Runner Duck Hatch-a-Long! 2021

[JoJoM]

Hoping all goes well through the night! I hear lots of chirping, no external pips though. Trying to keep the humidity up but it’s been hard!
It’s low in my house, it drops to 50% even with a full Tupperware in there. I add hot water every few hours.
Tomorrow is day 28, hoping for some good news. I’m glad I took the day off, I’ll be glued to the incubator all day.

 

[AAcres]

Ok. That's good if there's movement. The holes don't have to be too small, you should be able to see through them some.
That's good.

thank you so much for your help!

 

[AAcres]

Hoping all goes well through the night! I hear lots of chirping, no external pips though. Trying to keep the humidity up but it’s been hard!
It’s low in my house, it drops to 50% even with a full Tupperware in there. I add hot water every few hours.
Tomorrow is day 28, hoping for some good news. I’m glad I took the day off, I’ll be glued to the incubator all day.

good luck tomorrow!
I was glued to mine for three hours today while this duckling hatched. My husband ended up having to entertain the kids and cook Easter dinner by himself. Bless his soul

Keep us posted!

 

[graypes]

good luck tomorrow!
I was glued to mine for three hours today while this duckling hatched. My husband ended up having to entertain the kids and cook Easter dinner by himself. Bless his soul

Keep us posted!

sorry for the egg you lost! Hopefully your new chick is starting to dry off and/or take its first wobbly steps! Mine all came out of the egg SUPER WEAK and I was freaking out but its totally normal! One they've dried off enough to move into the brooder, I definitely recommend giving it some duck electrolytes in water! I used durvet at first and then got save-a-chick in the mail a few days later and honestly that saved my most critical duckling! Definitely good to keep that stuff handy! Oh, and try a little bacitracin or polysporin on the navel later, all of mine had rough navels and they healed fine except one that keeps opening up, apparently its best to prevent omphalitis (clean brooder, clean navel, no swimming till its all healed up etc.) before it has the chance to happen (that is if your navel truly seems "open" still! The rest of mine's navels closed uo and shrank within a few days with no intervention, just the one critical hatch has had ALL the problems lol. hope that helps

 

[JoJoM]

I have 6 external pips! Two were there when I woke up, the others in the last couple hours. That leaves the one pekin I suspect has died and one Blue Runner who I’m hoping is just planning on being late for the party.

AAcres - how are yours coming along?

 

[JoJoM]

So far one lonely baby. This is Webster. He/she still had some yolk that didn’t absorb so Hes a little crusty. I’ll keep him in the bator until we get a brooder buddy for him. He’s doing really well now. He is yellow and black - pekin egg. Drake possibilities are Rouen, Khaki Campbell, or Cayuga. She has a pekin drake but I assume of he was daddy the duckling would be all yellow?

 

[AAcres]

I have one hatched out, that I mentioned before. I lost all remaining eggs or SO I THOUGHT.
I was looking in all of them to be sure and opened one and noticed it was still breathing!

@MGG S.O.S!

I put the egg back into the incubator. How can I help it? It hasn’t even internally pipped yet. but neither did the others and they died. How do I help this one so it doesn’t die ?

 

[MGG]

I have one hatched out, that I mentioned before. I lost all remaining eggs or SO I THOUGHT.
I was looking in all of them to be sure and opened one and noticed it was still breathing!

@MGG S.O.S!

I put the egg back into the incubator. How can I help it? It hasn’t even internally pipped yet. but neither did the others and they died. How do I help this one so it doesn’t die ?

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Ok, what day is it on now?
Just keep the humidity high. And don't touch it too much.

 

[AAcres]

Ok, what day is it on now?
Just keep the humidity high. And don't touch it too much.

Day 29.
All others died in their shells and I candled this one and didn’t see any movement that I saw yesterday so I opened it more.
Is this the start of it shrink wrapping?

 

[MGG]

Day 29.
All others died in their shells and I candled this one and didn’t see any movement that I saw yesterday so I opened it more.
Is this the start of it shrink wrapping?

Awww. That's sad!
It does not look shrinkwrapped, no. The white membrane is normal. Just keep the humidity around 70%, and monitor it. Can you see much through the menbrane? Blood vessels or anything?