OK Mallards can take up to 29 days so we need to add another day for them. Now let me check on magpies.
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95% for HUMIDITY!!!! get that DOWN. OMG, no wonder they are not out yet. GET THAT DOWN...temperature is set to 37.5c and the humidity is at 94-95% humidity now, but I think it fluctuated..
it's a weird Japanese make and instructions are really odd, so I just set the levels as best I could.
most of the ducks are very indian runer-looking, but they obviously needed a little longer.
I'm not touching them anymore, I think they'll hatch tomorrow sometime, hopefully...
temperature is set to 37.5c and the humidity is at 94-95% humidity now, but I think it fluctuated..
it's a weird Japanese make and instructions are really odd, so I just set the levels as best I could.
most of the ducks are very indian runer-looking, but they obviously needed a little longer.
I'm not touching them anymore, I think they'll hatch tomorrow sometime, hopefully...
hmmm maybe it wasn't that high...I'm not at home now, I will check when I get back.
(to be honest, I'm not good at remembering numbers)
I'm not stupid, even though just then I sounded it...I'm awesome with animals and I've successfully raised my chickens from an incubator.
I'll let you know what my incubator says, I definitely set it to what I read from various duck breeding websites was best for them.
I looked this morning and humidity was on 50% so it didn't set to my new setting for ducklings...it must be on 50% for chicks by default and I did something wrong with the settings.
I was pipette'ing warm water over the eggs every day for the last 2 weeks, but I guess it wasn't enough.
Ducklings seem fine today, wriggling about. Two have yellow bills, one has a grey one which has actually pierced the membrane completely and is opening and closing in between wriggles.
I keep looking every half an hour or so, I've been going a bit crazy, back and forth.
I still pipette the shell and membrane edge with warm water so they don't become vacuum-packed.
The veins have almost completely shriveled to a hairline's width now. I'll post photos in the next couple hours.
Thanks for all your help guys, my friends think I'm bonkers. I keep dreaming that they're all out and healthy and chirping!
So excited for you, won't be long now. I had to help out 1 duckling thank goodness that's the only one, she was actually under one of my older ducks and she struggled and struggled to get out so I ended up spending most of Fri sat and sun working on her shell, under her mama [I'd bring out the egg work a bit then put it back], finally on Monday morn I had gotten enough off she was able to kick her way out, but I used a spray bottle and would spray the membrane well one of the times I was spraying that lil thing opened it bill and took a drink, well that to me was amazing. Sure look forward to seeing yours when they hatch. They are so special.I sort've run a few warm droplets around the outside of the membrane, avoiding the ducklings' beaks and then after a couple seconds of the water soaking in, I draw out any excess with the pipette.
I heard a squeak just a minute ago, and the beak from another (bueish grey one - I call him Sylvester) opens and closes, moving his tongue about like he's tasty the air, he looks the most ready and moves around a lot.