Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[Dianne1928]

OMG! those babies are all so cute!!!!!! My next hatch is coming up. The weather here has been so weird. Last week it was beautiful for a couple of days. Then massive wind, and then hail, and it froze solid last night. It messed with the temp in my big incubator. It went down to 97 degrees last night. I hope it didn't make a mess of my eggs. So I am thinking I need to set the thermostat in my house for a min. temp of 65. I woke up shivering. Good thing my puppies piled in under the covers with me.

 

[Julie Birb]

My newest! 2 black bibbed, one chocolate bibbed, one chocolate ancona and 2 gray pied (drying)

sooo precious and adorable.

 

[Julie Birb]

Ahah I know I love them!!

I sure can see why!!

 

[AmandaVirginia]

Third clutch due Monday Lockdown is Friday morning! They are already rocking and preparing to pip, I can see them pushing on their membrane when I candle them!

 

[Dianne1928]

This is weird. I think I lost them all except the one hatching. Most of the veins disappeared. I can see embryos and the rest is clear! Just over night. Both incubators. Does anyone know if the sudden cold front could have done this? Or anything else? I just don't get it???

 

[Lacrystol]

This is weird. I think I lost them all except the one hatching. Most of the veins disappeared. I can see embryos and the rest is clear! Just over night. Both incubators. Does anyone know if the sudden cold front could have done this? Or anything else? I just don't get it???

OMG, DIANNE, that's Horrible. talk to me what happened? Cold front will slow them down unless it's in freezing temp and it's been a few hours.

 

[Dianne1928]

on the 13th I moved eggs from the big incubator to the little brincia. It was spring then. I checked all 30 eggs and all looked fine. Then a storm front moved in. Yesterday was the worst. It froze hard and the house got cold too. I checked the eggs in the little bator, and the ones due on the 25th were all clear. The one I opened was like water. Not sticky, but clear water with an embryo. I checked the big bator, and the same thing! The 2 due on the 21st look ok. one is pipping, the other not, but I still see veins in that one. I will go through the big one better, and move all the eggs out, disinfect it, and start over. I just don't understand.

I know air pressure changes with a storm, maybe that was it.

 

[clousert]

on the 13th I moved eggs from the big incubator to the little brincia. It was spring then. I checked all 30 eggs and all looked fine. Then a storm front moved in. Yesterday was the worst. It froze hard and the house got cold too. I checked the eggs in the little bator, and the ones due on the 25th were all clear. The one I opened was like water. Not sticky, but clear water with an embryo. I checked the big bator, and the same thing! The 2 due on the 21st look ok. one is pipping, the other not, but I still see veins in that one. I will go through the big one better, and move all the eggs out, disinfect it, and start over. I just don't understand.

I know air pressure changes with a storm, maybe that was it.

Too cold for young embryos. Older embryos can sustain colder temps for longer but young ones cannot. If they spent all night at low temps it could have been what happened. I'm so sorry for your loss of the little ones.

 

[Dianne1928]

Too cold for young embryos. Older embryos can sustain colder temps for longer but young ones cannot. If they spent all night at low temps it could have been what happened. I'm so sorry for your loss of the little ones.

The big incubator went down to 97, and the little one held at 99.

 

[WVduckchick]

on the 13th I moved eggs from the big incubator to the little brincia. It was spring then. I checked all 30 eggs and all looked fine. Then a storm front moved in. Yesterday was the worst. It froze hard and the house got cold too. I checked the eggs in the little bator, and the ones due on the 25th were all clear. The one I opened was like water. Not sticky, but clear water with an embryo. I checked the big bator, and the same thing! The 2 due on the 21st look ok. one is pipping, the other not, but I still see veins in that one. I will go through the big one better, and move all the eggs out, disinfect it, and start over. I just don't understand.

I know air pressure changes with a storm, maybe that was it.

Wow, so sorry to hear that! 97 wouldn't seem like it would have hurt them that bad for a few hours?? And pipping already, but not due till the 21st? 5 days early?? Hmmmm... I'm sorry, but are you sure all your dates are right???? Grasping at straws...