Help! duck egg day 29, no pipping - pic included... getting anxious

[Miss Lydia]

Mine is like this (not pretty, but functional), except the whole front half is wire. Yes that's chicken wire you see from before the coons tore it out and killed my chickens. The doors now have 2x4 welded wire, screwed down with metal plumbers pipe hanger tape and the whole thing is covered in 1/2" welded wire. I've also replaced the poly wire with 14 gauge steel wire.
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There are hundreds of pretty designs in the coop section.

Is yours a tractor?

 

[Ducknewb_22]

Mine is like this (not pretty, but functional), except the whole front half is wire. Yes that's chicken wire you see from before the coons tore it out and killed my chickens. The doors now have 2x4 welded wire, screwed down with metal plumbers pipe hanger tape and the whole thing is covered in 1/2" welded wire. I've also replaced the poly wire with 14 gauge steel wire.
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There are hundreds of pretty designs in the coop section.

That’s pretty nice and a WHOLE lot of chickens in there

 

[Kiki]

Ok I was definitely going to run it before trying it on fertilized eggs. Any opinions o. The hovabator 1602n?

Zero.
I know nothing about it.
You can do a search here
Search
and find others that use it and see what they have to say about it.

 

[Ducknewb_22]

Read up on humidity levels before you start too.
Temp will need to stay the same throughout.

Most important thing IMO is to have calibrated instruments.

Put some fake eggs in the bator and run them for two days before you get real eggs.
So you can see how the bator holds temps and humidity.
Get to know the bator first.
Some spots may be cooler than others. (Why you need multiple thermometers)
Think about rotating eggs around the bator daily.

I can say my ignorance this last time did not do me any favors that poor duck egg paid the price. Everything I read said up the humidity the last 3 days NOT up it once it externally pips. Now if mine had been on schedule that would have been fine but my little egg was 10 days late.

 

[Ducknewb_22]

I’ll message you.

Yeah!! So excited!! I’m

 

[Ducknewb_22]

Coop section:
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Love the playhouse coops

 

[Kiki]

I am guessing that temperature was more of a problem for you.
It really needs to be on point and steady so the ducks can grow correctly.
When you start getting that far passed the due date you are dropping the chances if it actually hatching tremendously.
They are made to grow in a certain number of days for a reason.


Humidity needs to be close to on point too.
Too high throughout and you will drown the ducks.

 

[Kiki]

What ever you decide make sure there is enough room for how ever many ducks you want to get.

 

[Ducknewb_22]

What ever you decide make sure there is enough room for how ever many ducks you want to get.

Going to show restraint and start out small

 

[Kiki]

Going to show restraint and start out small

Great idea.
You can ALWAYS get more eggs.