Looky what i just did!*Update pics post #55!*Ducks have Hatched!!*

[critter crazy]

I guess the next best thing would be if you have a video camera to record it for them....and us! LOL Yeah, they'll still be disappointed, but at least they'd get to see it happen.
And the waiting is the hardest part....so good luck with that. hee hee

I already have the camera on the ready, which takes Videos too. But I know darn well these guys are gonna hatch while i am sleeping or something! Just to make me mad! he he he! always works that way!

[Kalei]

So how do you know around what time they hatch? Do they have a certain time it takes to hatch? Or is it just a thing where you just can never know until they just do? lol, sorry for all the questions. I find this soooo interesting! I can't wait to see the little babies!!

[Taz_Zoee]

It's too bad you can't get like a security camera that would be on all the time. As for while you are sleeping, I might even go to the extreme of having a baby monitor so I could hear if there is any movement. But I'm silly like that.
You've got a lot of eggs there, I would hope they wouldn't ALL hatch during the night. That would be a bummer!! We had an incubator that only held 10 - 12 eggs.

[critter crazy]

So how do you know around what time they hatch? Do they have a certain time it takes to hatch? Or is it just a thing where you just can never know until they just do? lol, sorry for all the questions. I find this soooo interesting! I can't wait to see the little babies!!

Duck eggs take approximately 28 days to hatch, some duck breeds take up to 38 days. Chicken eggs take approximately 21 days to hatch. I will be candling the eggs next week to see if any are viable. At day 7 if you candle eggs, you should be able to tell if the eggs are fertile, and should have a spidery vein starting to appear. Some eggs are hard to do this with, the darker the egg, the harder to tell. Candling, is a simple task of shinning a bright light into the eggs.

here is a site, so you can see what i am talking about
Candling

[Kalei]

Duck eggs take approximately 28 days to hatch, some duck breeds take up to 38 days. Chicken eggs take approximately 21 days to hatch. I will be candling the eggs next week to see if any are viable. At day 7 if you candle eggs, you should be able to tell if the eggs are fertile, and should have a spidery vein starting to appear. Some eggs are hard to do this with, the darker the egg, the harder to tell. Candling, is a simple task of shinning a bright light into the eggs.

here is a site, so you can see what i am talking about
Candling

Hey! Thank you so much for showing me that site. I read it all on Candling and it is very neat and so interesting. So i'm guessing you will be candling them soon? Do eggs usually become bad if the are moved too much?

lol as you can tell I know nothing about eggs.

[king2005]

How exciting!

A kids father brought in chicken eggs for the week they were due when I was in grade 4. I remember them starting to hatch shortly after school was out (a bunch of us always stayed late to talk to our teacher & help her clean up & get ready for the next day)... All the chicks hatched at the same time.. it was soooo neat... We all called our parents to let them know we were gonna be extra extra late as the chicks were hatching & we wanted to watch!

I'll never forget it, just like I'll never forget working with Ducks Unlimited & getting to hold a duck & setting it free (they were being tagged & sexed)...

[chocolatepuppy]

How exciting! I hope you are there when they hatch! I'd be a nervous wreck waiting!

[Taz_Zoee]

How are the eggs doing?

[BC_MoM]

Haha, wow!
Can't wait to see all the pictures you'll have to take for us after they hatch!

[critter crazy]

Welll, we have about 16 days left. The other day I candled about 1/3 of the eggs(couldnt do them all, as Incubator would loose too much heat and humididty)out of the 1/3 I candled, all were Alive!! woohoo!!! That is awsome news! So there is a great chance that I could have all 40 eggs hatch! I am getting way too excited!! This week I am going to be getting my Large brooder box all set up.

[Taz_Zoee]

Awww, they'll be born right after my bday. LOL Those will be special little ducks and chicks.

[critter crazy]

Chickens are making some noise!!! They should hatch either today or tomarrow!! I am so excited!! I can hear little peeps!! woohoo!!!

[Argranade]

YAY!

I love seeing baby chicks, as does EVERYONE LOL,

At my auction you can buy boxes and boxes of them in the summer,

This year I plan on buying a small baby call duck, probably 2 of them.

[koxka]

Chickens are making some noise!!! They should hatch either today or tomarrow!! I am so excited!! I can hear little peeps!! woohoo!!!

I hope you catch them while hatching!!!

[king2005]

keep those camera batteries charged & the camera near by!!
YAY babies!!