June Hatch A Long

[CluckNDoodle]

Thanks!

I use my iPhone and take a video or Live Photo. Then I use a free app called GIPHY CAM to make a gif so that I can just upload it like a photo here instead of using YouTube. It works great because you can make a 5 second clip on a gif. It does reduce some quality but it’s quick, and it loops!

For candling I use two lights. One of the candlers with a base, like 25.00 on Amazon, and then I use a magic fly flashlight candler WITH a cord. The corded lights are brighter than battery lights. It was 15.00 on Amazon.

The additional light from the bottom PLUS the light from the top makes all the difference.

If you have any light leaking in your setup cover it with electrical tape. Then add a flashlight to the other Side of the egg. If you have any kind of like ace bandage or wrap (vet wrap is great) you can wrap it around the top of the flashlight to focus the light, prevent light leaks, and, make it soft for the egg. Does that make sense? I have a photo somewhere of what I used to use before the magicfly if you want.

Oh! Also... this is how I take the photos while using two hands. It’s a paper cup I cut a holder into. It’s the cheapest and best tripod ever.

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LOL! Ingenious "tripod". I still can't figure out how I take any pictures with my big ol' Nikon while balancing an egg on my hand with a flashlight underneath but I manage. Guess I need some cups. lol

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Thanks!

I use my iPhone and take a video or Live Photo. Then I use a free app called GIPHY CAM to make a gif so that I can just upload it like a photo here instead of using YouTube. It works great because you can make a 5 second clip on a gif. It does reduce some quality but it’s quick, and it loops!

For candling I use two lights. One of the candlers with a base, like 25.00 on Amazon, and then I use a magic fly flashlight candler WITH a cord. The corded lights are brighter than battery lights. It was 15.00 on Amazon.

The additional light from the bottom PLUS the light from the top makes all the difference.

If you have any light leaking in your setup cover it with electrical tape. Then add a flashlight to the other Side of the egg. If you have any kind of like ace bandage or wrap (vet wrap is great) you can wrap it around the top of the flashlight to focus the light, prevent light leaks, and, make it soft for the egg. Does that make sense? I have a photo somewhere of what I used to use before the magicfly if you want.

Oh! Also... this is how I take the photos while using two hands. It’s a paper cup I cut a holder into. It’s the cheapest and best tripod ever.

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Very cool stup - thanks for sharing!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Okay the first pic is from around 3 am when I started to assist. The second before I made this post after gently moving it with a q tip. He didn't bleed until I got around the bottom of the air cell. I didn't intend to get that far down.

Looks like a vigorous little guy! You are way braver than I would have been touching the membrane with all of those vessels still showing! He still looked good to me in the second pic (I think!) so you hopefully just lost a tiny amount of blood and it will be fine! I’m sure CluckNDoodle can advise you better about intervention, but I would bet that ducky has this now and will come out when ready.

 

[starri33]

@Parront , that is a great set up, there are plenty of light leaks in my set up, I had to turn the light off last night and carefully take the roll of tp off the light and retrieve a egg that was so small it slid down the tube..lol. I've heard wonderful things about the magic fly candler

 

[HolyDuckBatman]

Looks like a vigorous little guy! You are way braver than I would have been touching the membrane with all of those vessels still showing! He still looked good to me in the second pic (I think!) so you hopefully just lost a tiny amount of blood and it will be fine! I’m sure CluckNDoodle can advise you better about intervention, but I would bet that ducky has this now and will come out when ready.

Well, that pic was only after I oiled him, I didn't touch the membrane until hours later & they looks largely ' flat ' ( for lack of a better word, sorry, I'm on like an hour of sleep lol ) & almost shrunken, at least most of them, before I gently moved them away, but ys, in hindsight, I think that I panicked & rushed it ! The blood seemed like a moderate amount to me but I'm new to this & straight panicked, so idk....but it stopped very quickly & he is chirping away in there ! I'm just letting him be for now. I cannot tell you guys how much I appreciate all of your help ! Thank you all, so very much

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Today is day 19 for my lone OEGB and my 5 d'Anver eggs, and day 18 for my four Pyncheon eggs. Being that they are all bantams I expect to see some activity within the next couple of days. Fingers crossed I end up with 10 healthy babies

 

[PirateGirl]

hmm... for some reason I don't get alerts on this thread always and I'm 200 posts behind but I have news!

