Latest call hatch,hatched last week. 11 eggs total in the incubator. 3 were quitters on the last candling before lock down leaving 8. Day 26, lots of wiggling. Kept my hands to myself and left the incubator alone. Day 28, no external pips, starting to get nervous! Candled, to check status of these boogers. 5 with beaks in aircells. Put them back in, increase humidity. Day 30, still no external pips....... Grrrrr. Swore I wasnt going to interfere with batch, but cant let em be. Candled again and removed egg shell around air cell. Put back into incubator. Candled other eggs and decided to wait longer. Next day 6 babies out of shells. One dead in incubator, other 5 happy and healthy. Candled remaining 3 and opened air cells once again and put them back in. Over next 2 days helping to moisten and eventually they hatched. All three hatched, but 2 passed away yesterday and today. Very weak and didnt ever eat. Eggs seemed dry again internally, so something seems amiss with my incubator. I will have to purchase something to compare and see how accurate it is. I've seen people posting about the brinsea spot check, so maybe we'll give that a try. This will be my last hatch for a few months. All of the call ducks are outside and enjoying the freedom of the entire pen. We will construct breeding pens hopefully at some point! Here are some pics of the babies. We got a couple of new colors compared to the last hatch. We are hoping one is a pastel. Our snowy and white threw another black bibbed fella. I'm not going to breed those two together anymore! I'm keeping my eye out for mates for all of my unmatched ducks. Much easier to just breed them to their color. I'm definitely not a geneticist! Also have room for only so many ducks! Uploading pics right now! Enjoy and love feedback on them!
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