2019 may hatch a long!!!!!!

[MagpieDucks]

View attachment 1779144 First time hatched here. Can anyone tell if this is still alive? This is day 21 rouen/Swedish duck. I know the picture stinks I can try to take a better one. The air cell seems awfully small.View attachment 1779130View attachment 1779130 View attachment 1779131

I think it might be dead.

 

[MagpieDucks]

18 eggs total! I just got my auto turner today, so hopefully everything works the way it’s supposed to.

 

[brickwall524]

I have 40 eggs in the incubator going into lockdown today. It’s only my second hatch so I’m hoping that fixing the temp will help me do better this time! There is quite an assortment of breeds-Spitzhauben, ameraucanas, Easter Eggers, Orpingtons, Delawares, welsummers and a few Cochin bantams. I have a smaller incubator due later this month that has bielefelder eggs but I candled them last night and only one appears to be developing

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

@Magnolia Ducks, I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about duck eggs. Do you see any movement when you candle that one?

No I don't and it appears to have black spots separate from the fetus. The other egg has nice red veins. I suspect my humidity is way to high

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I think it might be dead.

I do too. Since I have a borrower incubator I am going to toss it. I am sure the other is still alive. Wonder if I should remove the water until lockdown.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I think it might be dead.

Thanks I just needed a little push to throw it out. One of those stories.... Smelled it before and it didn't smell good. The other egg smells fine. Bad egg went with my DH to the back 40.
Edit: I was attacked by spell check

 

[Trux]

PIP-ity do da PIP-ity day! Got my first pip of the year!

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Ok funny to me, but DH took bad egg to the back 40 on the lawnmower. We have a really big yard and a really big lawnmower with a roll bar. He cocked back for a big heave and broke the egg on the roll bar. It was definitely dead and black slime went all over the lawnmower. Is it really bad that I giggled.

 

[Trux]

Ok funny to me, but DH took bad egg to the back 40 on the lawnmower. We have a really big yard and a really big lawnmower with a roll bar. He cocked back for a big heave and broke the egg on the roll bar. It was definitely dead and black slime went all over the lawnmower. Is it really bad that I giggled.

A baseball pitcher he will never be...I would have laughed too

 

[AUChickenGal]

Chick #2 is here!

Looks like they’re both black. The hatching eggs were supposedly an assortment of BBS and Wheaten flocks. Just my luck I’d end up with two black chicks. But they’re out and fluffy and adorable! They’re both tucked under their heat plate for the night now. I’ll work on getting them eating and drinking in the morning.