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

[LittleChicks4Me]

My fingers are crossed for you! Did you candle before lockdown?

For my first hatch, I had my ear glued to the incubator desperately hoping for a peep. I had heard all these stories of rocking and peeping eggs. My eggs were deathly silent. I was convinced the hatch was a bust. The first thing I noticed near the end of day 21 was a teeny, tiny chip missing on one egg--a chip the size of the head of a pin. I only noticed because the shell was brown and I had the eggs on white paper towels. All evening, nothing more happened but that one, lone missing chip. When I work up the next morning, there was a chick in the incubator.

Yes, and the water dance test. I could still see red blood veins and movement in 2 for sure. One had a bigger air cell due to shipping i think, but there is something in it as well. Just seemed smaller, but still saw a few blood veins. So that one is uncertain. but two are heavy and filled eggs.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

a gypsy family name.. they are reported to used the young women from the family to lure victims

Ouch!!! Thank you for letting me know.

 

[Morrigan]

Morrigan, stop putting that buff o pic in my face, makes me want to die my newhampshire's, feathers blonde!

I love buffs!

 

[Morrigan]

Yes, and the water dance test. I could still see red blood veins and movement in 2 for sure. One had a bigger air cell due to shipping i think, but there is something in it as well. Just seemed smaller, but still saw a few blood veins. So that one is uncertain. but two are heavy and filled eggs.

That sounds promising!

 

[Kiki]

WTH?? Canada produces some quality people. (Note: I said some)
Not yuk. View attachment 1315331

WIckie you woke up?!
I was just trying to leave.

 

[Morrigan]

WIckie you woke up?!
I was just trying to leave.

"you can check out, but you can never leave . . "

 

[Wickedchicken6]

WIckie you woke up?!
I was just trying to leave.

Am I holding onto you? I'm just catching up.
I should make coffee to go with the emoji!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

"you can check out, but you can never leave . . "

Nice!! I like that!!

 

[LittleChicks4Me]

My fingers are crossed for you! Did you candle before lockdown?

For my first hatch, I had my ear glued to the incubator desperately hoping for a peep. I had heard all these stories of rocking and peeping eggs. My eggs were deathly silent. I was convinced the hatch was a bust. The first thing I noticed near the end of day 21 was a teeny, tiny chip missing on one egg--a chip the size of the head of a pin. I only noticed because the shell was brown and I had the eggs on white paper towels. All evening, nothing more happened but that one, lone missing chip. When I work up the next morning, there was a chick in the incubator.

I also did some search and research:
Found this important answer to why it is best not to poke a hole before a pip is seen. May not be in all cases. But this made sense. I would still rescue if needed. Will post the information for others see as well.
At:
The Classroom @ The Coop
RE: Why not help chicks finish hatching?
Richard in MA #88452 - 03/03/10 10:00 PM
Drawdown occurs when the air cell changes shape as the embryo, using the egg tooth, punctures the inner shell membrane and enters the air cell. The egg is designed to allow ease of exit from the egg, and the egg tooth is used to begin unzipping the eggshell in a circular manner, usually at the larger end of the egg.

The initiation of hatch occurs partially from the increased carbon dioxide level in the egg. This causes the embryo to begin twitching its muscles, allowing the inner shell membrane to be punctured by the egg tooth. The chick then begins breathing the air in the air cell. As the carbon dioxide level begins to rise again, the muscularis complexus (the pipping muscle) at the back of the neck begins twitching again, facilitating the hatch. Abdominal muscles also begin twitching, which helps draw the yolk sac into the coelom. Leg muscle twitching helps strengthen the legs.

Assisting the hatch is a difficult decision, and in this author's experience, many aviculturists will do more harm than good by assisting the hatch. Normally the chick will hatch 24-48 hours after drawdown has occurred. By making a pin-hole in the eggshell over the air cell, the carbon dioxide level will drop, actually slowing the hatch. Making a pin-hole or opening the air cell end of the egg should only be done if the vocalization level of the hatching chick is decreasing or other signs indicating that the chick is in trouble are evident (for example, if the chick does not pip into the air cell).

 

[The Golden Egg5]

I'm not going to look back at the pics right now.
I will later but...
I tried to be as careful as possible.
I think I broke open one of the yellow things.


I had helping hands and I was freaking out when anyone else wanted to touch my eggs.
I was scared they were going to smoosh a baby duck!

I’m so sorry for your loss!

I don’t know if anyone answered your question-but the “yellow things” are the yolks. When the chicks are about to hatch, they absorb the yolk into their body and they use that as food for the next couple of days after hatching.