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Hi yes! We successfully had 4 babies hatch. First thing I’d do is label the eggs and start a chart to make updates on. We didn’t know how far along they were so we candled them a few times till they started filling up most of the eggs. There were a bunch that did not form anything. Keeping the...

Thank you, so you think it is ok to take him completely out of the incubator?? Will that interfere with the others?

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Hello all! Please if you have any advice on assisting my duck eggs hatch. Number 16 has been working hard and chirping/ trying to get his beak out. I believe he is resting right now, but when do you try to help? Number 12 had a lot of movement yesterday and made a lot of progress through the...

Thank you so so much for the reply Lauren!! I’m new to this whole thing so I only labeled the photos and not the eggs themselves for reference of the post! I’m going to candle them again tomorrow and label them properly on the shells to make it easier to refer to. I will take updated photos...

Hello, I found an abandoned nest of 22 duck eggs. The mom duck was a Muscovy duck, the neighbor who had them in her yard said it probably happened early morning (I found them later in the morning). This is my first time attempting to incubate eggs and I tried to do the candle test but have no...