8 eggs set and go!

[Kleonaptra]

They all look very dark... Could my new drake really be that active already?

 

[Kleonaptra]

Three external pips are peeping to each other..."I'm over here, someone over there?" "yeah me! I'm over here!" "hey, I'm here too!"
Two eggs doing definite wriggles and three not doing anything...im hoping they made small holes I cant see and are having rest time

 

[Kleonaptra]

Pip one, now duckling one, is out. Cuddled up next to pip three. Pip two got knocked over but I put him right again. I swear, for the first five minutes all the eggs looked exactly the same and I had no idea where the duck came from...

 

[Kleonaptra]

Humidity steady around 80% temp around 37.5
I hate this part. Duck one gets excited and knocks the eggs around....surely this is bad for the little siblings?

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Humidity steady around 80% temp around 37.5
I hate this part. Duck one gets excited and knocks the eggs around....surely this is bad for the little siblings?

I can't believe you're still up, but I've stayed up that late a few times when ducklings were hatching.

I don't know that it's bad for them. It's just what happens. When I have hatches happening at different times, I take out the hatched ones and put them in a brooding incubator unless they're hatching very close together. I think it's so cute how the hatched ones start pulling pieces of the shell from the unhatched ones trying to help them hurry up and get out.

 

[Kleonaptra]

I've read they can stay in for 24 hours. I have no choice right now - I'm too tired to put together a makeshift brooder, hubby hasn't wired up my light fitting yet, and I have three ducks in sick bay. Plus the cold weather is breaking the heatwave quite rapidly, I had to cover the Bator with a blanket.
I'm often up this late, I work nights. I'm always about checking my babies, cats horses pigeons..

 

[Orca5094]

Yay, so exciting!!

You can always put the unhatched eggs into a little box or plastic container inside the incubator to keep the hatched ducklings from kicking them around. That does happen, though. All the noise and movement outside helps encourage them to hatch, but I don't like mine getting kicked around so much, personally.

You'll need to post some pics soon of your new arrivals!

 

[Kleonaptra]

Three ducklings out 5 other eggs have pipped. Only one had not external pipped, I candles him and he was making a good go of it so a scratched him out a tiny safe hole. So that's 5 in the Bator working on getting born and three in the brooder...i got my old fitting to work (desperation does great things) but I forgot I only have a 75 watt! I put a hot water bottle in too. It's too cold today!

 

[Kleonaptra]

Dammit! I nicked blood vessels in two of them. They have been pipped for over 12hrs and I thought id just see if they needed help. I hope they will be ok..other eggs are looking good. Why do I have to be so impatient?

 

[Orca5094]

Yes, please just force yourself to be patient. I now it's hard but, sit on your hands! (You stopped the bleeding though, right?) The vast majority of eggs do not need help hatching and it causes more harm than good to try and help. Ducklings rest usually around 24 hours between each step of hatching, so 12 hours with no progress is no need to worry at all. They need that time to rest and finish absorbing the blood in the membrane vessels and also their yolk. Leave them be and I'm sure they'll hatch just fine.