Hatching/Incubation Help

[Miss Lydia]

What you need to do is go on BYC it's working now and start a conversation with Ravyn Fallen or WVduckchick both of them are experienced with hatching. I would die if I steered you wrong.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

How long do I wait if it makes no progress? Just so I know incase it needs help

I've made the safe hole I done that this morning. It peeped to say thankyou I meant if it doesn't make progress from that do I wait another two days?

No it's still absorbing from what I can see. Once it starts on the shell I'll feel less worried but what do I do if it doesn't work on the shell? Never done this before sorry all the ducks I've incubated seem to die before now

generally speaking everything with ducks is dragged out , lol
internal pip to external is about 24 hours
external pip to zip can be 24-40 hours

what kind of duck??
is it yawning?

 

[Miss Lydia]

What you need to do is go on BYC it's working now and start a conversation with Ravyn Fallen or WVduckchick both of them are experienced with hatching. I would die if I steered you wrong.

generally speaking everything with ducks is dragged out , lol
internal pip to external is about 24 hours
external pip to zip can be 24-40 hours

what kind of duck??
is it yawning?

Bless you!!Runners I believe

 

[newchickmama91]

generally speaking everything with ducks is dragged out , lol
internal pip to external is about 24 hours
external pip to zip can be 24-40 hours

what kind of duck??
is it yawning?

That's what I thought lol. Don't want to leave it to long though! Well it internally pipped two days ago so I made a safety hole this morning and it seems pretty active. Yes it's yawning so it hasn't finished yet do you think it'll be able to get out alone or would I need to assist abit?

 

[newchickmama91]

It will be 2 days tomorrow for the others so if there's no progress I'll make a safety hole for them too. These are shipped so I'm expecting problems!

 

[AngieNPeeps]

It will be 2 days tomorrow for the others so if there's no progress I'll make a safety hole for them too. These are shipped so I'm expecting problems!

Most of my eggs are shipped. Wonky air cells, but not always a big issue.

Talk to the duck folks. I do intervene. But, I'd be cautious on advancing the process (especially when others say it takes this long ).

Mine are chicks, but normally, I wouldn't expect them to take this long (but never hatched these eggs ). At exactly Day 20, I found internal pips in all these eggs, except a couple that were pushing on the air cell. Still, it was 12 hours before the very first external pip. It was another 12 before the first hatch, and another 5 external pips. I came home to 7 chicks in the bator today and 2 struggling to get out of their shells. One had yellow membrane and the other was mid-push and dried there (looked like a drop in humidity, but hygrometer looked fine). Anyway, I slowly addressed each chick. It is now day 22 and the last egg just pipped. Follow the experienced duck hatchers...

It's not worth it to see one come out with a yolk sac.

 

[newchickmama91]

Most of my eggs are shipped. Wonky air cells, but not always a big issue.

Talk to the duck folks. I do intervene. But, I'd be cautious on advancing the process (especially when others say it takes this long ).

Mine are chicks, but normally, I wouldn't expect them to take this long (but never hatched these eggs ). At exactly Day 20, I found internal pips in all these eggs, except a couple that were pushing on the air cell. Still, it was 12 hours before the very first external pip. It was another 12 before the first hatch, and another 5 external pips. I came home to 7 chicks in the bator today and 2 struggling to get out of their shells. One had yellow membrane and the other was mid-push and dried there (looked like a drop in humidity, but hygrometer looked fine). Anyway, I slowly addressed each chick. It is now day 22 and the last egg just pipped. Follow the experienced duck hatchers...

It's not worth it to see one come out with a yolk sac.

Ducks seem to take the car ride worse or in my experience they have. I won't be interfering to much unless it does need help that's why I waited 48 hours after the first internal pip to make a pin sized safety hole. Now I'll wait longer to see if there's any progress if not I'll open the hole a little bigger to see the veins situation.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

That's what I thought lol. Don't want to leave it to long though! Well it internally pipped two days ago so I made a safety hole this morning and it seems pretty active. Yes it's yawning so it hasn't finished yet do you think it'll be able to get out alone or would I need to assist abit?

Ducks seem to take the car ride worse or in my experience they have. I won't be interfering to much unless it does need help that's why I waited 48 hours after the first internal pip to make a pin sized safety hole. Now I'll wait longer to see if there's any progress if not I'll open the hole a little bigger to see the veins situation.

update??

 

[AngieNPeeps]

Did we lose her to BYC?

 

[Kiki]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hands-on-hatching-and-help.1081034/page-1022#post-18471641