Help!Day 22 duck pipping?

[Claudine19]

Hey it's me again!
Just being a worried duck lady once again. I've stopped turning them but now the duck seem to be laying in part of the aircell but hasn't pipped yet? Is that normal?

I really don't want to confuse her pushing against the air cell to her having actually pipped since I know she can't breath in there forever if she pipped. Will I hear chipping if she pipped or could she pip and not chip?

 

[citymeetscountry]

Hey it's me again!
Just being a worried duck lady once again. I've stopped turning them but now the duck seem to be laying in part of the aircell but hasn't pipped yet? Is that normal?View attachment 3078994 I really don't want to confuse her pushing against the air cell to her having actually pipped since I know she can't breath in there forever if she pipped. Will I hear chipping if she pipped or could she pip and not chip?

You will like hear peeping. I will say not all of mine peeped (well 1 was more dominant of a peeper), but you should see movement or so.

 

[Claudine19]

I'm updating this thread with some good news! All 9 ducks hatched and are healthy little balls of fluff

The egg in question in this thread internally pipped on Monday morning I realized after looking up some internally pipped videos. I made a little hole in the air sack on Tuesday morning to make sure the little guy would have enough air since the egg was so small and she pipped so early ( day 24). 24 hours later I noticed the little guy seems to struggle and hélas the membrane had shrink. I then took away some shell and spent the next 24 hours putting some ointment on the membrane as the veins were active. Thursday morning I had a little fluffy black duckling peeping in the incubator and the smallest egg of the batch was empty . That day (day 26 almost 27) three ducklings hatched right in front of all the kiddos ( this was an incubating project with my group of middle schoolers) Before leaving that night I took away some shell from a duck who had externally pipped 48 hours ago at the wrong end and next morning 4 ducklings had hatch ( including the one that pipped wrong) and then I also assisted another one who pipped at the wrong end. It was quite a stressfull week but I'm happy to say that they all made it and I assisted successfully 3 of them.

I am pretty surprise that they all hatched since I had a electricity black out of 24 hours on day 17. I did stay in my car with the heat blasting but I truly though they were all gone. I guess my incubator did run a little higher then expected since they were all out on day 26 or 27. Still this whole hatch has been quite the adventure and I can say for a fact I will have the hardest time giving some of these little guys away to new homes.

 

[SilverBirds]

Congrats on the hatch!