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  1. BigWeenMachine

    Hands on hatching and help

    Agree with Wuvduck that calls are much harder. Even regular ducks can have a tougher time getting out and require assistance. I had 3 that pipped on the sides rather than the air sacs and I had to assist all 3 and managed to save 2 of them. I think I had to assist 2 or 3 other ducks too...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I'd leave him in for awhile. He'll help coax the rest of the babies to come outta their shell. My favorite part of hatches is to catch the first one zipping and then play cheeping duckling audios for it and watch em come out. Got lucky with my last one and got to watch the first one hatch and...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    They are anconas. Beautiful ducks, I'll take some pics in a lil bit and post em. Gettin ready to take them outside since it's 80 degrees today. I set 18 eggs a month ago in this incubator, figuring it didn't matter they were crammed in there so tight cos I figured there would be a couple that...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I did right after it happened and most of them were still moving. Only one actually had blood coming out of the exposed membrane but most looked okay. I know they are strong ducks cos we just had a hatch last week that yielded 37 out of 40 that went into lockdown and all of them are strong and...
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    HELP!!! I had an accident and knocked all my eggs off the counter.

    Okay, my humidity is at 75% right now, should I bump that up higher? Maybe 80-85%?
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Heres a better shot of the front view. It's kinda tough to see all the cracks but you can tell pretty easily that the center one on this is smashed pretty bad.
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Here's one side. You can see the badly damaged one second from the right but most look more like the 3rd from the right. I will try to take another pic from the other side, the pic I did isn't showing up very well.
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    Hands on hatching and help

    hang on, I'll get a couple real quick
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    Hands on hatching and help

    They are just about to finish day 26 and it happened a day and a half ago. I wish I had got on here when it happened cos I never knew to try putting something on the cracks to try and keep em from drying out. They have been in lockdown since it happened with 75% humidity but I can clearly see...
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    HELP!!! I had an accident and knocked all my eggs off the counter.

    Hi, the night before last I was prepping our incubator for lockdown and while filling the water trays I knocked the egg basket off the counter and damaged 16 of the 18 eggs in there. Some have small cracks while others are pretty smashed up. I put them back in the incubator in lockdown to see...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Hey, any help with this would be great. The night before last, I was prepping our little brinsea incubator for lockdown and had a disaster. While filling the water tray, I bumped the egg basket off the counter and knocked all 18 eggs onto the floor. All but 2 had some type of damage, ranging...
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    Anyone know of any bird swaps in Colorado?

    Anyone know of any bird swaps in Colorado for May 6th?
  13. BigWeenMachine

    Hands on hatching and help

    Anyone know of any bird swaps this weekend in Colorado? We have 38 baby ancona ducks that have hatched in the last couple days and they need a new home!
  14. BigWeenMachine

    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    And, of course when they get farther along you may hafta pick them up to see better but with my duck eggs I think I coulda candled for almost 3 weeks without handling them. I only candled twice this time though.
  15. BigWeenMachine

    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    I was candling mine without picking them up. Just turn all the lights off and take a good flashlight and shine it against the top of the eggs to make sure they are developing. The only ones I picked up were the ones I was unsure of to get a better look.
  16. BigWeenMachine

    EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

    Hi, we have 42 duck eggs in the incubator that finished 28 days about 3 hours ago. The first one hatched last night, roughly 17 hours ago and we have 13 total that are out, with probably at least a dozen that are pipped and should be hatching soon. Many of them, however, are either taking...
  17. BigWeenMachine

    Hands on hatching and help

    I had a very similar experience last year with my duck eggs. all the shipped eggs just died in the last week of incubation. I also had that same hygrometer last year and when I actually got some accurate hygro/thermometers that were built for incubators I discovered that that particular...
  18. BigWeenMachine

    Hands on hatching and help

    Is that a shipped egg? I had a couple last year that looked like that and they were both shipped eggs that had been scrambled. Before I set them, I could see that the air sac was not stable and floating around inside but I tried them anyways. One died shortly after a week and the other...
  19. BigWeenMachine

    Hands on hatching and help

    I had one duck that pipped and then sat for 56 hours before I finally had to literally pull him out. I had been assisting him for probably at least 16 hours before I finally made the call to get him out on his own. Sometimes they can be very slow to hatch. Did notice on an earlier group of...
  20. BigWeenMachine

    Searching for a new incubator

    Brinseas are good. My pride and joy is an old Lyon incubator. It is an antique but boy is it accurate, highly recommend it if you're lucky enough to find a used one. Getting ready to fill it up in a few days but I think it'll hold about 50 duck eggs if you're not using the auto turner. Just...
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