Do shipped eggs take a little longer to develope?

[newduckie]

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WOW.. I set mine on the 6th and all the duck eggs were infertile, and only 4 chicken eggs left. So far I am seeing nothing. No sound or movement. I cant wait to get off work and go check on them tho.

 

[dianneS]

I've got two chicks so far! The first one to pip turned out to be the second one out of the shell. The first one out of the shell was one that was barely doing anything and I didn't even notice it until it pipped, then zipped then popped out of the shell, fell over on her back and then flung the entire shell across the bator!! She's a fiesty one and one of only two spangled babies I have out of the 11.

Three more have pipped, one is zipping but not as fast as the other two. Everyone is slowing down a bit. Maybe they know its bedtime?

 

[Chicken Chat]

Beautiful babies! Congrats.

 

[mightieskeeper]

what was the total hatch? We need more pics!

 

[dianneS]

Well, I started with 14, just before lockdown I had to cull 3. So 11 went into lockdown. So far we have a total of 8 babies, six are in the brooder, two are still in the bator. One had to be helped out of the egg, so that one will stay in the bator a little longer, the other one in the bator was the last to hatch on its own and she's in there to keep the other one company.

There are three eggs left in the bator. No movement, no pips no nothing out of those, but I'm still going to wait and see. With the other chicks still in the bator with the eggs, they caused such a comotion I couldn't tell if the eggs were rocking on their own, or if the other babies were making them rock. Once I get these last two into the brooder I'll keep an eye on these last three eggs very closely and hope for any signs of life!

Today will be day 23 (actually about 11 PM will officially be day 23) I don't know how much longer to wait on these last three before I give up? But I'm certainly happy with 8 out of 11 and all of the chicks are certainly healthy! I ended up with one red spangled, one black spangled and the rest are barred, so I'm very happy with the colors that I got. I only had three spangled eggs to begin with, so getting two spangled babies is great!