New to hatching - just looking for advice/reassurance!

[WVduckchick]

Looking good, they can breathe fine thru that small crack. Now its the waiting..... And waiting.....

 

[Hollyelliott]

Oh, the waiting it a killer! It seems it a case of nothing, nothing, nothing, major wobble, peeping, then nothing, nothing, nothing! What a fascinating thing incubating is! Just blows my mind!

 

[Hollyelliott]

WOW!!!! We have one hatched!!! We have a ducking!!!!
Egg B had lots of little cracks, and I could see the little pieces being pushed a lot yesterday and lots of peeping, but it'd still not made a hole.
Egg A had a couple of very small cracks, but that one had not done much peeping/wobbling at all yesterday, and I was getting a little worried that it didn't seem that active. I got up at 6am to check the incubator, and nothing. I went back to bed, and my partner checked at 7.30am and all looked the same. Then he came in at 8.15am and said 'we've got a ducking'!!! I thought he was joking, but no, Egg A is out, causing chaos in the incubator. No hole first, it looks like he's conserved all his energy then just zipped right out from 2 little cracks, no messing!!! He's 2-day's early (this is day 26) but looks so healthy! He is active, peeping, and really just looks perfect!!!!
I'm so happy and amazed and relieved!!! Just waiting for egg B to hopefully make it out soon - I was sure with the amount of action and cracks he's be the first out!!
Liz

 

[Miss Lydia]

Congrats!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Congrats!!

Has the condensation been heavy on the window like that since lockdown or just since this one hatched?

 

[Hollyelliott]

Just since the first one hatched. There was no condensation (or very, very little) until this guy came out. Is that OK?

 

[Miss Lydia]

That lil one should motivate the others into hatching soon not sure about condensation since I don't use incubators.

 

[Hollyelliott]

Thanks for you replies. Yes, the hatched ducking is all over the place! He's knocked the lid of the water trough (thankfully can't get in and water not that high), knocked the therm/humidity reader over (thankfully I can still read it!) temp at 37 degrees, humidity 88% and dropping slowly as newly hatched is drying out/fluffing up. He's climbing over the unhatched egg and pecking at its shell/the hole, too. He's preening, pecking at the condensation drops - everything! The unhatched one is very vocal and its beak keeps popping out (the hole is about 1cm now) then you can tell its resting again. When the hatched one gets active, the unhatched one becomes more active, too. Condensation is almost gone on the clear window now, bar a couple of sections.

 

[casportpony]

Congrats!

 

[Hollyelliott]

11-hours later, and the second one has (finally) hatched! Helped I'm sure by the first one trampling all over the egg and pecking at the shell/hole! Looking healthy, gorgeous and exhausted! What a relief - 2/2 here safely! And I'm completely in love already!