Houston, we have internal pipping! Homestretch questions for 1st timer

[kwack]

Hooray! All six have pipped internally. So, what, it's one or two days to pip the shell?

They were set 2:30 PM March 5. So that puts us at day 25. The bator was running 101-102 for the first 2 days until we finally got it at a steady 100. Will the increase temp have sped them up?

I realized that the humidity was low after I finally buying a hygrometer. Since then I've been keeping it around 60%.

Tomorrow:
last spray
remove auto turner
raise humidity to 75%

Anything else?

 

[Wifezilla]

Are these ducks or geese?

You may have to go higher on that humidity. I had to bump mine to 90% during hatching because the membrane started to "shrink wrap" around my duckling. I ended up helping him a bit, but he is fine now at 4 weeks.

Metzer farms runs their incubators for ducks at 86% during development and 94% at hatch. Not easy for me to do in Colorado

 

[Katy]

I'd take them out of the turner if they're already internally pipped.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Goooo lil chickies!

Good luck with your first hatch! I just set my first hatch yesterday so I'm a little jealous of everyone pipping and hatching right now....sniff...but I'll just live vicariously of you all and wait my turn.

 

[kwack]

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3 Pekins, 1 Cayuga, and 2 Welsh Harlequin eggs. I will remove the auto turner and bump the humidity. How could you tell the membrane was shrink wrapping?

Thanks all,
kwack

 

[Wifezilla]

It was turning white and it was constricting around the duckling.

 

[kwack]

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Okay, I get the shrink wrap part but how could you tell that through the shell?

Sorry if that's a dumb question.

Thanks

 

[Wifezilla]

The shell was partially open. I could see inside. It happened after the pip and partial zip

 

[kwack]

Right. I got it. Thanks.

Wifezilla - did you intervene with the hatch at that point?

 

[Wifezilla]

I did. I peeled some of the shell and membrane away from JJ's bill. I did see a little blood spotting and stopped, but it was just enough to help him breathe better and once the humidity was up, he worked himself out the rest of the way.