Thankyou, our house humidity isi pretty high so wasn't too sure whether to follow manual or go with running it dry for incubation, and went with following the manual, the first egg had lots of liquid in the bottom and green yuck the second not so much but still green gunk. First time hatching...
Hi two of my three ducks have hatched so far ,any one know why I'd find poo in the bottom of the shell? Is it like when babies get stressed in utero and poo,
Just waiting on the last one
Well it's been a disaster and a relative sucess in one, I had three in the bator after the one I was querying interanlly pipped, the second egg went and externally pipped on the bottom, and I'm not gunna lie, with only three eggs I didn't want to risk losing any so helped them out, I've had...
hows this looking, you can see the shadow now is also on the side of the air cell as well as bottom, and moving up an down are we internally pipped? no beak visible as far as i can see without opening it and losing humidity, which I'm not gonna do
still waiting... can't really tell what going on in there, been candling from outside the incubator, and thought one had internally pipped but not really sure now, theres shadowing along the bottom edge of the air cell, which has now slanted and every now and then when the egg moves a little bit...
Thanks I'll put them in lock down, they're having a good old wiggle , and am amazed they've made it this far considering they are shipped eggs and so late in the season, just hope they make the last few days, trying not to be excited just Incase i lose them
sorry to hi jack, I'm a first time incubator, and my duck eggs are on day 22 and wiggling a lot, i know its early so i freaked me out when i saw it, I've candled one because don't want to handle them to much now and there is shadowing into the air cell and lots of movement of the air cell where...
first time incubating duck eggs using a brinsea mini advance, today is day 22 and the eggs are rocking, any advice about whether to raise the humidity now and lock down. i know its too early, or is this wriggling just them getting into position to start attempting internal pipping, advice on the...