2017 Groundhog Day Hatch-a-long!

[Danielle2006]

have you tried the tap test?  
do you see draw down?
what is your humidity at?

what is the tap test? And yes there is a little bit of draw down nothing like my chicks had and the humidty is 75% and has been steady the temp is 99.8 but it rocks between 98 and 99.8

 

[DwayneNLiz]

what is the tap test? And yes there is a little bit of draw down nothing like my chicks had and the humidty is 75% and has been steady the temp is 99.8 but it rocks between 98 and 99.8

tap test, tap the egg, see if it taps back

if temps have been down for any period of time it may hatch late

ducks take WAAAAAYYYYY longer to hatch, is it internally pipped?

 

[CuzChickens]

were you calibrated??

Apparently not, I have no clue what you are talking about....First hatch ever here...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Apparently not, I have no clue what you are talking about....First hatch ever here...

calibration means to make sure it is accurately displaying the temperature

 

[Danielle2006]

tap test, tap the egg, see if it taps back

if temps have been down for any period of time it may hatch late

ducks take WAAAAAYYYYY longer to hatch, is it internally pipped? 

im thinking it is because the air cell looks different but im not a 100% sure. I will try the tap test boy i thought this duck egg would be a breeze since my chicks hatched first and i got the first time hatcher jitters out of the way i was way wrong lol

 

[CuzChickens]

calibration means to make sure it is accurately displaying the temperature 

Yeah, I have not done that....

 

[DwayneNLiz]

im thinking it is because the air cell looks different but im not a 100% sure. I will try the tap test boy i thought this duck egg would be a breeze since my chicks hatched first and i got the first time hatcher jitters out of the way i was way wrong lol

ducks are very different

they internal pip, 24 hours external pip (or safety hole), over the next 24 hours they enlarge the pip, but not zipping yet, they turn in the shell a couple times, and then zip

all said, it can be 24-36 hours from external pip to zip

 

[Danielle2006]

@dewaynenliz

The cloudy yellow spot is what i have been going by for being internally pipped. At first i thought it might have been something wrong be im thinking ot may be normal for pekin ducks? This is the one that will teach me patients Thank you thank you thank for all of your advice and help

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@dewaynenliz
The cloudy yellow spot is what i have been going by for being internally pipped. At first i thought it might have been something wrong be im thinking ot may be normal for pekin ducks? This is the one that will teach me patients Thank you thank you thank for all of your advice and help

lol, good luck, it also looks like your aircell is a bit on the small side
so next time we will work on getting them a little bigger

 

[Danielle2006]

lol, good luck, it also looks like your aircell is a bit on the small side
so next time we will work on getting them a little bigger

lol well see what happened was i got a little bit over excited and have an incubator full that is due by feb 13 i may or may not have just jumped right off the deep end when i got my incubators lol