I had 4 internal pippers I discovered at midnight, 30 hours ago, so they could very well have been internally pipped a few hours prior to my discovery- two of them have a star crack NOT a “HOLE” external pip as of exactly midnight last night. Is this still considered an external pip or do I...
My ducklings were extremely vocal when I discovered internal pips at 12am this morning, staying vocal until about 6pm tonight. I’m approaching 24 hours of the discovery of the internal pippers with no external pip yet. I’m now talking to my first pipper- I get no response but she is moving (when...
one of my ten ducklings has pipped- I did not stop turning or ramp humidity at all because I thought I had three to four days to go and was planning on doing this step tomorrow. I just ramped my humidity and will add safety air hole at noon tomorrow if I don’t see an external pip from first...
I noticed a mallard duck in my front yard garden over a period of almost a week and found her nest. About 2:30 AM on 04-06-2020, Mama Duck was taken by a fox- it was COLD & raining, so I scooped up the eggs, googled how to hatch without a “broody duck”, made a cardboard box bator (tin foiled...