My Easy Indie Adventure

[Knighstar679]

Woohoo!! I can't wait to see pics of these guys!!

I'm hoping you can give me pointers for when mine are due! Haha

I will let you know anything I can. Just added water and upped the humidity.

 

[WVduckchick]

Day 23- Tonight we go into lockdown. I have some good movement in 3 of the 4 eggs I know are still kicking. Egg one I think died over the weekend. The last egg is hard to tell because it’s got lots of speckled dark grey spots. But it moves all the same.

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With luck there will be little black ducklings by the weekend.

Those look a lot like a set of Call eggs I had under a broody chicken for a few days, then decided to swap out for chicken eggs. Put the call eggs in the incubator, but I’m not sure how many days the hen sat on them. I was planning to up humidity tomorrow.

Best of luck!!

 

[Knighstar679]

Those look a lot like a set of Call eggs I had under a broody chicken for a few days, then decided to swap out for chicken eggs. Put the call eggs in the incubator, but I’m not sure how many days the hen sat on them. I was planning to up humidity tomorrow.

Best of luck!!

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[RainbowRabbits]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I think she just means that her call eggs look similar to the stage of development as yours and that she’s started lockdown because of it.

I hope you’re planning on posting pics WVduckchick!

 

[Knighstar679]

The waiting has begun. Lockdown is likely the most nerve wrecking part of this. I saw egg two rock a bit tonight. I am seeing bits of shadows on the edges of the air cell it’s only a matter of time before the little ones manage to pip.

 

[RainbowRabbits]

Woot! Keep us posted!

What do you up your humidity to?

 

[Knighstar679]

Woot! Keep us posted!

What do you up your humidity to?

It’s dancing between 54-65% in the Hatcher. Two eggs have started the drawdown, with a third I think heading that way.

So hard to be patient. But 4 of the eggs in the Hatcher are showing movement along the air cell. Looks like they are working themselves into position still. I can’t ever tell what part I am looking at unless it’s a bill in the air cell. But no tapping or peeps yet.

 

[Knighstar679]

I had my first internal pip. Egglet number three was pecking at the shell today when I got home from work. I have 3 drawdowns on the 4 eggs that look really nice.

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[Knighstar679]

Now starts the nail biting waiting. They are still pecking away but now pips yet. Gah!