Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Goin Quackrrs]

A nice woman directed me to a hatch day thread. I think she meant this one?
Anyone around? I have a pip and I'm freaking out

PS: today is the due date!

Yes, this is the place.

There's usually someone around, but it's busy season, so not as many people as during spring.

Pip is good. You should have your first baby in 24-48 hours. Go find something to do, keep busy and hands off. Don't open that incubator!

Unfortunately, they don't hatch any faster when we hover.

 

[Patty43]

Just wondering how the heck will I know what is going on under my duck. Yesterday she was off the nest and I saw that a few eggs had externally pipped. Today she is stuck on there . Do I just wait and see?

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Just wondering how the heck will I know what is going on under my duck. Yesterday she was off the nest and I saw that a few eggs had externally pipped. Today she is stuck on there . Do I just wait and see?

Hold tight and let mom do her magic.

 

[Patty43]

Ok but it is just nerve wracking. Im so anxious to see

 

[Patty43]

At least one has hatched. She stood up over the nest and there it was. She promptly tucked it back under and sat back down. Darn, all I really wanted was one good look. On the other hand, I did manage to see a few more eggs starting to hatch. Its unbelievable how caught up you can get over eggs hatching.

 

[Amykins]

I really need your guys' support.

This morning both of my eggs died. Well...I say both, there's still some sort of deluded hope for one of them because I just plain can't see inside, but the other is definitely dead. And it's all my fault.

I can't stop crying and I don't know what to do. ._. This is my first hatch so I guess it hurts way worse than if I were a seasoned hatcher.

 

[Amiga]

Amykins, hatching is really tough alot of the time, from what I have read here. You tried. We none of us know everything we always need to know especially the first time.

And C. S. Lewis wrote,

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I really need your guys' support.

This morning both of my eggs died. Well...I say both, there's still some sort of deluded hope for one of them because I just plain can't see inside, but the other is definitely dead. And it's all my fault.

I can't stop crying and I don't know what to do. ._. This is my first hatch so I guess it hurts way worse than if I were a seasoned hatcher.

I'm so sorry. I know how you feel. I've lost entire incubators full of eggs before and it'll break your heart to pieces.

I know this is little consolation, but some babies just aren't able to hatch and survive.

I cried for hours after I lost one in particular. I won't go into details, but in the end I had to accept that had the duckling survived my desperate attempt to save it, it would had died within days anyway. The whole situation was my fault because I thought I had a dead egg and it wasn't.

 

[Amykins]

Thanks, guys...ugh. I wish I could stop crying.

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks, guys...ugh. I wish I could stop crying. 

I recently killed a whole incubator-full by stupidly trusting my thermometer without calibrating again for the season. It can be hard, and sometimes we make silly mistakes that cost lives, but in the end, the ones that do hatch make it worth it. We've all made really stupid mistakes, so try not to blame yourself too much.