wrapped and could hardly move...
Thankyou so much for the reply! was beginning to worry...
so only one of the eggs i can hear chirping coming from inside, but the other i dont hear any. (the one that is chirping had pipped before the other one)
i believe it has been around 40 hours since the one chirping had pipped, and the...
Hi i am hatching 3 welsh harlequin ducks, -one of which has hatched (day 27)
-two of which have made a small crack in the egg over 30 hours ago and has not made any progress. (currently on day 28)
I may be over thinking but isnt this a bit too long for them to not have made any more progress...
oh no ive realised why he hasnt been eatinf any food, its due to the feeder, he doesnt realise its in there as we made it so its a tub with a pipe in it so they stick there heds theough and eat it, is there any other feeder ideas that doesnt make all the food mush from the rain?
So chip is 11 weeks and here is a pic of him (it doesnt let me attach photos on this so u have to use a link from insta)
And whats fermenting feed? i will look into it is there any other tips