Internal pip 2 days ago. No external yet. Intervene?

[Miss Lydia]

 

[tumnus]

Hey all. Interesting reads about the thermometers. Hijack away!

As for the ducklings, it's been a mixed bag. We've had 2 successfully hatch. One has pipped and is working on it. Will probably be out in a couple hours. The fourth was dead in shell this morning when I woke up.

All in all it was kind of a poor hatch. When I candled at day 7, I had 10 fertile eggs. 7 of them quit at different times. I think I need to calibrate my thermometers so I can have precise temperature readings if and when I incubate again. I live in the city right now. This is just practice for when I buy land in the country.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well 4 isn't so bad for first time, It takes a while to get it down pat and still can lose some. Congrats on the 4

Will you be keeping these lil ones?

Very sorry for your losses.

 

[CayugaJana]

I worked as a state health inspector in the past. Having accurate thermometers was very important in testing food temperatures. We always calibrated our thermometers with the ice/32F method. We regularly took temperatures from 10F - 200F. In my experience the 32F method makes sense (because of previously stated physics) however I don’t know all of the thermometers used in hatching. For a novice, calibrating at 32F would be the easiest, however it may be worth looking into calibrating at 100 if you know what you are doing and seem to have better hatches.....

 

[tumnus]

Well 4 isn't so bad for first time, It takes a while to get it down pat and still can lose some. Congrats on the 4

Will you be keeping these lil ones?

Very sorry for your losses.

We've only got 3 at this point. But we're really excited to be welcoming these ducklings to the fam. Whether we end up keeping all of them is kinda determined by their gender makeup. If we end up with a female and two drakes, that's kind of a problem. So we'll see who gets to stay!

 

[casportpony]

We've only got 3 at this point. But we're really excited to be welcoming these ducklings to the fam. Whether we end up keeping all of them is kinda determined by their gender makeup. If we end up with a female and two drakes, that's kind of a problem. So we'll see who gets to stay!

Congrats on the three! Pictures soon I hope?

 

[CayugaJana]

Hey all. Interesting reads about the thermometers. Hijack away!

As for the ducklings, it's been a mixed bag. We've had 2 successfully hatch. One has pipped and is working on it. Will probably be out in a couple hours. The fourth was dead in shell this morning when I woke up.

All in all it was kind of a poor hatch. When I candled at day 7, I had 10 fertile eggs. 7 of them quit at different times. I think I need to calibrate my thermometers so I can have precise temperature readings if and when I incubate again. I live in the city right now. This is just practice for when I buy land in the country.

Congratulations! Ducklings are always such fun. Just think about it, in the wild ducks aren’t in a predator free environment with perfect weather so their hatch rates aren’t always high either.

 

[tumnus]

Congrats on the three! Pictures soon I hope?

This is the second baby to hatch. I'll take more photos when all three are out.

 

[CayugaJana]

Congrats on the three! Pictures soon I hope?

 

[CayugaJana]

This is the second baby to hatch. I'll take more photos when all three are out.

Welcome to the world cutie patootie!