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They have been in the incubator about 20 hours now and no sign of external pip. I think they internally pipped about 3 days ago. There has been a little bit of wobbling from both eggs. Is this normal? I’m on pins and needles. I hate to mess up the humidity by opening the incubator but I don’t...

They have only pipped internally. No cracks in the shell yet.

With this incubator I'm not sure how to set the humidity. It seems to only have a temp up and down setting. It has a tray for water in the bottom so I put 100 ml in there which is what the booklet said to do....

UPDATE: A friend loaned me her incubator so I misted the eggs and put them in at 99.4* F....crossing fingers they hatch! They both showed movement when I candled them before I put them in.

I only put the heat lamp when she's not on the nest. She didn't even know the heat lamp was there. lol

Yes, she has hatched a brood every year for the last 3 years. The ducks have a house to themselves and none of the other ducks are broody. They all come back to the house at night and during the day Ive been keeping a heat lamp on the eggs.

I was advised to post this here to see if anyone has any ideas! One of my buff orpington ducks went broody late which I wasn’t thrilled about. I let her keep 3 eggs and two ended up being viable. She sat like a champ for about a month but then we had a cold snap and she’s left the nest. Both...