My Cayugas are hatching.

[Miss Lydia]

Today is actually the due date so we're not giving up hope but there's no longer movement in any of the eggs and some shells have developed dark spots.

did you get to talk with Lacrystol? I know she has been help another member hatch her Muscovy ducklings and we have all been watching.

 

[RoboDuck]

We talked some last night but not in depth since today was the actual due date. We don't know what happened. We had good movement up until yesterday. I don't know if we had the wrong humidity or temp or what for the final days after lock down.

The second duck that hatched was off to a slow start but he's doing better. Poinduxter is doing very well. Earlier I was lying in bed watching TV and reading the forum. He was on my chest hanging out. My wife walked toward me and he ran up under my chin for protection. Funny thing is, he's smaller than the second one that hatched out but he's doing way better.

 

[Miss Lydia]

We talked some last night but not in depth since today was the actual due date. We don't know what happened. We had good movement up until yesterday. I don't know if we had the wrong humidity or temp or what for the final days after lock down.

The second duck that hatched was off to a slow start but he's doing better. Poinduxter is doing very well. Earlier I was lying in bed watching TV and reading the forum. He was on my chest hanging out. My wife walked toward me and he ran up under my chin for protection. Funny thing is, he's smaller than the second one that hatched out but he's doing way better.

So hard to know following these Scovy ducklings hatching and dieing in their shells too, seems it's either drowning in their own fluid from humidity being too high or shrink wrapping because of too low humidity. Before you decide it's too late candle first to see if any of them pipped internally, and then you may want to open up an egg so you can possibly know which it was too much humidity or too little. So happy for you that you got 2 ducklings though, and so much better for the ducklings to have each other. .

 

[subhanalah]

I've been reading this thread, and I can't remember what page it was on but it said that often times its not the final days that cause problems. It is some other issue Earlier in the incubation (temperatures fluctuating too much or temps too high at some point) that causes them to become weakened and when the due date comes they just aren't strong enough to make it out. I believe this is part of the problem with the scovies as well. It makes sense to me.
What kind of incubator are you using?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ellent-info-here-everyone-should-read-this/80

 

[RoboDuck]

HovaBator 1602 with turner.

 

[subhanalah]

Is it okay if in ask you a bunch of questions you've probably already talked to lacrystol about? Lol. Its good information for the forum

 

[GAMarans]

I think we may have had a few things combined to work against us. Something happened during shipping that caused two eggs to be cracked even though they were well packed in foam ... there was a temp spike about midway through ... and in my efforts to try to ensure that his duck eggs hatched, I went with a higher humidity than I have in the past (based on reading and research). At this point I am guessing that the earlier events impacted them so that even those that survived too much moisture were too weak to pip. I'm not going to touch anything until Mon/Tues ... just in case. (Sure hope whichever one is stinking doesn't explode.)

 

[GAMarans]

subhanalah ... ask away

We're here to learn and share and all that.

 

[subhanalah]

You can take them out to candle and smell to remove the stinky one.

 

[subhanalah]

Just the usual, what temperature did you have it set at, your humidity measures you took. I'm sorry it worked put the way it did? At least two hatched so they can keep each other company.