Air cell looks strange - day 21 call duck eggs

[CaliFarmsAR]

Hopefully that's it. Would it be okay to check the eggs a couple times a day for pipping, or is that too much? Just wondering so I don't do anything to harm them.

I believe it’s fine. I check mine a lot when it’s close to hatching time, just make sure the candling is spaced out within a few hours and stuff.

 

[noodledog]

I believe it’s fine. I check mine a lot when it’s close to hatching time, just make sure the candling is spaced out within a few hours and stuff.

Thank you!

 

[nchls school]

Hopefully that's it. Would it be okay to check the eggs a couple times a day for pipping, or is that too much? Just wondering so I don't do anything to harm them.

I check my call duck eggs twice a day; morning and evening. Twelve hour after internal pipping occurs, any eggs not externally pipped get punctured on the air cell end. I do this as I have learned that not doing so cost me the lives of some ducklings. I assist to get the best possible hatch with short billed calls. With my last hatch, one duckling was lost as I waited too long, but ended with 12 healthy ducklings, all of which needed help to hatch.

However, whenever you open your incubator the humidity changes, at the worst time. The change could cost you. Humidity changes can and do make it harder/or impossible to hatch as it dries the membranes. For me, that does not matter as all the eggs are assisted. Over a period of 50+ years, assisted hatches are easy and my wife and I very rarely lose a baby.

I would not tell some one to candle when the hatch date is so close as this could cause them problems and possible losses.

 

[noodledog]

I check my call duck eggs twice a day; morning and evening. Twelve hour after internal pipping occurs, any eggs not externally pipped get punctured on the air cell end. I do this as I have learned that not doing so cost me the lives of some ducklings. I assist to get the best possible hatch with short billed calls. With my last hatch, one duckling was lost as I waited too long, but ended with 12 healthy ducklings, all of which needed help to hatch.

However, whenever you open your incubator the humidity changes, at the worst time. The change could cost you. Humidity changes can and do make it harder/or impossible to hatch as it dries the membranes. For me, that does not matter as all the eggs are assisted. Over a period of 50+ years, assisted hatches are easy and my wife and I very rarely lose a baby.

I would not tell some one to candle when the hatch date is so close as this could cause them problems and possible losses.

Thank you - should I stop turning them once they internally pip?

 

[nchls school]

Turning is no longer necessary as your eggs are close to hatching.

 

[noodledog]

Does this egg look dead? it seems to still be moving a bit. One of them was pushing against the air cell two days ago but the next day it stopped moving and the veins disappeared. The veins seem to have disappeared in all of the eggs and I have no idea what's going on. None have internally pipped.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

What day are they on? It looks to be dead, unfortunately. Is there any movement?

 

[noodledog]

What day are they on? It looks to be dead, unfortunately. Is there any movement?

29. That one is moving a bit. None of the others seem to be. I don't know what I did wrong

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

29. That one is moving a bit. None of the others seem to be. I don't know what I did wrong

Ok, I’d put safety holes in the eggs. Can you hear the duckling peeping? You did nothing wrong, call ducks are extremely hard to hatch!

 

[noodledog]

Ok, I’d put safety holes in the eggs. Can you hear the duckling peeping? You did nothing wrong, call ducks are extremely hard to hatch!

They haven't internally pipped - no peeping. Should I still do safety holes?