Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[Colly1470]

Day 27 of duck eggs... HOW DO YOU GUYS DO THIS?!

I am so impatient. My humidity and temp are pretty consistent. Humidity around 66-60, should I raise it?
I hate this waiting game.. it’s just causing me to look up the problematic egg hatching threads. No pipping or chirping yet.. I’m starting to get nervous!

You all have the cutest babies!!

I feel you on the patience issue. My goslings were the slowest hatchers I have ever heard of. The younger on hatched right around day 40.

 

[Morrigan]

Day 27 of duck eggs... HOW DO YOU GUYS DO THIS?!

I am so impatient. My humidity and temp are pretty consistent. Humidity around 66-60, should I raise it?
I hate this waiting game.. it’s just causing me to look up the problematic egg hatching threads. No pipping or chirping yet.. I’m starting to get nervous!

You all have the cutest babies!!

Anything yet?

 

[alexa009]

I couldn't hatch duck eggs, I am far too patient enough with chicken eggs.

 

[Jayellebee]

Anything yet?

One egg pipped at 730pm! Another looks like it has some crack marks in it, but not an actual pip yet. Sooo nerve racking lol.

 

[Morrigan]

A pip!

 

[chantels1]

Tomorrow is lockdown for me with my 10 shipped eggs!!! All are still moving as if yesterday. I worry to much so I usually candle every day or every other day. I do see how it can be bad for shipped eggs, but my own eggs are fair game. I think chickens hatch in pretty dirty environments, so I don't see how candling once a day is any worse than natural exposure.

 

[Morrigan]

My hatchlings are between 9 and 10 days old and I just finished moving them out of the basement and into the outdoor brooder. My rooster was immediately interested. He came over, looked through the screen at them, and then made his pleased, rooster purring sounds. Very glad to have them out of the basement!

 

[chantels1]

My hatchlings are between 9 and 10 days old and I just finished moving them out of the basement and into the outdoor brooder. My rooster was immediately interested. He came over, looked through the screen at them, and then made his pleased, rooster purring sounds. Very glad to have them out of the basement!

It always feels refreshing when you move them outside!

 

[chantels1]

One egg pipped at 730pm! Another looks like it has some crack marks in it, but not an actual pip yet. Sooo nerve racking lol.

Update? How many have hatched?

 

[Morrigan]

It always feels refreshing when you move them outside!

It totally is. I feel good to have them in their forever home now, within the sight, smell and hearing of their eventual flock-mates. They are running around all the new space and seem to really like it. In a few days when they have imprinted this space as "coop", I'm letting them out into a sectioned off part of the run. Really excited to see them go from chicks into chickens.