I would like to keep this thread open over the next couple days just Incase I run into any problems and need some advice. I appreciate you all replying to me and helping calm my nerves. Hatching ducks really tests ones patients!
I have one that had hatched This morning. It didn’t absorbs all the yolk but he is doing just fine! He is still in the brooder drying off :) the one I thought was dead and opened hasn’t made much progress so I gave him a little air hole and his beak is visable. I’m going to wait a little while...
ETA: I also opened one up last night that I thought had died, it wasn’t moving and there was a long crack at the top of the egg (small part) I thought it was going to explode because it was dead. turns out it’s very much alive and pipping the wrong end. So now I have an egg with quite a big hole...
Well it’s been a full 24 hours, we broke the membrane a little last night just because I didn’t feel comfortable not giving him a “safe” hole he could breath from. He is still tapping in the same place he was before I went to bed last night. It looks like 3 more have externally pipped but again...
Hello all I’m new here and this is my first batch of duck eggs that I’m hatching. 13 to be exact. I wasn’t actually expecting all 13 to be fertile but hey, lots of fluff butts to love . So one of the duck eggs have externally popped, about a thumb nail size but has not broken the membrane yet...