The eggs are hatching!!!!!!!!!!

So today is day 26 for my duck eggs. At day 26 you either stop turning them or take out your automatic egg turner.
I grabbed a new egg carton and started gently removing the eggs and setting them in the carton. (The egg carton totally saved my nerves worrying about dropping or cracking a shell). So I've got the first 2 eggs in my hands and I hear squeaking. Nothing new in my house. I just figured it was 1 of the 7 pups in have in the whelping box behind me. Then it dawns on me that I just put the pups outside for a potty break. The squeaking is coming from the eggs!!!!!!!
Now it's only day 26 so my logical brain has it set that nothing should be happening until day 28, for another 2 days or more. Not!! I looked at the first 2 eggs that are still in my baffled hands and low and behold the ducklings are already pecking threw the shell! (They call it "pipping"). So as I'm holding an egg in each hand they are chirping at me and pecking threw the shell. Can you imagine the look on my face? haha.

My next step is to freak out that I have my Barred Rock chicks in the brooder for the ducklings. Thankfully the chicks were a month old and very ready to go outside so outside is exactly where they went. I panicked because I hadn't built their enclosed pasture yet but I was able to put together a temporary chicken pasture using one of my dog x-pens. I have a shelter in there for them and I also put it up against my house for their safety. I didn't work hard for a whole month to have them picked off the first day outside :)

Here is exactly what I found this morning.

My hands were shaking a little when I took these pictures so they're a little blurry :) Now all of the eggs are safely out of the turner and laying in my incubator. It'll take a little time to get back up to temp but the humidity is already raising for the hatch. 

I have no plans to go anywhere for a whole week so bring on the hatching!! I'll be taking pictures and updating my blog as the hatch progresses. I'm sooooo excited and nervous all at the same time. Now I know what my husband felt like when I was in labor last year :) Check back for updates!