~Shipped Duck Egg 'Hatch-a-long' Due Aug 21, 2013 CANDLING PICS~

[Griffin Nest]

#2 PIPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HEAR IT CHIRPING!! No pics yet because its very small and i cant catch it on camera. But it's there

 

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It's day 26 here's one more pip that happened overnight!! Also I think #2 is getting ready to start zipping! #3 hasn't pipped yet but it's shaking!

 

[Griffin Nest]

Impatiently waiting for something to happen

 

[Griffin Nest]

One egg has been internally pipped for over 24 hours now and hasn't externally pipped. Do you think its stuck?? The air cell is really big.

Also #2, the egg that made the first pipped made a second pip that still hasn't broken the membrane. Not much progress here.

 

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3 more hours of nothing

 

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#2 has been pipped for 22 hours so I helped. All i did was open up the pip by a tiny bit so it could breath.

EDIT: 2 hours and no sign of it trying to come out

 

[Griffin Nest]

It's been more than 24 hours and things aren't looking good. It looks like the chick cannot move. I also made an artificial pip for the one that was internally pipped for 36 hours. They all look like they can't move...what do i do?

 

[sweetsilence83]

Don't make any holes in the shell. I have had the ducklings pip internally and take a week or longer after the internal pip. Most of my ducklings are wiggling and chirping for a few days before the first external pip, which looks like a tiny dent in the shell, then take 12 to 30 hours to finally hatch. The air cell will expand to take up almost a third of the egg by the time they are ready to hatch and the air cell will be in almost a u shape, I'll try to upload a picture of one of mine that's a few days from hatching. Try to crank the humidity up to 70% until they pip externally the temp should be at 100 degrees F I also lightly spray the eggs with room temperature water for the last few days before hatching only once in the am and again in the pm before bed. I've only lost 2 eggs out of the 14 that have hatched so far. The first one was due to my over-excited 5 year old punching a hole in the egg the second was shrink wrapped due to the temp in the incubator spiking to 110 when my ac broke luckily the other 2 in that bator are okay but I upped the humidity just incase. The one I lost was closer to hatching than the other two. When they do pip try to up the humidity to almost 80% duck eggs are thicker than chicken eggs and the ones I hatched with the higher humidity seemed to have an easier time. So far the temporary increase in humidity hasn't hurt the later hatching eggs.

 

[sweetsilence83]

Good luck! I hope this helps. Ducks hatch a lot differently than chickens

 

[sweetsilence83]

Here is a pic of my egg that is due Wednesday, he may go a little later. As long as you see some movement even a little they are fine. You already made a viewing hole so they can breathe as long as there is movement and they have pipped internally they will be fine. And when they finally hatch you will understand why they looked like they couldn't move.