Baby Ducks

It's hatch day for the ducks! 

Yesterday I was in the laundry room throwing a load in the washer when I heard a little crack. One of the eggs had pipped! Shortly after that I heard another pip. It's hard to see the eggs in the back, but by the end of the day, at least five eggs had pipped. They didn't do much overnight/into the morning, but by early afternoon, the first had broken out...

I went downstairs to check on them at lunchtime, saw a couple eggs had made progress, went back upstairs, and when I came back down a couple minutes later there was a baby duck. 

Note the penciled X on the shell. Our first duckling was one of the eggs that had been refrigerated prior to hatching. 

Next to it is an egg with a green line. That indicates that it was put into the incubator cold straight from the fridge instead of allowed to get to room temperature like the others.