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Glad JWW got the help he or she needed tonight.....

JWW— just know that ducklings are pokey little creatures when it comes to hatching.... they just love to freak out their humans by taking lots of naps and getting all still and quiet— right in the middle of hatching.... it’s not unheard of for it to take a couple days to get their butt in gear and finish zipping on out of their egg.... they’ve got a lot of yolk to absorb, I guess....
But in the meantime their human is :barnie and :fl — not to mention scared to death that something is wrong.... Fortunately, the baby duckies almost always know what they’re doing,(even if the humans don’t) and they hatch just fine and right on time....

Good luck with the rest of your hatch... and safe travels.
 
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April’s Zoo said:
@Pyxis
@WVduckchick
@Miss Lydia
@CayugaJana

I’ve seen helpful hatching posts from these members before.... maybe one of them can advise now?
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Okay, I just skimmed all the pages here, but at least one of these eggs appears to have pipped at the wrong end. Is that the egg that has been 32 hours since any action, or 12 hours? Or were they both pipped at the wrong end?

If it's the 32 hour one, that's normal, it pipped on the wrong end so it's going to take longer to hatch, since it externally pipped when it would have internally pipped, meaning it can be up to 48 hours or maybe more before it's ready to zip and hatch. So that one you can leave alone, as long as the pip isn't occluded.

Do not be taking shell and membrane off at that end of the egg, there's no air cell there, so if the duckling isn't ready to hatch, you're going to tear right into the inner membrane and cause it to bleed. Good news is, most wrong end pippers hatch on their own, they don't need our help, just more time between external pip and zip than correctly positioned hatchlings take.

If it was the wrong end pipper that had been 12 hours, all I said above still applies, but if the other egg was positioned normally and has taken 32 hours now since progress was made, then it possibly needs help, in which case you can follow this assisted hatching guide to help it out:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

Have either of the eggs made any progress since this morning?
 

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