Gah! Got my first baby today!
This is the second time I have attempted to hatch anything. Last time around I got two goslings(out of 5 eggs). This time I set 28 eggs total, 27 pekin eggs and one runner egg.
Two Pekin eggs never developed and were discarded at the one week mark and I had another Pekin quitter a week later.
We are on day 28 and this runner baby hatched today. It is so adorable! It has black on its bill and some on its foot.
Many of the Pekin eggs have external pips, but only one has done some serious zipping. He will probably hatch tonight or early tomorrow morning.
I have had to sit on my hands with these guys. Good thing I read online that ducks had pretty slowly otherwise I would think things were wrong.
I do have one pekin egg that I'm concerned is shrink wrapped. I was having trouble during lockdown with keeping the humidity up. For a day or two, it fluctuated a lot and was as low as 30-40% sometimes. The membrane is yellowish and this egg has not progressed at all for over 24 hours. Any thoughts on whether or not I should help? Yesterday I did coat it with coconut oil.
Congrats!
