Help! first time hatching!

[silkiecuddles]

2 more ducks are working on hatching. They're slowly zipping. Or is it supposed to be unzipping?

 

[WVduckchick]

Haha zipping. That's great!

 

[silkiecuddles]

#10 is hatched. Still in bator—but, his head is still in the shell. It go out, then somehow turned around and now has its head in shell and can't back up.
#11 has made its pip hole bigger, but hasn't tried zipping yet.
#12 hasn't even pipped to my knowledge
Silkie egg #1 pipped last night, and it's hole is slightly larger now, but hasn't tried coming out. I can't see it very well, so it may be dead. *sniff sniff*
LF egg #4 hasn't pipped to my knowledge, neither has #5. Crossing my fingers they're still alive.

 

[WVduckchick]

Wow this is going great! I'm happy for you! I'm hoping all the others make it out.

 

[silkiecuddles]

Yeah, I hope the others hatch too! One of the LF eggs is an EE, and I really want the silkie egg to hatch because i need more silkies!

 

[silkiecuddles]

I can see into the silkie egg. It isn't moving that j could tell. Is it dead? The ducks really crawled over that egg in particular, so would that be the cause? I'll give it another day before removing it and examining it.

 

[Lacrystol]

Brother sent me some videos. I'm on my way home now. There are about 6 ducklings in bator, he can't really tell. It's all yellow and bills, haha. The poor chick looked traumatized amidst all the ducks.

And they just keep popping out lol

 

[Lacrystol]

Just got home. Put the 6 ducks and one chick in brooder with the others.
There are 3 duck eggs left, and 3 chicken eggs. One chicken egg I don't know if it has even pipped yet. The silkie chicken egg has been pipped since yesterday. They really walked on it today. Hope it's fine.
I know one of the duck eggs is alive. It was rocking it's egg a bit. The others are pipped but they haven't tried zipping yet. Crossing my fingers.

Pipped or peeped???

 

[Lacrystol]

Bator is full of duck fluff. It's thin, like hair, but really short. The channels are full of it, so I can't tell the water level. Humidity is at 60%, so I guess it's fine. Has anyone else experienced this duck fluff stuff before?

Yep i warned you about being messy they have ready begun. Lol

 

[Lacrystol]

Ok they either pipped or peeped. Pipped happens internally. And peeped happens externally. It's confusing when when I see they have pipped because I don't know if you mean internally pipped or externally peeping.