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

[Ravynscroft]

View attachment 1334644 I still have an egg tooth. . and I am not afraid to use it on you!

So happy for you!!!!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

So happy for you!!!!

ThanksI'm glad I at least got 2. But wow. . 2 out of 15 is so sad! Why do they have to be so difficult.
Other 4 are confirmed not gonna hatch.

They all looked pretty much like this. Egg topsy revealed nothing I could tell was wrong other than just never pipped internally. Membrane was all brown and dried up in there.
One Cayuga egg is a quitter no veins and all slosh y inside. But still going with the Other three
Oh. . and three of the 4 I just egg topsied looked pastel
One looked like a grey.

 

[duluthralphie]

View attachment 1334502 OMG. I can't handle the cuteness!

Would you like me to send you my picture...then they would look really ugly next to it......

 

[shawluvsbirds]

All had turned toward the air cell except #5. #5 I think was still alive yesterday but today it looked like the other quitters. That one had its head buried way down in the middle of the egg almost at the other end and had a enormous yolk sack. It almost looked like two yolk sacks. It's bill was kind of buried in the yolk. . Does that mean anything? It almost looked like it tried to pip into its own yolk sack and ruptured it. Is that possible?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Would you like me to send you my picture...then they would look really ugly next to it......

Only if you look like this guy

 

[Ravynscroft]

ThanksI'm glad I at least got 2. But wow. . 2 out of 15 is so sad! Why do they have to be so difficult.
Other 4 are confirmed not gonna hatch. View attachment 1334661 They all looked pretty much like this. Egg topsy revealed nothing I could tell was wrong other than just never pipped internally. Membrane was all brown and dried up in there.
One Cayuga egg is a quitter no veins and all slosh y inside. But still going with the Other three
Oh. . and three of the 4 I just egg topsied looked pastel
One looked like a grey.

Hatching Calls is difficult all around... the smaller and more to type they are, the lower the hatch rate...

Cuteness' first season laying, I hatched 3 from 30-40 eggs...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Hatching Calls is difficult all around... the smaller and more to type they are, the lower the hatch rate...

Cuteness' first season laying, I hatched 3 from 30-40 eggs...

Wow! That's really really sad.

 

[duluthralphie]

Only if you look like this guy View attachment 1334685

If I looked that bad I would become a hermit and hide my face!

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Wow I knew they were hard to hatch but that's some tough numbers. Knowing that, you getting those 2 beautiful babies makes them extra wonderful.

I'm getting more nervous about mine. They are so shaken! They are @ day 11 now. I was reading pyxis' hatching article about laying them on their sides but slightly angled. Should I shut the turner off and angle them? I could turn them but not as often as the bator.

Sorry for the derail.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Wow I knew they were hard to hatch but that's some tough numbers. Knowing that, you getting those 2 beautiful babies makes them extra wonderful.

I'm getting more nervous about mine. They are so shaken! They are @ day 11 now. I was reading pyxis' hatching article about laying them on their sides but slightly angled. Should I shut the turner off and angle them? I could turn them but not as often as the bator.

Sorry for the derail.

Ask all the questions you want here
It's fine with me.