Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[stillmecle]

Here are the pictures of the eggs

 

[stillmecle]

My turkey keeps having this. I just keep washing it. It never seems to be a problem with the ducks.

Isn't there something to put on their butts, maybe vaseline or something.

 

[Marty1876]

I'm glad to see that egg. I have one similar. Maybe I'll post it too, and see what Celtic or Iain or QJ say.....

 

[JulieNKC]

SM- Looks like a ruptured air cell to me. I have quite a few EE developing that look like that.

 

[stillmecle]

I'm glad to see that egg. I have one similar. Maybe I'll post it too, and see what Celtic or Iain or QJ say.....

I don't want to lose these eggs. I only have 4 of them and they cost a pretty dollar....

 

[bakingintherain]

You

ducks and geese and we talk about them all the time?

When we first moved here several years ago, my mom brought me some fresh black australorp eggs to eat. My elder DD was 2, so I made a styrofoam cooler into an incubator with a 25 watt bulb, two thermometers, and a bunch of holes with duct tape covers I opened and closed as needed. We put all 12 eggs in, and hatched out only 4 chicks, but Ruth was so happy and proud.

I bought the (now older) hova w/fan and turners after that, and we've been using it every since. It was way more fun doing it for my own and my daughters happiness than it had been turning eggs for my mom in the big aluminum incubator.

Now I'm a hatch addict. I am powerless over the hatching urge and my life is occasionally unmanagable. Do I need a 12 step group??

hubby is convince i need that 12 step program, i am enjoying some yummy strawberry margarita's tonight

well
still no change.
no noise that i can hear.
if noone ext pips within the next hours i am going to candle to make sure everyone is ok.
((no lectures!))

I think you should listen to your "inner duck" and do what you think is best!

hope it works out for you

I ususally hatch Khakis and regular Pekings, and they aren't like quail, they come all at different times, except in very large hatches (of say 50) where many come in 24 hours. There is always a first, and a last (if your lucky) and one might have been closer to heat source, and is ready now. The ones toward the dead center can be slower. It just works that way for me. Perhaps this is the explanation.

I have some special Jumbo Pekings baking, and I'm worrying over them constantly. I really want them, and I've only 7 of 13 original eggs. Seems like every 3 or 4 days, one goes south. I don't lockdown until the 21st. My last hatch (turkeys and quail) went south after an egg blew up. As a result, I've started candling more. I've bleached, I used a new bator, I'm monitoring like every other die hard hatch addict. I think I'm gonna go have some leftover green beer.

that is nice to know, i will have to start rotating my turners! i am trying to make myself stay to a set 7 day, 14 day, 21 day and 25-27 day candle to reduce the risk of shrink wrapping, it will be hard but i really want a hatch that where i don't have to help every single baby!

if this hatch goes bad and i dont end up with atleast 2 ducklings
i doubt ill try again.
ill leave it to the broodys.
im apparently doing somethign wrong.
my heat is fine. my humidity is fine.
thees no eason they should be dying.


on second thought i may try one last time. (third times the charm right?)

im so woried about these guys. i need progress to know they r ok.

keep trying it will happen

I had to send Pocket to the Rainbow Bridge today. She was looking pretty rough, so I ran her water in the sink for a swim. But when I put her in, she just sank. Her legs had atrophied to the point that she couldn't swim. So I loved on her a bit, and then did what I had to do.

I'm a little heartbroken right now, so...

RIP Pocket Duck:

i am so sorry, she is in a better place with all of her lost friends

They should be due sometime around the 28th, same time as my BEI's


She isn't the mama to the babies. She is a Buff Oprington and the babies are from Pekin eggs I bought. She did not like those babies being with her. She is sitting on some eggs herself.

oh i know i thought you were trying to get her to accept them, she is beautiful!

 

[stillmecle]

SM- Looks like a ruptured air cell to me. I have quite a few EE developing that look like that.

So what can I do???

 

[Marty1876]

Can they still make it, Julie? I have a duck egg that way. I was kinda wondering. Its still developing, and responds to light.

 

[country_girl011]

ok so no ext pips yet.
so i candled again.
2 still working away. i think 1 is almost there the outside of the shell looks funny where hes working. so hopefully before bedtime he has something. if not i will put a hole in both eggs for them.
1 that had internally pipped earlier looks weird. like the chick died or something. idk.
i have 3 that the chicks are dead for sure. veins gone. slumped 2 one side.
and the rest still no change.

 

[stillmecle]

hubby is convince i need that 12 step program, i am enjoying some yummy strawberry margarita's tonight

oh i know i thought you were trying to get her to accept them, she is beautiful!

Golden Margarita here

I was hoping that she would accept them, she was fine with one, but 8 of them threw her for a loop. I need to go candle the ones that she is sitting on and mark them