Hi stranger, come get your bator when your home lol I don't need more temptation having it around!!!!
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Hi stranger, come get your bator when your home lol I don't need more temptation having it around!!!!
Temptation lies in everyone of us on this site
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It just takes friends (enablers) to make the world go round .
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boy I haven't done that for along time have I???![]()
Absolutely gorgeous, Sally!
Welcome to BYCDucklings can take a few days to complete a hatch from start to finish, so it's hard to judge when to intervene. I've had a duckling take 4 days once and it was completely fine, it just needed a bit more time to get ready for it's debut. But as a rough guide: ducklings can take on average 24 hours from internal pip to external pip, another 24 hours from external pip to zipping and then another 8 from there to complete the hatch. And some can take much longer. From your description of the first (26 day) duckling's activity it sounds like she may be thinking about zipping. It is possible that she made a little breathing hole in the membrane, that you can't see. (I've seen this before with chick hatches.) If she's active and not showing signs of distress I'd leave her, but if you think she needs help you can make a little breathing hole in the membrane for her, but only a tiny one and be very careful.![]()
The 29 day duckling: I think with this one I think it would be a good time to create an artificial pip hole in the shell. The article explains it, but I'll tell you what I do. What I do is take I needle/pin, make sure it's clean first, and scratch a little line over and over and over on the shell until I'm through. Then I use a pair of tweezers to make the hole a bit bigger. I do this right at the end of the egg, far away from the air sac line, to minimise risk of hurting the chick/duckling. Then replace the egg in the incubator and let the little one get on with it. Sometimes they just need a bit of fresh air to get them going.
Hope this helps.
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