Should I help?

[Ravynscroft]

My duck begs to differ, cooling does not hurt the eggs... she frequently goes off her nest for the entire day and comes back quite cool and wet, has 100% hatch rate with her method even...

 

[jvls1942]

No...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Should I try to help it at this point? It's been trying to push through for two days

If it's not internally pipped, I would wait... may or may not make it, but internally pipping for an egg *in most cases* does not end well... jmo...

 

[jvls1942]

the natural hatching has no bearing toward artificial incubation.
we are trying to mimic ..
and we do a good job, mostly.
if you are incubating with an incubator, I defy you to open it all day like the duck leaving her nest.
she knows what she is doing.
My ducks only leave their nest long enough to get a bite to eat, take a drink and head back to the nest.
usually about a 10 minute ritual.
when the duck gets back onto her eggs. it is instant heat and humidity.
after someone opens up the incubator, it is a long time before these two items stabilize again.

I agree with not wrapping the egg with a paper towel.
evaporating water cools things down. and eventually the towel will dry out and really stick to that egg.

....jiminwisc......

 

[chickens really]

Keep waiting....Interfering could cause way more problems for you and the Duckling...If it's meant to hatch?...It will...Walk away and let it do what it needs too.....

 

[Brookem51887]

Has it externally piped the shell yet?

No. It's getting weaker and still trying but slowing down

 

[chickens really]

the natural hatching has no bearing toward artificial incubation.
we are trying to mimic ..
and we do a good job, mostly.
if you are incubating with an incubator, I defy you to open it all day like the duck leaving her nest.
she knows what she is doing.
My ducks only leave their nest long enough to get a bite to eat, take a drink and head back to the nest.
usually about a 10 minute ritual.
when the duck gets back onto her eggs. it is instant heat and humidity.
after someone opens up the incubator, it is a long time before these two items stabilize again.

I agree with not wrapping the egg with a paper towel.
evaporating water cools things down. and eventually the towel will dry out and really stick to that egg.

....jiminwisc......

My power was out for 13 hours...no heat ....All Call and Mini Appleyard...All thriving and due next week.....I open and close my incubators all through the hatch phase to put them into the Brooder...I have excellent hatches.

 

[Brookem51887]

Keep waiting....Interfering could cause way more problems for you and the Duckling...If it's meant to hatch?...It will...Walk away and let it do what it needs too.....

Will do

 

[chickens really]

Will do

Follow Ravyscrofts info...She taught me and is well known here on BYC on her ability to help hatch Ducklings...She knows her Duck eggs....Stressful but worth the wait.....

 

[Ravynscroft]

if you are incubating with an incubator, I defy you to open it all day like the duck leaving her nest.

Just an fyi, but I do... frequently... and have great hatch rates, thanks...