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houdiniduck said:
Well I forced myself to do eggtopsies and I think they were shrink wrapped, so you were right... BUT, I candled every egg before going in through the air cells and to my surprise one is still alive. Wasn't moving but I opened the air cell to see what had happened and he moved under the membrane so I pulled it open over his little beak. He looks like he was close to suffocating, but got very wiggly once I opened a breathing hole for him. I wet his membrane with a tiny bit of water, wrapped his egg in a wet paper towel and put a wet paper towel in the bator along with the water tray. I put him back in, now to see what happens. 

The other egg i opened before his looked like it had just died, so maybe i caught this one in time, but I don't think he is ready to hatch. Good thoughts for the precious baby surviving! I will check on him through the night to make sure he doesn't dry out. 

I definately won't be trusting my 39 year old family heirloom incubator to hatch ducks next time. The humidity just won't get high enough I think. My grandpa made it from scratch and we recently refurbished it, but Maybe it is too big to hold a higher humidity. 
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I had to do that with one egg during my first duckling hatch this year. The duckling survived but I was on watch for hours to make sure the membrane stayed nice and wet. Of course, the baby didn't force itself out of its membrane until I took a nap. Lovely.

The second hatch, all my ducklings had this thick amber gooey layer that ended up being caused by the humidity. I hadn't added water during the hatch but the rainy weather made things a bit sticky. The muscovies ended up needing help but they are nice and healthy now, as far as I can tell.

Now we about to have rainy weather again, so I'm hoping it doesn't negatively affect my goose eggs. They still have a couple weeks, though, so I imagine they'll be fine for now.
 
houdiniduck said:
Well I forced myself to do eggtopsies and I think they were shrink wrapped, so you were right... BUT, I candled every egg before going in through the air cells and to my surprise one is still alive. Wasn't moving but I opened the air cell to see what had happened and he moved under the membrane so I pulled it open over his little beak. He looks like he was close to suffocating, but got very wiggly once I opened a breathing hole for him. I wet his membrane with a tiny bit of water, wrapped his egg in a wet paper towel and put a wet paper towel in the bator along with the water tray. I put him back in, now to see what happens. 

The other egg i opened before his looked like it had just died, so maybe i caught this one in time, but I don't think he is ready to hatch. Good thoughts for the precious baby surviving! I will check on him through the night to make sure he doesn't dry out. 

I definately won't be trusting my 39 year old family heirloom incubator to hatch ducks next time. The humidity just won't get high enough I think. My grandpa made it from scratch and we recently refurbished it, but Maybe it is too big to hold a higher humidity. 
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That's awesome I really really hope the little one makes it! :) I shrink wrapped some chicks with a new incubator so it just takes some practice to get the hang of it.If you don't have a hygrometer get one!!! All my babies kept dying because of the lack of water but how was I suppose to know I had no humidity percentages and didn't have enough information in candling at the time since then I got a hygrometer my eggs have hatched every time and I joined BYC and learned a lot from browsing :)
 
poult said:
Ibejaran I love your avatar BTW
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and I love yours poult
 
Miss Lydia said:
and I love yours poult
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Thanks! Your geese are very pretty in your avatar is it an embden & a Toulouse? Wait no Pilgrim?


The boys are doing really well but don't understand why one of their girls spends all day on her nest it's quite amusing they stare at her and hiss and try to sit beside her but she gets really upset and then they run off lol! I should be getting ducklings next week so Assyra can think she hatched them since her chicken eggs keep breaking under her weight and I don't want to see her dissapointment when all the eggs are broke and she has no babies that will break my heart.
 

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