seberger22
Chirping
- May 25, 2017
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Hi all,
Day 28 for my duck eggs was yesterday, but I had one duckling hatch on Tuesday night. Since there had been absolutely no action from the other eggs (no pipping, no rocking and rolling, no noise--I'm used to chicken eggs, maybe ducks are different?), I thought the other 7 I have were not going to hatch.
I have my incubator in my classroom at school, so I was considering getting rid of the eggs before I leave today because I don't want to come back to a stinky mess on Monday morning.
However, I decided to candle a couple of them this morning to see what happened and to see if there's any last hope to hang onto with these eggs before I threw away viable ducklings.
When I candled them, I saw movement in there! So I don't know what to do. Why aren't they hatching? Should I do something for them?
I had to open the incubator yesterday morning to take out the duckling that hatched Tuesday night, so I tried to add some warm water and sponges when I did so. I also opened the incubator this morning to take the eggs out to candle, so I tried to put warm water in this morning too after the eggs seemed viable. I hope I didn't shrinkwrap any! The humidity in the incubator currently reads 80%.
What should I do? Should I leave them over the weekend? Should I do something for them? I leave at 1pm today, so I don't really want to start an assisted hatch since I wouldn't be able to see it through over the weekend.
Any suggestions??
Day 28 for my duck eggs was yesterday, but I had one duckling hatch on Tuesday night. Since there had been absolutely no action from the other eggs (no pipping, no rocking and rolling, no noise--I'm used to chicken eggs, maybe ducks are different?), I thought the other 7 I have were not going to hatch.
I have my incubator in my classroom at school, so I was considering getting rid of the eggs before I leave today because I don't want to come back to a stinky mess on Monday morning.
However, I decided to candle a couple of them this morning to see what happened and to see if there's any last hope to hang onto with these eggs before I threw away viable ducklings.
When I candled them, I saw movement in there! So I don't know what to do. Why aren't they hatching? Should I do something for them?
I had to open the incubator yesterday morning to take out the duckling that hatched Tuesday night, so I tried to add some warm water and sponges when I did so. I also opened the incubator this morning to take the eggs out to candle, so I tried to put warm water in this morning too after the eggs seemed viable. I hope I didn't shrinkwrap any! The humidity in the incubator currently reads 80%.
What should I do? Should I leave them over the weekend? Should I do something for them? I leave at 1pm today, so I don't really want to start an assisted hatch since I wouldn't be able to see it through over the weekend.
Any suggestions??
