duck hatching

We have a Muscovy hen, Mo, and she ended up with only 2 eggs left due to a snake. One has hatched and the other has not. How long should we wait, before taking that egg away? The first one hatched about 2 days ago. All the Muscovies stayed in the run the last 2 nights, like family in the...

Hello! I want to hatch some duck eggs this year but I have a few questions first! I want to make sure I do everything right to ensure an easy, effective, and safe hatch. (I apologize in advance if these seem obvious to some! It’s only my third time using an incubator and would be my first time...

I might be going crazy but two of my duck eggs have very low air cells like they drop just before hatching and I can clearly see one of them pushing against the membrane with its beak. (It's doing some kind of shadow inside the air cell) This is a very small Pekin duck egg ( size of a normal...

Hi all! I’ve looked at other similar threads but wanted direct advice. My duckling externally pipped about 40 hours ago but has not started zipping yet. I haven’t seen the egg rocking and am not sure if it passed away inside. The other duck externally pipped 24 hours ago and seems like it’s...

Hi everyone! We've hatched our first duck eggs on Monday. There was one which took longer, we thought originally it was dead but it pipped eventually. It ended on that, though, so we thought we'd help him out. The egg was very dry, we must have left too much humidity out when handling his...

Hi, I've had a black pacific duck egg incubating for 30 days (usually 28-30 day incubation period) and I think it may have died but this is the first time I have ever incubated an egg so I am rather unsure how long I leave the egg until I investigate. There is a lot of conflicting information...

My duck eggs are about 29 days old and I have checked all 12 of them and they haven’t piped yet. They are being sat on by the momma, I have candled them many times and they are alive. They are mallard or a pekin/mallard. Should I do something?

Hi, I have 2 ducklings eggs that have made pretty big external pip holes about 2 days ago and since then they’ve not made much progress. they’re peeping like crazy and moving but the beaks are outside the shell. They’re very loud but sound as if they are in distress. The other eggs have pipped...

Hi guys! This is my first time hatching duck eggs and I'm currently on day 27. All five of my eggs are still alive, with two having broken the internal air sack yesterday, and two beginning to pip. The one with the shell missing a bit began pipping yesterday afternoon, but I'm a little nervous...

I'm hatching some Khaki Campbell duck eggs and I know they are supposed to go on lockdown the 25th day and hatch around the 28th day. I know to keep the humidity higher around 65%, but I've seen different websites recommend different temperatures and some don't even mention changing the...

Hey all, hatching my first ducks, and egg pipped yesterday morning, and not much progress has happened. Using nurture right 360, I'm on day 27, temp has been dropped to 98.5 at lockdown, and humidity is at 78 percent. I'm attaching some pics from first pip to now. Sorry if this has been asked 5...

I am letting my fawn and white runner Hatch her own eggs naturally. We only have her and one white pekin drake. I have candled the eggs every few days. Some of the eggs had looked as of they were further developed than others. Thus may have been because she was determined sitter before she was...

My welsh harlequin duck has been sitting on her eggs for 31 days now. I’m getting concerned that they aren’t going to hatch. When should I start worrying?

We have 5 abandoned mallard eggs that we were able to collect and have a Brinsea 600 incubator that have been in for 26 days. yesterday AM around 8am (a little over 24 hours ago) 2 of the duckling eggs seemed to have a “pip” in the shell. A few hours later, one more pipped. The pip is truly...

Duck made external pipe yesterday mid day. Nothing since. It’s been around 24 hours. Normal?

Hi All I am hatching a few Pekin ducks and I am on day 28 and super stressed, well thats up until now I found info on this page about it taking 36 to 48 hours from pip to zip problem is I tried to help one its still in the membrane (I was being paranoid that it was drowning in the shell as my...

Hi! I have two runner duck eggs in the incubator (hovabator, if that matters) that I put in lockdown on Saturday morning. I’ve been keeping humidity about 80% since lockdown. They’ve both been rocking and rolling and peeping. I noticed what I thought was a pip on the skinny end (non air cell)...

He just came completely out. He hatched on the narrow end of the egg. I actually didn't think he was gonna hatch at all bc his egg had some major bruising on the outside. When he hatched the inside of his egg was still bloody, not oozing blood, just a light coating, he has blood on him and his...

Hi all, I have a question: My duck eggs are on day 22 and yesterday we noticed two of them rocking on and off for awhile. They are not due to hatch until the 28th day but does this rocking mean they could hatch earlier? Any help would be appreciated, not that experienced with hatching ducks!

My first duckling is on its way! He is already breaking through and making lots of noise. I just have a few questions. What do I do after he hatches? Let him be? For how long? Does he need food or water? I’m new so please explain everything I need to know and do from the time they start to hatch