Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[AnimalQuackers]

Kathy - Not now, obviously, but once the duckling is completely hatched on her own (oh please oh please!), how long does she stay in the incubator before I put her in the brooder?

 

[casportpony]

Kathy - Not now, obviously, but once the duckling is completely hatched on her own (oh please oh please!), how long does she stay in the incubator before I put her in the brooder?

I leave them in the incubator until they are mobile enough to get to food, water and heat, which is usually less than 24 hours.

-Kathy

 

[AnimalQuackers]

OK - we made the littlest hole - and couldn't see a thing but heard peeping, so we gently made the hole bigger (just smaller than a dime) where the air pocket was and her little beak is now sticking out and she is peeping. I don't know what shrinkwrap looks like, but there is a white membrane covering everything but her beak...we can not even see her eyes! The white membrane does look like it is "stuck" more or less to her. We took a video and it's giving me fits trying to upload to this computer, so my husband is upstairs now trying to upload it to his so I can post it. We put her BACK in the incubator, wrapped in a damp washcloth with the hole uncovered facing up...Now what?

Edited to add - It looks REALLY DRY inside the shell!

 

[AnimalQuackers]

THIS IS NOT MY PICTURE - but this does look like the white "wrapping" around her...only ours looks drier...

 

[Lacrystol]

Oh you are so right! The humidity was at 45% in the LOCKDOWN incubator this morning! UGH! I've got it up to a little over 50% - still working on raising it! Why is it this hard?

#4 is still pecking away! We took some photos of the egg last night - they turned out terrible, and wouldn't you know it, our batteries in the camera died so we couldn't upload the photos! I will work on that today.

How long can a little duckling peck at the shell before there are any external crack? It's been 36 hours, and today is day 37 for her!

OK first of all you have to give it a couple of hours before you make adjustments. if after a couple of hours they still are wrong then make your adjustments.

 

[Lacrystol]

Kathy - Not now, obviously, but once the duckling is completely hatched on her own (oh please oh please!), how long does she stay in the incubator before I put her in the brooder?

24 hours..

 

[Lacrystol]

THIS IS NOT MY PICTURE - but this does look like the white "wrapping" around her...only ours looks drier...

Are they still alive???

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Are they still alive???

Our little lady is in her shell, in the incubator, with a hole the size of a dime. She is covered with a tightish-fitting white membrane all over here, except for her beak which is sticking out of the whole in the shell. YES, she is alive but just peeping.

 

[Lacrystol]

OK - we made the littlest hole - and couldn't see a thing but heard peeping, so we gently made the hole bigger (just smaller than a dime) where the air pocket was and her little beak is now sticking out and she is peeping. I don't know what shrinkwrap looks like, but there is a white membrane covering everything but her beak...we can not even see her eyes! The white membrane does look like it is "stuck" more or less to her. We took a video and it's giving me fits trying to upload to this computer, so my husband is upstairs now trying to upload it to his so I can post it. We put her BACK in the incubator, wrapped in a damp washcloth with the hole uncovered facing up...Now what?

Edited to add - It looks REALLY DRY inside the shell!

STOP MAKING HOLES.. STOP PEALING OFF SHELL..

 

[casportpony]

This one is shrink-wrapped and couldn't reach the shell to pip.







This one was shirink wrapped and had it's foot over it's head (this picture was taken after I moistened the membrane with sterile saline.)








After moistening