Have a real dark egg anyone have suggestions?

[WVduckchick]

I don't want to have a need, but I want to be prepared if I do. Every time I see someone has lost electricity while incubating I cringe and wonder what I would do. So I finally made a game plan, (I hope I don't need) but at least I feel like I have a plan, even if I don't know if it would work...lol  Three in a pack and they are supposed to last 8 hours...lol Better than nothing...lol

We went out and bought a generator! Lol My hubby was away on business and I was miserable! That won't happen again lol

 

[WVduckchick]

goose goose goose goose ancona ancona ancona ancona ancona ancona ancona ancona ancona A couple are pictured more than once because the in the ancona egg's there was movement. Wish you could catch that on a still shot. Or that the camera would actually video without the flash but, it wouldn't. Needed some kind of night vision camera maybe. That would be cool.

I'm on my phone so I can't tell much about the pics, but isn't it amazing how much more active duck embryos are?

 

[mswendeu]

I'm no expert so I look to you all for clarification. Do you think the top left egg is pipping?

 

[themenagerie]

Looks like it to me! It's SO exciting, isn't it?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm no expert so I look to you all for clarification. Do you think the top left egg is pipping?

Looks it to me too!!! Yay!!!

 

[mswendeu]

Looks like it to me! It's SO exciting, isn't it?

I am extremely excited can't wait for the rest to pip zip and eggscape.

 

[mswendeu]

As of this morning out of the 6 original eggs in the bator as of lockdown 3 have fully hatched. I removed them from the bator after a couple hours each because I have that worry wort thing over the fan hurting them. I removed all the hatched shells. Turned an egg that pipped yesterday morning over and examined it. Placed it back inside and added my two Spangled Sussex that have to be in lock down starting today. Added some water to keep humidity back up. And went outside to see what was happening in my outdoor pen. I moved my oldest chicks outside yesterday to their final home and run. Found a neighbor's Rooster or a feral Rooster perched on top of the run. After feeding the chicks and ducks outside I come back inside To find yesterday's pipped egg trying to zip.

I hope that the rest hatch today but two of the eggs don't even have external pip. So I don't know we shall see.

@AmyLynn2374 @WVduckchick
I just want to say thank you, you both have been really helpful.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

As of this morning out of the 6 original eggs in the bator as of lockdown 3 have fully hatched. I removed them from the bator after a couple hours each because I have that worry wort thing over the fan hurting them. I removed all the hatched shells. Turned an egg that pipped yesterday morning over and examined it. Placed it back inside and added my two Spangled Sussex that have to be in lock down starting today. Added some water to keep humidity back up. And went outside to see what was happening in my outdoor pen. I moved my oldest chicks outside yesterday to their final home and run. Found a neighbor's Rooster or a feral Rooster perched on top of the run. After feeding the chicks and ducks outside I come back inside To find yesterday's pipped egg trying to zip.

I hope that the rest hatch today but two of the eggs don't even have external pip. So I don't know we shall see.

@AmyLynn2374 @WVduckchick
I just want to say thank you, you both have been really helpful.

Yay!!!

Glad we could help!!!

for the rest.

 

[mswendeu]

They do what they do in their own due time right? Thank goodness for patience... I was going to tear my hair out. lol

And I also really want to thank if not for that incubator post I might not have learned as much as I did. @Silkie-Feet

 

[AmyLynn2374]

They do what they do in their own due time right? Thank goodness for patience... I was going to tear my hair out. lol

And I also really want to thank if not for that incubator post I might not have learned as much as I did. @Silkie-Feet

These forums are great..but I think they also cause us unnessary fear as well. We hear or see where someone's chick died after pipping and then when ours has been sitting there half the day, we think about that person's situation and then start freaking out wondering if we should intervene because we don't want that to happen to our chick.... then we assist when we probably didn't need to... I think most of the assists are probably unnecessary, but we are so scared to take our chances and trust nature that we do it anyway. Just like opening the bator. Some new people are so afriad to open the bator at lockdown to even add water because they've been warned if you open it surely you will cause damage to the unhatched chicks. I personally think that risk is blown way out of proportion if you have adequate humidity to begin with and your bator can recoup quickly. I plan to start researching that topic and seeing what I can find on fact based studies and not theory.