Quote: it'll do great mom!! just be patient...some times 3 days to hatch after internal pip for a duck
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Quote: it'll do great mom!! just be patient...some times 3 days to hatch after internal pip for a duck
Give her a mirror so she thinks she has company also a feather duster or a stuffed animal in the brooder gives them something to snuggle up to.
I had silkies not pip untilled day 21 and hatched on day 22 hope you see some pips soon[COLOR=008080]Oh Man,[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008080]It is hatch day and I am uptight..................[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008080]Why is it so easy to give encouragement to someone else[/COLOR]
and cannot [COLOR=008080]give[/COLOR] the advise to myself.................
Looking in the bator about every 30 minutes hoping to see a Silkie pip
but none so far.
I am so done with cheap hygrometers..going to buy some good equipment.
Thermometers still showing a 7 degree difference and the hygrometers
reading 25,45,65................All were calibrated just before lock down.
The chicks so far are lovely.............no deformatives...........
Good luck to everyone hatching...and........ to those recent hatches..........
I've been having to fool with the temps on the incubators too!Oh and I have two more due that are internally pipped. 1 more Marans mix and another of my CCL x GLW crosses - wonder if the 5th one will also be a girl??? The one that just hatched assisted was the first chick I've ever had go past day 21. Today is day 21 for these two eggs as well. I bet our sudden cold front has something to do with it. Usually I have all my pips on the 20th day and they are all hatched by the afternoon of the 21st.
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Oh and I have two more due that are internally pipped. 1 more Marans mix and another of my CCL x GLW crosses - wonder if the 5th one will also be a girl??? The one that just hatched assisted was the first chick I've ever had go past day 21. Today is day 21 for these two eggs as well. I bet our sudden cold front has something to do with it. Usually I have all my pips on the 20th day and they are all hatched by the afternoon of the 21st.
oh it's all the girls fault....lol!!!I just threw 12 Ameraucana eggs and 1 phoenix egg into my homemade water heater thermostat incubator. The Ameraucanas came in the mail yesterday; I let them rest for a couple hours then placed them upright in a carton in the incubator. The phoenix egg is my control egg as it was fresh laid and it should be fertile as that hen is very promiscuous...
Wish me luck, it will be a stressful 3 weeks. I hope to just use a broody hen next spring if I have the opportunity.
Oh and I have two more due that are internally pipped. 1 more Marans mix and another of my CCL x GLW crosses - wonder if the 5th one will also be a girl??? The one that just hatched assisted was the first chick I've ever had go past day 21. Today is day 21 for these two eggs as well. I bet our sudden cold front has something to do with it. Usually I have all my pips on the 20th day and they are all hatched by the afternoon of the 21st.