Help with pipping, chirping eggs should I help?

[galen54]

Hi I have 5 duck eggs in my incubator. According to my calendar they should not hatch until this coming Sunday, but I'm worried that I may have recorded the initial date they started to incubate on the wrong week on the calendar. Two hatched yesterday (Sunday 4/26). They are doing fine today, but yesterday after hatching they were both sleeping with their heads on the ground instead of held upright, as if they were too weak to hold them up, and one was having a little problem standing. They are both eating and drinking and are fine today.
one of The other eggs chipped a small hole in the shell and I heard peeping all day yesterday and again today. Thinking they were ready, I put tiny holes in the other two and now they are all chirping, and I hear scraping noises, but none are trying to get out. Should I tape the whole so they don't dry out and leave them alone, or try to get them out of their shells??? As I said, at this point I'm not sure if the due date was yesterday or next Sunday (28 days).
Thanks so much!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

You should make sure your humidity is up so they don't dry out and leave them alone to do their thing.

 

[galen54]

Thank you, I will.

 

[galen54]

Thanks so much they hatched on their own today (tuesday), but I think putting a hole in the shell myself was a bad idea, as the membrane was dried hard around the area they were trying to get out. The last one could not get through that membrane, so I did help him.

Thanks again!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thanks so much they hatched on their own today (tuesday), but I think putting a hole in the shell myself was a bad idea, as the membrane was dried hard around the area they were trying to get out. The last one could not get through that membrane, so I did help him.

Thanks again!

Congrats!! It usually is best to let them do their thing especially until they externally pip themselves. We humans are awful impatient creatures. Glad it all turned out and you got babies!