Did i mess up?

Joeym2003

In the Brooder
Nov 20, 2024
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So I had 2 duck hens make a nest just about 30 days ago. All are kahki cambells. And they stopped sitting for about a day and I decided to place the eggs in the incubator. They all looked alive and like they were doing good when I went into lock down about 5 days ago now( I put them in lock down early morning its now late at night for me so it was about 5 days and 16 hours) I could visibly see and could smell that at least 2 of the eggs where rotten from outside the bator and I decided to pull them out. I had not realized that the 3 eggs that were in the middle of my bator had pipped. Did i screw up? The bator was open for maybe a total of 5-10 seconds the humidity has been between 75-80 and temps right at 100. Ive of course closed and left the bator alone. But will they be okay? Should I raise the humidity or just leave it alone? This is only my second time hatching.
 
They will be fine. It takes a lot more than a few seconds for eggs to lose heat and the humidity was kept up, so risk of shrink wrapping isn't high. You should have some new babies in the next couple of hours.
Thank you I had 2 get extremely shrink wrapped last time I hatched so naturally I got worried and figured I'd ask before doing anything or actually panicking
 

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