Finally an external pip

[MrsDuck]

Woo-hoo! Definitely talk (quack) to them! Go little duckies, GO!!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Congratulations!

I've been trying to follow your hatch, but it's very difficult...

Me too, because I set duck eggs the same day as you.

Lisa​

 

[davekrista]

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No Offense taken. I'm still learning my way around. I'm sorry it was so confusing to follow. I didn't know you can subscribe to a thread. Sorry. I will try harder to keep to 1 thread.

 

[davekrista]

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LOL I keep doing that and hubby and kids think i'm crazy but i catch them every once in a while too when they think no one is paying attention.

 

[davekrista]

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Me too, because I set duck eggs the same day as you.

Lisa

How are yours coming around? I hope they are doing well.

 

[davekrista]

Ok quick question. One of the eggs had pipped this afternoon, but I have another that has internally pipped this morning. My husband heard it peeping before work, and I saw (and felt) it trying to break the shell when I candled. You could actually feel it tapping the shell. So when/if and how would I need to help it.... No external pip on that one yet. 24 hours after it internally pips it will suffocate right?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

24 hours after it internally pips it will suffocate right?

Hi! I don't think that is written in stone. I've found ducklings are very active in the shell, then just stop prior to hatching (causing doubt ) and then just finally come on out --- ducklings can be agonizingly slow from pip-to-hatch. And why I like letting broody-hens (not duck-hens, my duck-hens keep the eggs too wet and the eggs go-rotten) hatch duck eggs.

Lisa​

 

[davekrista]

So I got up this morning to a 2nd egg that has pipped. So now I have 2 and they are peeping up a storm. I love that sound, its so cute and I'm totally in love already, just by hearing the little peep voices.

I'm hoping they fully hatch today. I keep talking to them and they peep even more.

 

[duckyfromoz]

lol...you are getting up...and I am going to bed.... I was just looking at the eggs in my hatcher...and listening. Its nearly midnight here- so very quiet and I can hear tapping as well as the little ones talking to each other. I love having the hatcher beside my bed- even if they do sometimes wake me in the middle of the night. Its nice to lay there trying to drift of to sleep and hearing an occasional peep from inside the incubator.

Hope you see some action today and they get a wriggle on and hatch before the end of the day.

 

[FunnyBunnies12]

Keep it up, and use that flashlight, seriously! Also if they stop, don't panic they are resting for their debute. Now that they are externally piped, they should be ok. Some will be born within hours from each other, to minutes, or there will be a race between two on who's going to hatch 1st and it will be seconds. I have to take pictures of my 7 and post them.