Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Goin Quackrrs]

I seem to have forgotten to count the one Silkie in incubator 1 and the possible chicken egg also in incubator 1.

 

[Marty1876]

Hi all.

Love the baby "king of the couch" pic! He's so cute.

One of my little ducks appears to have internally pipped. All of good Air cells, except the one w/the worst wonky cell, but all are looking basically viable.

I hiope to see some real progress tomarrow.

Feeling a little under-the-weather. so I'll see you all tomarrow.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Hello all!!!

Whos on?!

Night marty!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Fantastic news Marty!

Egg #1 decided to zip about 2/3 then take a rest. No external pips from any others yet. I am starting to get a little worried about egg #2, but it is so dry here now that my bator is locked down until egg #1 hatches or my pidgey egg internally pips.

In my goose bator, I am super excited to report 3 beautiful spiders in my buff dewlaps!! I must have hot spots in my bat ors when filled to max, because I have 4 day 22 anconas with major shadowing in back of air cell. They look further along than my day 26 pidgey egg. Hope I get a few healthy babies to hatch!

 

[bakingintherain]

Can't milk a duck?!?? Then someone explain this....



Apparently you can milk rabbits too.

I wonder how drunk you have to be to milk a duck and/or a rabbit

you guys are bad!

Here is my candling torch with the foam stuff round the end:



In the pic below you can see how the light goes through the egg, rather than spilling round the sides. That is an un-incubated duck egg.

that is brilliant! i love it! i will have to add that to my list for tomorrow

the duckling is worse today.
its like hes fading, or doesnt want to live anymore.
he wont use his bad leg now. barely tries to move.
and the other 2 brats were picking on him bcuz his bad leg just twitches. like it has nerve damage or sumthin.
i put him in a yougart cup to keep him safe from them, and under the heat lamp.

is it bad to wish he had passed on in the night ?

bcuz i kinda do .
i hate seeing him like this, bcuz i cant fix it.

i am so sorry, and it is not bad to wish that at all! hopefully if he is that bad off he will just fall asleep and be free of pain. he will be greeted with lots of love from all of his lost buddie on rainbow bridge!

we are all here for you!

 

[sbost]

Sbost, there should definitely be space at the fat end. That's normal. Although the duckling grows during the indubation period, moisture evaporates as well. By the end, the egg has a big space in it.

You can leave them in the incubator for the hatching process as long as you shut the turning mechanism off on day 25. Or you can move them to the hatching incubator at day 25 if you like. If your hatching incubator is the kind without a fan and is easier to clean, then those are good reasons for moving the eggs to the hatching incubator. Personally, I just leave mine in the same incubator for the whole time.

Edit: You want to have continuous hatches of course and so don't want to turn off the turner in your main incubator... So, yes, move them to the hatching incubator at day 25 (with no turning). Sit them on their sides with the fat end up slightly.

Lockdown just means 'try not to open the lid in the last three days'.

What kind of surface is uinder the eggs? It is good to put down some non-slip drawer liner. It gives the new hatchlings something to grip onto. Helps with cleaning a bit too. The incubator does get awfully messy during hatches.

Hope that helps Keep aasking away - we are here to help and all questions are good questions.

That's what I thought about the 25 days but I may have misunderstood someone else. I can definitely pick up the drawer liner... I thought the wire looked like it might hurt their feet. You may have missed my earlier posts, I mistakenly have been putting my eggs in almost daily as my ducks laid them.

One thing I still do not understand is that I when I candle my eggs, there is space at the bottom and I can see large veins and things moving like the duck. The entire egg is not dark except for the air sack. Is it normal for there to be space at the bottom and to be able to see the large veins, etc. These would be duck eggs 19-22 days old from pekings, snowie mallard, buff and cayuga.

Thanks!

 

[Wulfandwyn]

Hi everyone! I have managed to drag myself away from the ducklings for a bit.

Here are the cuties today. I had to move them and the hen to the garage because we are supposed to have some bad weather and the poor chickens didn't like being left out of their tractor-coop and I was worried about the chickens eating the ducklings. I think I might have some blues in that group. They make the cutest chirping noises

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Hi everyone! I have managed to drag myself away from the ducklings for a bit.

Here are the cuties today. I had to move them and the hen to the garage because we are supposed to have some bad weather and the poor chickens didn't like being left out of their tractor-coop and I was worried about the chickens eating the ducklings. I think I might have some blues in that group. They make the cutest chirping noises

Aww. I love Muscovy babies so much! They are pure sweetness!

 

[ChristineR]

1 with no pips
2 with internal pips
1 with external pip!!!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

1 with no pips
2 with internal pips
1 with external pip!!!