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One of the others has piped but they are all different ages and some aren’t due to hatch for a week
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It usually 24 hours from internal pip to external. Then it's 24 hours after external to zip. How long ago was that hole made?
Yeah, I know. Just talking about my experience with hatching ducks. Takes about 48 hours all together with my ducks. From pip to hatch I'm meaningDucks take longer than chickens.
That would necessitate opening the incubator and removing the egg to open the hole, which would change the humidity.I'm sure others would advise against this but I wonder if making the hole a little bigger would be okay? Not take the duck out or anything just open the hole a bit?
What do y'all think?
That would necessitate opening the incubator and removing the egg to open the hole, which would change the humidity.
Seriously, baby ducks that are still in the shell sleep just like baby ducks that have hatched. They need to sleep and rest. This length of hatch time is completely normal. I'm not going to guarantee that the duckling is alright, but he most likely is, and the odds of your hurting the hatching duckling are rather greater than your odds of helping.
So how's the egg?Here are some updated photos
I can still hear the duckling but it is getting increasingly feable and I can’t see it moving, I might give it another few hours, then widen the whole a little, what do you think