➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Who leaves the house to go walk outside?

 

[Mylied]

I'm scared to tap them..I already screwed up once and cracked one.

I understand that, but the shells are pretty hard. A fingernail tapping on the blunt end won't hurt. Hopefully they'll just move on their own for you. One of my ducks just internally pipped. I was checking it one last time before lockdown. Now comes the long wait til hatching. I hope yours will be okay too.

 

[Kiki]

Dear Lord, I answered a phone call from DH, got off as quickly as possible and have 1+ pages to catch up on. This thread moves really fast!!

During emergencies..yes.
I can't help it...I am left talking to myself!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

You take the reading you get from the salt test,/calibration and either add or subtract the % diff from the current reading in the bator to determine the % humidity. Ex: calibrated hyrometer reading 67% Rh
75 - 67 ÷ 75 × 100 = -10.66% or -11% Th
If reading higher, 75 - 82 ÷ 75 × 100 = 9.33%Rh so by the example your hygrometer is reading 11% low, actual %Rh is 78% Rh, that's still off but closer than what you were reading/believing the humidity was in the bator. HTH

You must have a PHD in math, I have no idea what this post says.

 

[Kiki]

I understand that, but the shells are pretty hard. A fingernail tapping on the blunt end won't hurt. Hopefully they'll just move on their own for you. One of my ducks just internally pipped. I was checking it one last time before lockdown. Now comes the long wait til hatching. I hope yours will be okay too.

Can you got get a picture of this pip for me just in case I haven't completely failed.

Please?

 

[Kiki]

You must have a PHD in math, I have no idea what this post says.

 

[Kiki]

Could they have fallen asleep because they are about to pip?
Don't they need to be awake to pip?

 

[BantyChooks]

Cracked by flash lights too?

Flashlights, thermometers... you name it! Sally had one smashed by a rogue dog bone once.

 

[Kiki]

You know how when you get sick you are not suppose to ask google anything because you will self diagnose yourself with every disease/problem known to man?


I can not BYC right now because I will find too many things and won't be able to figure out what is good vs wrong things to read.

 

[Kiki]

Flashlights, thermometers... you name it! Sally had one smashed by a rogue dog bone once.

Well I guess we will have to wait and see.

How long should we wait?
I need a time line.
They should start to move sometime with in the next 24 hours?