Hands on hatching and help

[WVduckchick]

Okay thank you so much! Also the one who externally pipped still seems to have made no farther progress. Around 3:30pm today it would of been 24hrs since I realized the pip, if it still looks the same should I help it? It's only a small pip I'd just open that up to give it some air.

This is a call duck, correct? If so, and if it doesn't make any progress at all, and goes past 24 hours, then I would probably expand the pip a bit to see what's going on. Moisten any exposed membranes with Vaseline, coconut oil, Neosporin... something of that nature.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Okay thank you so much! Also the one who externally pipped still seems to have made no farther progress. Around 3:30pm today it would of been 24hrs since I realized the pip, if it still looks the same should I help it? It's only a small pip I'd just open that up to give it some air.

Can I ask, from pure nosiness, where are you located?

 

[lizardboy55]

This is a call duck, correct?  If so, and if it doesn't make any progress at all, and goes past 24 hours, then I would probably expand the pip a bit to see what's going on.  Moisten any exposed membranes with Vaseline, coconut oil, Neosporin... something of that nature. 

When I bought hatching eggs off eBay last year they said call ducks. The ones that hatched (the ducks we got these eggs from) are smaller ducks and do fly and seem to act like call ducks. Their smaller then mallards. Yet even they hatched late. So honestly I'm not too sure. The one who I thought pipped Monday I guess never did because this morning I saw an internal pip and now there is an external one. Also the one who externally pipped yesterday made another external pip next to the other one, neither of which are an actual hole so to say. Is this bad? Should I open one of the pips up?

 

[lizardboy55]

Can I ask, from pure nosiness, where are you located?

Northern New Jersey

 

[WVduckchick]

When I bought hatching eggs off eBay last year they said call ducks. The ones that hatched (the ducks we got these eggs from) are smaller ducks and do fly and seem to act like call ducks. Their smaller then mallards. Yet even they hatched late. So honestly I'm not too sure. The one who I thought pipped Monday I guess never did because this morning I saw an internal pip and now there is an external one. Also the one who externally pipped yesterday made another external pip next to the other one, neither of which are an actual hole so to say. Is this bad? Should I open one of the pips up?

Maybe they are crosses or just bantam ducks. I guess the question should be Do they have really short bills? The little stubby bills are what makes it difficult for call ducks to hatch. If they have more of a regular sized bill, then maybe they won't need as much assistance. I'm just guessing. My single hatch of call ducks, I had to assist all 13 that externally pipped. They would not have survived. But my Swedish ducks don't have much trouble hatching on their own.

Ducks in general will make lots of extra pips sometimes, smacking around while they get into position. So I wouldn't mess with the pip until you suspect it is distressed. 4, 5, 6 smacks on the shell before they start zipping is not uncommon. I had a call duck make a pip, then another, over a full inch away from the first. Then he went back closer to the original spot. No idea what that duckling was doing! lol

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Northern New Jersey

Oh, I thought maybe you were in a different country cause this morning you said "3:30PM today" I'm assuming you meant AM.

Maybe they are crosses or just bantam ducks. I guess the question should be Do they have really short bills?  The little stubby bills are what makes it difficult for call ducks to hatch.  If they have more of a regular sized bill, then maybe they won't need as much assistance.  I'm just guessing.  My single hatch of call ducks, I had to assist all 13 that externally pipped.  They would not have survived.  But my Swedish ducks don't have much trouble hatching on their own.

Ducks in general will make lots of extra pips sometimes, smacking around while they get into position.  So I wouldn't mess with the pip until you suspect it is distressed.  4, 5, 6 smacks on the shell before they start zipping is not uncommon.  I had a call duck make a pip, then another, over a full inch away from the first.  Then he went back closer to the original spot.  No idea what that duckling was doing!  lol 

You didn't tell him which way to go? Lol

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh, I thought maybe you were in a different country cause this morning you said "3:30PM today" I'm assuming you meant AM.
You didn't tell him which way to go? Lol

I said I wouldn't mess with it, unless it seems distressed. The extra punches are not cause for alarm.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I said I wouldn't mess with it, unless it seems distressed.  The extra punches are not cause for alarm.

No...lol you said you didn't know what the duck was doing in your hatch, I said because you didn't tell him which way to go when he started pipping...lol

 

[newchickmama91]

Does anyone's duck eggs have like dark blotches inside? My calls are on day 21 I can see moving slightly as they've filled the eggs abit now and veins but all the ducks I've tried have had this is it normal? Or is it bacteria? I'll be gutted if it's bad

 

[WVduckchick]

No...lol you said you didn't know what the duck was doing in your hatch, I said because you didn't tell him which way to go when he started pipping...lol

I thought you meant I didn't tell lizardboy which way to go....to help yet or not.

Does anyone's duck eggs have like dark blotches inside? My calls are on day 21 I can see moving slightly as they've filled the eggs abit now and veins but all the ducks I've tried have had this is it normal? Or is it bacteria? I'll be gutted if it's bad

Not sure what you are referring to?