Duck hatched baby duck today....Help!

[BrittanyDawn2019]

Sounds like it. Hopefully the rest will hatch and you'll be mama duck for a while. Keep us updated.

Thank you so much for the help, it's very encouraging, I was feeling very in over my head for a moment.
-Britt

 

[Miss Lydia]

You did the right thing my Runners I don't think have the nerves to brood they can't sit still that long. You have to hand it to your Runner for staying that long.

 

[BrittanyDawn2019]

Thank you so much for the help, it's very encouraging, I was feeling very in over my head for a moment.
-Britt

Another question.
How long does it take once they start hatching.. two of them have little beak holes. And they are getting warm now. Do I just let them be for awhile? Is it harmful to help?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Don't help it can take 24-48 hrs from pip to zip. -Let me get someone who can help you now

@WVduckchick

 

[BrittanyDawn2019]

Don't help it can take 24-48 hrs from pip to zip. -Let me get someone who can help you now

@WVduckchick

OK , that's what I had thought. To just let them be .

 

[WVduckchick]

So you don’t have an incubator? You are using a sweater and heating pad? Can you control the temperature? It needs to be around 99-100 degrees, as constant as possible.

They need high humidity now too, in order not to dry out, so if you can, enclose everything and add some wet sponges to create some humidity.

 

[BrittanyDawn2019]

So you don’t have an incubator? You are using a sweater and heating pad? Can you control the temperature? It needs to be around 99-100 degrees, as constant as possible.

They need high humidity now too, in order not to dry out, so if you can, enclose everything and add some wet sponges to create some humidity.

Ok I'm on it.
And n, no incubator, they were hatched out in there 12/12 enclosed with the mom but she hasn't had ducklings before and the eggs got cold after the first chick was out and chirping around.
They are in a box with two sweaters on the bottom, over a heating pad. With a light sheet draped over. Iv got the first baby in with the eggs

 

[BrittanyDawn2019]

Ok I'm on it.
And n, no incubator, they were hatched out in there 12/12 enclosed with the mom but she hasn't had ducklings before and the eggs got cold after the first chick was out and chirping around.
They are in a box with two sweaters on the bottom, over a heating pad. With a light sheet draped over. Iv got the first baby in with the eggs

Also I have a heat lamp in the outside coop, should I bring that in?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sounds like maybe the duckling that’s in there should be in its own brooder? @WVduckchick

 

[BrittanyDawn2019]

Sounds like maybe the duckling that’s in there should be in its own brooder? @WVduckchick

I could make him his own little box? Iv got food and water in there to. He's sleeping on the other eggs