Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[shawluvsbirds]

I'm not a duck person, but with chicken eggs, I've had some air cells that just won't draw down in an incubator with others that are drawn down normally and I just can't reduce humidity or I risk the normal ones... In every case but one, the chicks with the small air cells did fine. In the one case where the chick didn't make it, if I had been paying closer attention, I could have saved it.
Guess what I'm trying to say is that your eggs are probably going to do fine.

It just makes me nervous cause this is the one who's eggs tend to die in the shell right at hatch time. I think they just don't have enough room in there to peck out with those tiny bills.

 

[Ravynscroft]

It just makes me nervous cause this is the one who's eggs tend to die in the shell right at hatch time. I think they just don't have enough room in there to peck out with those tiny bills.

It's not so much the smallness of the bills as it is the shortness of the necks... not much you can really do at this stage, besides the mama factor anyways...

 

[duluthralphie]

Fake Eilleen.... As much as I hate to see a DUX hatch into this world and pollute my air and water.....I hate to see you cry worse... So

Do not worry about the eggs under a broody. Sometimes when you (I assume a human being) think a hen goes broody and starts sitting is not the same day they actually do. They may have some false starts.....maybe they are just thinking about sitting... who knows..

It could be their internal temps have not risen enough, there is a multitude of reasons the Duxlings could hatch later than you think..

Go back into the house, grab your gitfiddle and write a new song or two.. dedicated to moi.......

What will be will be..... relax and have a beer....

 

[casportpony]

Anything can enter the egg through the CAM. The shell itself is porous.

That's what happened to this egg I think:
Duck Eggtopsy - Warning, Lots of Graphic Pictures!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Fake Eilleen.... As much as I hate to see a DUX hatch into this world and pollute my air and water.....I hate to see you cry worse... So

Do not worry about the eggs under a broody. Sometimes when you (I assume a human being) think a hen goes broody and starts sitting is not the same day they actually do. They may have some false starts.....maybe they are just thinking about sitting... who knows..

It could be their internal temps have not risen enough, there is a multitude of reasons the Duxlings could hatch later than you think..

Go back into the house, grab your gitfiddle and write a new song or two.. dedicated to moi.......

What will be will be..... relax and have a beer....

I'll work on that song here in a bit after I've had my beer

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Well. . I got good news and bad news. Day 10 . . three more bad eggs. So down to 11.

I guess they just quit. . ? Veins were fine the other day.

good egg. . but what's with that weird circle in air cell?

good egg. . lots of movement.

so here are where my air cells are.

and here is my humidity.
@WVduckchick
And everyone else. . comment away please.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

same bad egg from first pic at a different angle. No veins. . just a sort of a blood ring.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

According to my digital thermometer that shows high and low for the day the high was 103 and low 57
I don't think I believe that though. I look at my regular thermometers a lot and never see them above 100
Or below 98

 

[CayugaJana]

Lots of good pictures Shaw. I didn’t know what a blood ring was until you mentioned it. So how many do you have left in the incubator?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Lots of good pictures Shaw. I didn’t know what a blood ring was until you mentioned it. So how many do you have left in the incubator?

11 left. All good squirmy embryos in them. Hope it stays that way