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[Demidog]

we have a pip but it's on the wrong end and i have got to get to work so i give updates in a few hours

Let me know what happens!

6 of my eggs hatched yesterday, i'v got one left that hadn't pipped. Last night at 1am i woke up to check and still nothing. I picked it up and it was tweeting in the air cell and it's beak is right where it's supposed to pip from. I made a tiny hole just in the shell a few mm across, i didn't break the white membrane, i dabbed it with some water, put it back in the incubator and increased the humidity. This morning, still nothing, but it's still tweeting. Not sure what i should do now. This is now day 23 and it's been over 24 hours since my eggs first started hatching. Maybe this one is stuck? I don't want it to die in it's shell, help, what should i do?!?

 

[imogene08]

All 9 of my eggs are alive and growing. Hopefully none of them decide to take a turn for the worst!

 

[Demidog]

My last little chick that i assisted to hatch has finally made it out of it's shell by itself! Only took 12 hours! I though it was never coming out! I'm really happy it's made it, hopefully it's going to be OK. And hopefully it's a girl! Or else we'll have to eat it......

 

[winteree]

i seem to have the worst luck with exploding eggs the first hatch i had i was viewing an egg when i dropped it and it exploded on me and this time. last night around 3 i smelled a horrible smell in my room and tracked it to the incubator and found out it was coming from one of the egg's i didn't see any movement so i put it in a baggie to crack it open and as soon as i turned around bam-o rotten egg got all over the counter. But it looks like the duckling piped on the wrong end through a vein the duckling had to have done this a few days ago to have the smell that bad.

But for the good news the other 5 egg's have all piped but the first wrong end pip seems to have gotten shrink wrapped so i will give it another day if it's still not out by tomorrow morning then i will intervene. some weird has happened with the egg's though all the egg's have external pip's sense yesterday but none other then the wrong end pip have tried to zip yet.

I wish i could show you all pics but i found out last night that my camera ran out of juice and that i was out of AAA battery's long after all the local stores closed. so my dad is out buying me some as we speak.

 

[winteree]

My last little chick that i assisted to hatch has finally made it out of it's shell by itself! Only took 12 hours! I though it was never coming out! I'm really happy it's made it, hopefully it's going to be OK. And hopefully it's a girl! Or else we'll have to eat it......

yay yeah i had 5 duck egg's pip out sense yeasterday morning but they aren't trying to zip for some reason

 

[winteree]

We don't have an incubator with humidity reading so I've just been adding a little water every 3 or so days.

you can get a good humidity meter at walmart or at any pet store

 

[winteree]

Day 7
Does this look normal ?
It's a duck egg

yes that looks very good for day 7

 

[winteree]

On day 7 and candled and have 11 out of 27 are no good (3 blood rings and 8 clears). Do I toss them now? I really wanted a semi full incubator to help with temp stability (still air).

keeping eggs like that is a big gamble because if they explode they could cause all of your chicks to die if the rotten egg's get on the other egg's

 

[winteree]

All 9 of my eggs are alive and growing. Hopefully none of them decide to take a turn for the worst!

we can only hope

 

[Demidog]

This is the chick that i assisted. All of my other chicks started hatching at 5am day 21 and they were all out, apart from this one, by 5pm. By 1am this one still hadn't pipped but it had internally pipped days before and was tweeting loudly, so i made a peep hole and stuck it back in the incubator expecting something to have happened by morning. By about 6am, now day 23, still nothing was happening so after reading and rereading the bit on assisting hatching, and after asking for advice on here, i decided to go ahead and start zipping the shell manually. I picked the shell off with tweezers and the top came off. I wrapped it in a dampened paper towel and stuck it back in the incubator and waited......and waited.....and waited......i was advised to peel back the membrane although i think maybe i shouldn't have, and i waited some more......and finally by 5pm day 23 it got itself out! It's now in with the others, although i'm a bit worried because they're pecking it but they're also pecking each other too. They're all still in the incubator because the wee chick is not fully fluffed up. I'm going to move them all to the brooder when i go to bed, hopefully the red light will stop them pecking each other so much.

Anyway, here's some pics!






Took about 12 hours from when i opened up the shell for it to come out on it's own.



That's it in the middle lying down. All my chicks made it!!