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[MuscovyLover]

While we're on the topic, what is the longest you should leave an internal pip for with no exteranl pip before intervention?
Also, three of my girls are on eggs and all started sitting at the same time. Two have started shadowing but the thirds still have tiny air sacs and appear less developed than the other twos eggs. Third hen is a first timer and has been very inconsistent. Always off the nest for several hours at a time etc throughout the whole incubation.
Because it's thier first hatch I will take alot of the eggs and incubate, leaving each hen to hatch and raise a manageable 3 each. Is there anything I can do to get the timing synchronized for hatch? So the third hens eggs can be incubated with the first twos?

 

[livininbrazil]

maybe, ive had some sit for 3 days with a pip

Wow! 3 days! Now that´s a long time! I listened to 10 of the eggs today, only one was quiet. I don´t bother to candle the duck eggs, as they get too upset if I mess around while they´re about. I just quickly have a little listen when I know they´re due, and the hen is off the nest. The other duck didn´t oblige by getting off the nest, but I heard her 4 eggs tapping yesterday. So, maybe 13 out of 14 to hatch...shd be tomorrow.... will know soon.

They´re so unbelievably cute, I love it when they stamp their little feet in the stream to raise any bugs etc in the mud. Amazing little things.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: What do you candle with?

-Kathy

 

[livininbrazil]

While we're on the topic, what is the longest you should leave an internal pip for with no exteranl pip before intervention?
Also, three of my girls are on eggs and all started sitting at the same time. Two have started shadowing but the thirds still have tiny air sacs and appear less developed than the other twos eggs. Third hen is a first timer and has been very inconsistent. Always off the nest for several hours at a time etc throughout the whole incubation.
Because it's thier first hatch I will take alot of the eggs and incubate, leaving each hen to hatch and raise a manageable 3 each. Is there anything I can do to get the timing synchronized for hatch? So the third hens eggs can be incubated with the first twos?

Are the third hen´s eggs still alive and growing? It´s probably just because she´s not sitting so well that they´re a little late in developing. You can´t hurry them. Is it because of lockdown that you want to have them at the same stage? Why not leave them with the hens? They´re good moms. It´s less risky.
But if you really want to take some, you could take all the eggs of the first two, and give each of them some of the third´s... That way you´ll get them at the same stage of development.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Don't worry too much about it since there's not much you can do for them and often they aren't able to absorb their yolks in that position.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

From: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching
"In the picture below you will see an inner pip with the beak in it… Dampen first for better viewing of membranes. Clear a tiny bit of membrane from the nostrils, but DO NOT to hit any veins."


-Kathy

 

[TherryChicken]

Wow!  3 days!  Now that´s a long time!  I listened to 10 of the eggs today, only one was quiet.  I don´t bother to candle the duck eggs, as they get too upset if I mess around while they´re about.  I just quickly have a little listen when I know they´re due, and the hen is off the nest.  The other duck didn´t oblige by getting off the nest, but I heard her 4 eggs tapping yesterday.   So, maybe 13 out of 14 to hatch...shd be tomorrow....  will know soon.     They´re so unbelievably cute, I love it when they stamp their little feet in the stream to raise any bugs etc in the mud.  Amazing little things.

cant wait

 

[TherryChicken]

What do you candle with?

-Kathy

LED light

 

[TherryChicken]

From: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching "In the picture below you will see an inner pip with the beak in it… Dampen first for better viewing of membranes. Clear a tiny bit of membrane from the nostrils, but DO NOT to hit any veins." -Kathy

that is always so hard to do. I havent assisted any of the others, they look to be doing good..

 

[TherryChicken]

Fixing to post pix of the duckling