Very large saddle aircell, day 24 duck eggs.

[jolenesdad]

Here is a duck egg that had my “worst saddle” as you can see on the notes. ;-) you can also see the saddle cell marked in pencil and that’s the candling from SETTING this egg. The final cell is marked just above this drawing down and then you can see how far drawn down the egg was. Half the egg.

I will find my notes to see if this egg pipped on the bottom or not.

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

Here is a duck egg that had my “worst saddle” as you can see on the notes. ;-) you can also see the saddle cell marked in pencil and that’s the candling from SETTING this egg. The final cell is marked just above this drawing down and then you can see how far drawn down the egg was. Half the egg.

I will find my notes to see if this egg pipped on the bottom or not.

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Thank you!

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

Thank you!

Here is a duck egg that had my “worst saddle” as you can see on the notes. ;-) you can also see the saddle cell marked in pencil and that’s the candling from SETTING this egg. The final cell is marked just above this drawing down and then you can see how far drawn down the egg was. Half the egg.

I will find my notes to see if this egg pipped on the bottom or not.

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Also, that is the neatest and smartest thing! I had never thought to keep a notebook on the eggs! I just wing it usually...
I think I need to get more serious haha.
I do have extensive spreadsheets on all birds after they hatch so... I might do one for my hatches!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Also, that is the neatest and smartest thing! I had never thought to keep a notebook on the eggs! I just wing it usually...
I think I need to get more serious haha.
I do have extensive spreadsheets on all birds after they hatch so... I might do one for my hatches!

lol, @jolenesdad is the master of hatch documentation. He put my forms to shame and I really thought I was organized before I saw what he kept notes on!

 

[jolenesdad]

It gets really hard when you set too many eggs. But I’m so nervous to do shipped eggs and get nothing, so I always pack them in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ plus I had internal pips at lockdown last time, so I rushed through the final weighing.

So much of incubation is YOUR environment, your incubator, your room, etc. I figured I would start taking the notes I could and go from there to see if I see things happen the same over time.

Plus, I try and incubate various ways (some on the side and some upright) and see what works and what doesn’t.

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

Mega saddle egg had notnpipped but I did not take the time to take a picture since I noticed the external pip. I QUICK closed that incubator!
The chick that piped externally on the wrong end literally seemed panicky and made HUGE dents in the egg shell. Like I saw shell fly off, but the membrane seemed very leathery ( a problem all my eggs seem to have and I don't know why.) So I pricked open the membrane carefully for air. And now the baby is peeping but no longer desperately pecking in the egg.
I feel like I'm going to be up alllllll night.
Hey, maybe I'm a LITTLE crazy. I worry like their my own babies

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Mega saddle egg had notnpipped but I did not take the time to take a picture since I noticed the external pip. I QUICK closed that incubator!
The chick that piped externally on the wrong end literally seemed panicky and made HUGE dents in the egg shell. Like I saw shell fly off, but the membrane seemed very leathery ( a problem all my eggs seem to have and I don't know why.) So I pricked open the membrane carefully for air. And now the baby is peeping but no longer desperately pecking in the egg.
I feel like I'm going to be up alllllll night.
Hey, maybe I'm a LITTLE crazy. I worry like their my own babies

I think we're all a little crazy! Join the club! lol
You may just need to increase the humidity if you're consistently finding that the membrane is dry.

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

I think we're all a little crazy! Join the club! lol
You may just need to increase the humidity if you're consistently finding that the membrane is dry.

I tried increasing humidity to 55% + in another hatch, and I had 7 drown, but the egg was still leathery! I even refrained from opening the incubator at all after lockdown and turned the humidity to 70% (maybe too high at the end)
But in the egtopsy, the egg was still leathery.
I think it might be a genetic fault in my female. She also has some pretty thick shells.
I would not use her except she has the BEST temperament, and seems resistant to a bug that made my whole flock sick several times. (Vet said a virus of some kind, he does not know what)
Her daughter I kept is also seemingly immune.
It's quite interesting!

 

[jolenesdad]

I tried increasing humidity to 55% + in another hatch, and I had 7 drown, but the egg was still leathery! I even refrained from opening the incubator at all after lockdown and turned the humidity to 70% (maybe too high at the end)
But in the egtopsy, the egg was still leathery.
I think it might be a genetic fault in my female. She also has some pretty thick shells.
I would not use her except she has the BEST temperament, and seems resistant to a bug that made my whole flock sick several times. (Vet said a virus of some kind, he does not know what)
Her daughter I kept is also seemingly immune.
It's quite interesting!

When the pip the wrong end, make sure you allot for the time they would have internal and external pipped before needing to assist. That could be 48 PLUS hours.

 

[WolfGirlMagic]

When the pip the wrong end, make sure you allot for the time they would have internal and external pipped before needing to assist. That could be 48 PLUS hours.

I appreciate the reminder! This duckling is doing lots of talking and tapping. It is most determined than any duckling I've had in the past. It's already seeming to zip! (Which is crazy since it's so early!)
I've just been waiting to see if I see bruising or external pips from the other eggs.
I also talk and tap a lot on the top ofothe bator because it seems to encourage the weaker ones to keep trying.