Really really fed up :(

[portiaari]

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Either you're off on the due date or your incubator is running a little cool.
For fresh home grown duck eggs I run them at 38% humidity until I shut the turner off then gradually up to 55% on hatching day with shipped eggs that are usually older and more dried out I increase the humidity to somewhere between 40-45% depending on how big the air sac is and then 55% on hatching day.
Please let us know how your hatch turns out!
Aprille

Thanks Aprille, hopefully once these 3 hatch then i can up the humidity to 38-40 % and keep the temp a bit higher for the last 2 x​

 

[portiaari]

Hi all, I think I am off with the due date, the first 5 were due over the weekend and I forgot to put in when these are due, but it must be sometime this week. The airsacs are all tilting now, so fingers crossed these ones will make it! Will post another photo tonight to show the growth of the airsac! Thought one of my hens was getting broody on my ducks eggs in the coop, but she wandered off after and hour

Maybe she'll change her mind tomorrow!

 

[portiaari]

Right I'm all fed up again now, I candled the 3 eggs due about now just now, 1 egg is showing red blood vessels still and the other 2 aren't, photo below is of the same egg as above, that had blood vessels and movement yesterday. Help, I'm going to go mad, I think 2 are dead in shell again

 

[portiaari]

 

[Katy]

By the time they are due to hatch it can sometimes be hard to see much of everything since the chick/duckling is taking up so much space.

Honestly at the stage they are you're probably doing more harm than good with candleing them. You can't do anything to change much at this point in time so you'll be ahead just to shut the lid on the incubator and leave them alone.

 

[pete55]

Im afraid the last picture appears to be dead in shell. There is an area of 'sickly' looking yellow fluid between the mass of the embryo and edge of the air cell. In late incubation you can just see active vessels in this area when the embryo is alive.

Its hard for me to judge with a picture but Im pretty sure Im right

You are learning so much but I still think your temp was high at 38C and would not have gone above 37.5C.

Pete

 

[portiaari]

So the two that look like that are dead in shell, how depressing, they were alive yesterday, i hope the last one makes it

 

[portiaari]

Yep those 2 were dead in shell

Just feel like crap now, 1 more but I just know that one is going to die too, nothing I can do, just don't get it. 2 more not due until 7th april, maybe just maybe they'll make it x

 

[wolftracks]

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If this woman tells you how to get a good hatch........listen!

I went from great hatches to the worse hatches on BYC to great hatches again, just from using her cheat sheet and listening to her.

You've got a great mentor, so take advantage.

Good luck and have fun with your new ducklings when they hatch.

 

[KWAK]

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I feel pretty crappy my self

This is my 3rd time trying to hatch chicks... 1st batch 2 hatched but thanks to my stupidity they died ( i left them in to long because i was told not to open the bator until all eggs hatch)

2nd batch... none even started...
3rd- had 16 eggs now down to 8

if i even get one i'll be happy.... i always lose them in the 1st week and keep them alive for the rest of the time sooo maybe my 4th batch (they have been in for a week and a half) will all live... i havnt lost any of them...

hope my 8 hatch soon