How long before day olds actually eat and drink?

[Miss Lydia]

So still plenty of time you just got one in a hurry. lol

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

It is cute

 

[Miss Lydia]

It's adorable

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

Still no activity from the other eggs, we have been thinking hard about what could have gone wrong, we believe there was a malfunction in the incubator last week, the temp spiked to over 104 for an unspecified period of time, perhaps our little fellow is a lone survivor? I will candle tonight and post pictures but I decided it was more harmful to open it last night at 28 days , tonight will be 29. I will post on the rehoming thread, tomorrow morning if no activity arrises.

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

They’re all dead

 

[cheezenkwackers]

Still no activity from the other eggs, we have been thinking hard about what could have gone wrong, we believe there was a malfunction in the incubator last week, the temp spiked to over 104 for an unspecified period of time, perhaps our little fellow is a lone survivor? I will candle tonight and post pictures but I decided it was more harmful to open it last night at 28 days , tonight will be 29. I will post on the rehoming thread, tomorrow morning if no activity arrises.

Temperature swings and high humidity were my downfall when I first started incubating. Most inexpensive incubators work on a timer not a thermostat. So, if the room temperature changes, so does the incubator. If your eggs made it to hatching and then died, I suspect your humidity was too high. The eggshell is porous and a certain amount of water has to evaporate through it. If your humidity is high the air sac stays small and the baby gets too large to move for hatching. Whatever the reason yours didn’t make it, don’t beat yourself up about it. Hatching is hard. It is why they say “don’t count you chickens (or ducks) before they hatch. I’m sorry this happened to you!

 

[Miss Lydia]

So sorry I hope you can find a family for this little one.

 

[Stoney Meadow Maple]

just an update on this little fellow, one of our members offered to take him/her so he/her is off to a great home! so glad little peep will be with ducklings close in age to itself.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Aww that is so sweet.