This baby made it out yesterday afternoon, my first ever duckling! When I got home and looked under broody mama it was stuck in a bit of crushed shell and chirping lots and kicking its feet (only it's head was really in the shell). I peeled back just a bit of the crushed part and within moments it kicked free (while my husband reprimanded me and told me not to help it or touch it).

There was a second egg with half a zip (you can see it by the duckling's head, though the egg was rolled a bit in this photo). This morning I woke up to this.

Now we have 2! Either a black and a blue or a blue and splash . I didn't see any external pips on the remaining 3 eggs so I decided to candle (mama was not happy). I decided to ditch this egg. I had one with no movement at day 26, it definitely looks worse. Photos below.

So we have 2 left. 1 had movement and looks pretty good, some veins and maybe even an internal pip (movement was near the air cell). I did not see movement in the second one, it had movement at day 26 and today is day 29. It does not look bad, so fingers crossed it's just "resting". I'm really hoping to see another pip when I get home. I'm getting a bit concerned.

 

[jolenesdad]

Today is day 19 for my lone OEGB and my 5 d'Anver eggs, and day 18 for my four Pyncheon eggs. Being that they are all bantams I expect to see some activity within the next couple of days. Fingers crossed I end up with 10 healthy babies

So exciting!!!! I’ve got nothing for bigger cameras for you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just use books.

But I will say.... do you have a remote switch? It will change your life and is so much fun. Your Nikon probably even has a wireless one available. If you don’t, add it to your Christmas list.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Well, that pic was only after I oiled him, I didn't touch the membrane until hours later & they looks largely ' flat ' ( for lack of a better word, sorry, I'm on like an hour of sleep lol ) & almost shrunken, at least most of them, before I gently moved them away, but ys, in hindsight, I think that I panicked & rushed it ! The blood seemed like a moderate amount to me but I'm new to this & straight panicked, so idk....but it stopped very quickly & he is chirping away in there ! I'm just letting him be for now. I cannot tell you guys how much I appreciate all of your help ! Thank you all, so very much

If you can, now would be a great chance to catch a nap while ducky finishes up absorbing the yolk sac. Even though I've hatched a lot of chicks, I've never had fewer hours of sleep over a hatch than with waterfowl. Lol, I must have gotten up every couple of hours to look in the incubator. It took almost 3 days from the first internal pip until all 3 goslings were out.
I thought I was a patient person until that hatch.

Today is day 19 for my lone OEGB and my 5 d'Anver eggs, and day 18 for my four Pyncheon eggs. Being that they are all bantams I expect to see some activity within the next couple of days. Fingers crossed I end up with 10 healthy babies

Sooo exciting! I can't wait to see pictures of the chicks!

 

[jolenesdad]

hmm... for some reason I don't get alerts on this thread always and I'm 200 posts behind but I have news!

This baby made it out yesterday afternoon, my first ever duckling! When I got home and looked under broody mama it was stuck in a bit of crushed shell and chirping lots and kicking its feet (only it's head was really in the shell). I peeled back just a bit of the crushed part and within moments it kicked free (while my husband reprimanded me and told me not to help it or touch it).

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There was a second egg with half a zip (you can see it by the duckling's head, though the egg was rolled a bit in this photo). This morning I woke up to this.

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Now we have 2! Either a black and a blue or a blue and splash . I didn't see any external pips on the remaining 3 eggs so I decided to candle (mama was not happy). I decided to ditch this egg. I had one with no movement at day 26, it definitely looks worse. Photos below.

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So we have 2 left. 1 had movement and looks pretty good, some veins and maybe even an internal pip (movement was near the air cell). I did not see movement in the second one, it had movement at day 26 and today is day 29. It does not look bad, so fingers crossed it's just "resting". I'm really hoping to see another pip when I get home. I'm getting a bit concerned.

CONGRATS!!!!!!!

I would have tossed the egg, too.