Help! Air cell’s too small but duckling’s still Alive trying to pip!

[Miss Lydia]

@New duck mommy 2021
@DuckyDonna

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

They need to loose way more liquid yet
What day are they today ?
Sorry my comment after this is for at hatch time if you have issues I didn’t realize you were still far out.
A couple things
One- of that air cell doesn’t dip down and baby pips you may need to make a safety hole earlier as his air amount will be less then normal
He would still need the same time to hatch so instead of 24 hours past external add that extra 12 hours making it 36 minimum
That air cell may still drop down I had that happen to an egg 2 weeks ago. The day before it dropped I said the egg looked days behind the others then all of a sudden it dropped but he couldn’t hit the air cell and bruised his egg all over so needed assistance
The baby could also miss the air cell so just keep a look for bruising outside of the air cell
If you see bruising you will need to make a safety hole in the middle of the bruise Then give him lots of time To absorb just needs to be small nothing big or he could dry out

 

[BelovedBirds]

The meter just arrived! I put it in and the humidity reads 56% and the temperature 38.6 (but on the incubator it’s supposed to be 37.5)

neither will be accurate, likely, you may want to also buy a separate thermometer and calibrate it

 

[BelovedBirds]

Ordered one yesterday and it should get here today! I also candled yesterday and marked the eggs just to get an idea of where they’re at and I noticed one of the egg’s air cell is relatively smaller and they all look weird - wasn’t able to see inside properly with the other two eggs from before because I used the light from the incubator but phones work so much better!
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they look a bit odd- could you candle a couple eggs again, shine the light right through the air cell and get the camera as focused as possible- If you can- I would be interested to see them.
do you see movement in the eggs?

 

[Croissant]

They need to loose way more liquid yet
What day are they today ?
Sorry my comment after this is for at hatch time if you have issues I didn’t realize you were still far out.
A couple things
One- of that air cell doesn’t dip down and baby pips you may need to make a safety hole earlier as his air amount will be less then normal
He would still need the same time to hatch so instead of 24 hours past external add that extra 12 hours making it 36 minimum
That air cell may still drop down I had that happen to an egg 2 weeks ago. The day before it dropped I said the egg looked days behind the others then all of a sudden it dropped but he couldn’t hit the air cell and bruised his egg all over so needed assistance
The baby could also miss the air cell so just keep a look for bruising outside of the air cell
If you see bruising you will need to make a safety hole in the middle of the bruise Then give him lots of time To absorb just needs to be small nothing big or he could dry out

Thank you! I’ll keep that in mind and make sure to do that if there’s an egg really behind in terms of the air cell!

they look a bit odd- could you candle a couple eggs again, shine the light right through the air cell and get the camera as focused as possible- If you can- I would be interested to see them.
do you see movement in the eggs?

I noticed a really foul smell and the egg that had that darker vein had blood around it but it isn’t broken at all? What should I do - do I need to clean out the incubator? I wiped the egg and noticed there’s bits moving in the clear bit when I move the egg, is it dead? Do I remove the egg?

 

[Croissant]

I can’t see any movement and there’s that darker but moving where the light goes through:

I can’t see any movement but there are little veins in the part where the light goes through again for this kne:

These two are alive because I saw movements and veins:

And second:

This one has the same issue as the others where I can’t see anything

It’s day 20, no further development in either of the air cells. The weird thing is they’ve all only taken up part of the egg rather than the whole egg, even though they get rotated every two hours automatically.

 

[Croissant]

I can’t see any movement and there’s that darker but moving where the light goes through:
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I can’t see any movement but there are little veins in the part where the light goes through again for this kne:
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These two are alive because I saw movements and veins:
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And second:
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This one has the same issue as the others where I can’t see anything
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It’s day 20, no further development in either of the air cells. The weird thing is they’ve all only taken up part of the egg rather than the whole egg, even though they get rotated every two hours automatically.

Should I crack open the incubator and bring the humidity down? It’s at 55 now - do I not fill up the reservoir today?

The meter was supposed to measure humidity and temperature and it shows a much higher temperature compared to the incubator, I’m at a loss as to what to do now. It’s showing humidity is at 44 and temperature 40C, but the incubator is showing 37.4Cfor the temperature.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Should I crack open the incubator and bring the humidity down? It’s at 55 now - do I not fill up the reservoir today?

The meter was supposed to measure humidity and temperature and it shows a much higher temperature compared to the incubator, I’m at a loss as to what to do now. It’s showing humidity is at 44 and temperature 40C, but the incubator is showing 37.4Cfor the temperature.

I incubate my eggs at 45 ish for humidity days 1-25 then up to 60/65
Lockdown isn’t till day 25 but if your eggs are behind then lockdown maybe a day or two later
Heat should not be that high but you didn’t have time to calibrate it so it could be reading higher then it should
That one egg looks dead to me and if it has a smell you need to get it out of there before it explodes and causes bacteria issues to the other eggs

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Did you mark an x on one side to make sure the turner is actually turning them ?

 

[Croissant]

I incubate my eggs at 45 ish for humidity days 1-25 then up to 60/65
Lockdown isn’t till day 25 but if your eggs are behind then lockdown maybe a day or two later
Heat should not be that high but you didn’t have time to calibrate it so it could be reading higher then it should
That one egg looks dead to me and if it has a smell you need to get it out of there before it explodes and causes bacteria issues to the other eggs

Ok I’ve removed it - there’s blood where it was, I wiped it but some of it is still there, so I moved the eggs as far away from that area as possible, I didn’t want to risk the other eggs by opening the incubator and trying to clean it out, or should I have done that? Regarding calibrating the meter, should I use the incubator for reference rather than the meter and just use that for humidity in that case? And of the other eggs is there any that I’m also better off removing at this point all of them apart from the two Moving one’s look hopeless and I think they should have filled the whole egg by now but none of them have done that.

Did you mark an x on one side to make sure the turner is actually turning them ?

And yes I did, and it changes positions so the eggs are definitely rotating (worked out the right seconds to rotate properly)

At this point the meter is reading 39C and 55% humidity