Eggs Hatching Early! New Duckling! Pics

[eggsrcool]

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You can only tell by candling.

 

[sowellj]

 

[sowellj]

 

[sowellj]

This is the egg that started either Sunday or Monday. The whole is bigger and there is the crack across.

 

[sowellj]

This is the end egg. You can barely see the spots with the naked eye but when I took the picture with Macro you can see them. Is this piping?

 

[eggsrcool]

Has there been any progress, at all since yesterday?

Have any hatched?

eggsrcool

 

[sowellj]

There are only three eggs and the countdown is still 2 days. They are due Wed. The right end one started yesterday and there is progress if you look at the earlier picture. I just don't know how far alone he/she should be. The other egg has those spots but nothing else so far. The middle one looks like it has a small spot on the side I couldn't get a good picture.

They are in the classroom and on Monday morning they notice the beak breaking through. Yesterday there was not a smell but if you lean down and smell near the incubator there is an strong odor. Does hatching cause a smell? The middle egg was the one that was moving last Thursday when I candled it.

 

[sowellj]

I forgot to mention. I don't know because I have never hatched before but the duckling doesn't seem very wet from what I can see.

 

[eggsrcool]

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It can cause a slight smell in my experience- but I've only ever hatched chickens and quail. So I'm not sure about ducks. So, have they all pipped. I can see there are no hatchlings, how long have they been trying to hatch. How long from the pip, to when they started to zip?

 

[sowellj]

What exactly is pip and zip?