I have 8 duck eggs in the incubator,.over the last two days they have grown an enormous amount but my humidity is at 55-60% all the time. They are 20 days and due for the 6th. I don't know why this is happening and this is my first time incubating duck eggs, but I have done chicken and this...
Give it some sugar water and offer food with crumbled hard boiled egg yolk. I would keep an eye on the little one and put her in a separate brooding box. If she's still alive and alert is a few days I would put her back with the other chicks.
Eggs can take 12-32 hours to externally pip after the internal one. If you hear peeping then it has internally pipped. From pip to zip it can take a few hours to 12 hours or sometimes more. I'm hatching duck eggs and they are under one of our mamas (Swedish ducks are the best mamas). But there's...
She said she was thinking it was 18 days old. Not hatching just yet, and before it gets positioned for hatching it has to break the airsac which it didn't do.
Day 17 or 18, possibly 19. If you look you can see a lot of the internal stuff is still outside its body but it also filled a decent amount of the egg. It was also starting to tuck it's head. Be very careful with the humidity it's super important.
The dogs aren't aggressive towards the animals, but my pitbull likes small animals that squeak (kittens, chicks, ducklings, mice, and birds). We can't really break her from this as we have tried everything. The ducklings are the only ones that could go through because the chicks and turkeys are...
I hope they don't fully hatch till at least 1 pm. We still haven't gotten the chicken wire to put along the chain link fence. My backyard fence is right beside the pasture where all my farm animals live and that fence is chain link. The mama duck decided to build her nest right against the...