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I have a duck and a goose egg in the incubator.. Duck is almost 4 days late and havnt even pipped the aircell, Goose is about 3 days late and not aircell either. Now before you start lecturing me about opening the bator I have quails in there to and stuck the candlier against the goose/duck egg for a quick life check when I reached in to grab the quail chicks after they dried off, Their not very active anymore, the duck barely moves and the goose you cant even tell its alive unless you stare at it for about a min to see a quick twitch here and there. Are they ever gonna hatch or am I gonna lose them?? anyway to save them?
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What have you been running your temps at? Lower temps may lead to a delay in hatching by a couple of days.
 
Well, it's a bad idea to have two different types of birds in there....waterfowl need quite a bit higher humidity than most. If you didn't raise the humidity the last three days of incubation, then no, they won't hatch.
 
Red&Yellow :

Well, it's a bad idea to have two different types of birds in there....waterfowl need quite a bit higher humidity than most. If you didn't raise the humidity the last three days of incubation, then no, they won't hatch.

Humidity is 72%​
 
I've read that duck and geese temps should be:
99.32 - 99.68 F

Did you let the eggs rest in the first 25 days ....by misting and opening incubator for them to cool down, similar to hwo a mother goose does...............

I'd ait a little longer.... Hopefully you'll have somthing.
 
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Duck is 32 Days and goose is 33 today

WOW!!! Have you candled them to see if there is any activity?

Yes, I candled them the first day of lockdown and they were VERY active, then today I candled and the duck moves just a lil, and the goose you cant even tell he's alive unless you watch for a minute and you see him twitch here and there
 

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