Hatching ducks and chicks started

[randerson846]

Hi all i have put in 3 duck eggs in my incubator at 6 pm tonight, and in 1 week I will be putting in 46 chicken eggs, all different breeds, i have 28 shipped eggs and 18 non shipped which i got from a friend, the shipped ones include a columbine hens, cream legbars, welsummers, leghorns warrens, bluebelles, light sussex, and black rock. these hens are all feee ranged with several cockerels - welsummer, silver laced wyandotte, cream legbar and burford brown, so who the father is of each egg is anyone's guess! And the 18 i got from are all pure bred, i have some RIR, silkies and i cant remember the rest haha so i have put in my 3 duck eggs so i hope i get at least a few, i would like to have the 3 ducks hatch, and i hope i get at least a few chicks but i guess ill hope for the best
All are welcome to join in no matter what ur hatching

 

[randerson846]

I candled the 3 duck eggs today all three are veining and tomorrow I'm putting the chicken eggs in

 

[randerson846]

Candled my three duck eggs (day 11 today), and they are all moving so excited now one is moving like crazy, and the other two are moving every now and again i candled a few of my chicken eggs day 4)and im happy to say i have about 5 silkie eggs and of the two i candled they are both growing i didnt candle all 48 eggs, but of the ones i did candle (about 20 )2 or 3 are in fertile one had the ring of death :/ and all the rest are growing so excited

 

[randerson846]

So i candled all my eggs, and there was one with the ring of death, and 16 that were infertile, or just didn't grow, and that leaves me with 3 duck eggs, and 24 chick eggs although there is one which i cant find ahaha i have it wrote down on a note pad (i numbered them all) and i couldn't see it, but i didn't want to look for it for to long as the eggs were starting to cool down, so i have 27 viable eggs(not including the one i cant find ahah) due to hatch on the 20th of may 15 days to go

 

[randerson846]

Ducks are moving like crazy and the chicks are starting to move as well now, there is only 11 days left and i had one of my hens go broody on monday and she is sitting on 8 eggs as well, so she has been sitting for 4 days now she is 6 days behind the others

 

[randerson846]

Went into turn it one last time and a duck has pipped !!!!!!!!!! It's only day 24!!

and this morning I went up and I heard a bit of peeping, and the hole is bigger now and I can see it's beak move and the other one I saw moving has also pipped and I had candles the 3rd one and it has internally pipped

 

[randerson846]

 

[randerson846]

One of the ducks has made a bigger hole and now u can see it's beak

 

[randerson846]

One hatched!!!! I woke up and my duck had just got out his leg was still in the shell he trying to walk around the other two are still trying

 

[randerson846]