Ok, so 4 out of my 5 ducks decided to arrive after incubating chaos. I can't believe it. Three of the ducks hatched normaly. The one duck was just barely pipped internally. After 36 hours after his sibs hatched, I did the hot bathroom trick and removed his "hatch", I put him back in the bator to finish the job. Yesterday, no progress. That little bugger stayed in that egg without a top all curled up in a ball, just peeping. I figured he would die if he wasn't strong enough to try to wiggle out, but I left him in there to see what would happen. Got up this morning, he is still sitting there all curved up peeping away like he had some kind of invisible egg trapping him. I had put him in the old incubator (the one that the heat had gone out in, but began to mysteriously work for the last two days). Of course, the incubator had gone out again and now he was freezing.....just sitting there in is invisible egg. I figured I didn't have much to lose, so I helped him the rest of the way out. Now he's peeping and struggling and trying to walk around and get out of his penalty box to be with the others. What the heck? Is this a duck thing? I have never seen anything like this with chickens or turkeys.
drunk driver took out a pole @130 this morning. Why does this happen when babies are mid hatch and we're asleep?!?! Not at 6am when I can throw the genny on? 
y'all keep your 
please! 
