So have 11 chicks and 9 ducklings so far. It is day 22 for chicken eggs and 29 for duck. Well 1 bantam egg is still alive, no external pip, think internally pipped today and still has veins.
1 duck egg, long story very short, I thought was DIS. Started eggtopsy got top piece off of egg and...
And a chick won on who would hatch first. Lol
First duckling pipped Wed between 8-10:50 am. 2nd around 6pm
First chick pipped Thurs between 4-6:30pm
First chick hatched Fri at like 10:45am. Lol
This is so nerve wracking!!!!! 7 duck eggs pipped 4 chicks. First duck egg to pip is now around 45-48 hrs since pip!!!! I am soooo nervous/worried but waiting till 48 hrs from when I saw it to assist if needed.
There are now 4 duck eggs pipped. Nothing else going on with them.
And 2 chicken eggs pipped.
The first duck eggs pipped 37-40 hrs ago, first chicken egg 5-8 hrs ago. So now the race to see who hatches first. Lol
Ugh 5 more days..... Hoooo hummmm maybe I will get lucky like my friend that her ducklings pipped by day 25 and hatched on day 26, well most of them. Lol
Well imagine my surprise when I was getting ready to candle, cool and mist and thought I heard loud peeping. Start to candle.... Hear quiet peeping.... Get about halfway and pick up an egg and it peeps very loud at me.... Noticed it was pipped, externally!!! Quickly replace it, take out the egg...
So far the 14th egg is still in there but I removed the others
I also have 18 chicken eggs going with 15 hatching the same day as the ducklings and 3 about 4 days later.
Today is day 20. So about 8 more days till hatch day. I think I only have 13 still going. I think one quit between wed and Thurs. Thought there was no movement Wed and veins seemed light and not many. Then I finally saw movement so thought all was good. Looked yesterday and no movement and...
Well candled. I had 5 for sure that quit. Another one that I am pretty sure quit. Then one that looked like maybe it was starting to quit.
So far I saw 7 chicken eggs starting to develop
They are on day 10. So think I start cooking and misting them...... Lol. Will candle and see how they are doing.
Some look a couple days behind so do I cool and mist those or no??
@New duck mommy 2021 @SilverBirds