One thing that frequently happens is one or two eggs will pip, and then not progress for many hours, or a full day.
Meanwhile, other ducklings may pip, zip, and hatch - leading the person nervously watching the incubator to feel that surely something must be wrong with that first egg, since it hasn't yet hatched.
It's not at all uncommon for the first egg to pip not to be the first egg to hatch. I would not let that be a reason to intervene. Just like with human birth, some eggs hatch more quickly than others, and that's ok. The common way for an egg to hatch, is for a pip to appear somewhere near the widest part of the "fat end" of the egg. The duckling will then zip, making a jagged crack in a mostly-direct circumference around that widest part of the egg. Sometimes the pip happens on the "wrong" end of the egg - the narrow end.
This doesn't necessarily mean this duckling will need help hatching. While it is statistically more likely to need assistance than a duckling that's pipped on the fat end, if your incubation has gone well and other ducklings are hatching without a problem, is it still most likely that this duckling will hatch just fine on its own, too.
I'm going to go ahead and say this again, because unfortunately, this is one of the most prevalent myths about hatching ducklings, and it has led to many ducklings being lost because of getting helped prematurely by well-meaning people who have received bad advice.
Pipping on the wrong end does not automatically mean that your duckling needs help hatching. It most likely will hatch just fine without any assistance. You should keep a close eye on an egg that's pipped the narrow end, and be ready to help if it hasn't hatched after 36 hours, or seems to be growing weaker after trying to zip on its own Usually, I'd try to give it at least 12 hours from when zipping begins before considering helping.
You may find that after several hours of nothing happening, a second pip appears at the fat end of the egg, and the duckling zips and is out before you know it! When people come to me for hatching help, I always ask them three questions, to make sure their ducklings have the best chance for hatching on their own. Humidity, temperature, and adequate oxygen are three things you can help control, to make sure your ducklings have their best chance.
There is a lot of conflicting advice in duck-keeping circles, and you may hear some very vocal opinions on forums and especially in Facebook groups, insisting that very high humidity levels are necessary for hatching duck eggs. In my experience, I have seen more people lose ducklings in the hatching stage because of high humidity, rather than low humidity. There is a lot of fear about "shrink wrapping," and it's true that you should be conscientious about keeping the incubator lid closed, and keeping a steady humidity that's a little higher than rest of the incubation period.
If it's so humid in your incubator that it's raining, it's too wet in there. If your chicks are hatching with a lot of goop on their feathers, and if they're drying all hard and crusty rather than poofy and fluffy - the hatching humidity is too high. If you're trying to figure out why a duckling never hatched, even though it pipped, and if you look and see that the bill seems encased in "goo" - I would encourage you to try a lower hatching humidity next time. Each time a duckling hatches, that humidity level will spike - that's normal.
The owner of a wonderful small hatchery once told me "you know a real hatchaholic, if they've had those vent plugs out of their incubator so long they've lost them for good. While this is definitely something to pay attention to with chicks, I've found it to be even more vital with ducklings. The hatching process for ducks is a longer marathon than for chicken chicks.
Ducklings expend a huge amount of energy when hatching, and especially if you have a very full incubator, it's important to make sure there's adequate ventilation in there.
If you've closed every vent in an effort to stabilize humidity, I would suggest opening the vents, and then doing whatever else necessary to stabilize humidity at your target level. If that means adding some damp sponges inside the incubator, so that you can have the vents open, I would do that. It's a tangible step you can take to help provide your ducklings with the optimum environment for hatching on their own without assistance.
The usual temperature for incubating ducklings is I have found that slightly lowering this temperature by one degree during hatch time helps slightly improve my hatches. Put the shell in the tweezer and pinch off small pieces. Hope the rest of their growing time goes well So excited. Poor baby tried and tried to get out of shell. He pipped a hole, and I could see his poor little beak quivering. I could hear it crying in shell.
After about 16 or 17 hours it was free! The key to this is keeping the membrane moist. Do not drown baby. If you see blood, stop. After cracking around some or all of the egg, wrap a warm, very wet piece of washcloth around the cracked parts of the egg. Do not cover the beak. Put back in incubator. The beak should be on its side or facing up. When to Remove Babies from Incubator Remove chicks, poults or ducklings from the incubator once a day.
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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Sort by date Sort by reaction score. Aug 3, 50 2 43 Jersey Shore. Hi all- My newest duckling made an external pip on day On day 29 i helped it by adding some warm water to the shell so it wouldnt dry out It has made no real progress since then, and now on day 30, it is cheeping really loudly but ha not rotated in the egg , so i took the top of the shell off to expose it and there is membrane all around the chick.
The membrane is white, but when i add a drop of warm water it turns translucent. It is day 30 and it looks like it still hasent absorbed the yolk and blood or at least the blood. It is bleeding a tiny bit but not gushing but i am scared that if i do anything else it will bleed to death! I just don't want to break any veins Oct 3, , , 1, Mountains of Western N.
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