Duck eggs Alive or dead?

[Emily Colwell]

So an update on my eggs is I might have been a few days ahead of the actual date they should hatch Friday but I looked carefully and saw a tiny movement so it is alive but I do see a shadow am I supposed to see a shadow in the egg or is that a bad sign? I still see veins but not Much movement just a tiny bit of movement.

 

[sourland]

Patience is a virtue when incubating eggs.

 

[Emily Colwell]

Patience is a virtue when incubating eggs.

Im not incubating them tho my chickens are trying to hatch the duck eggs because I moved the eggs from the duck nest not knowing that they where fertile then it looked different then a un fertile egg so I canceled it and realized it was fertile so I put it back and the duck stopped laying on it once I moved it so I put it into the broody hen box and now the broody hen is laying on it

 

[sourland]

the broody hen is laying on it

and she knows what she is doing and should be protected from the flock and interference from anyone.

 

[Emily Colwell]

and she knows what she is doing and should be protected from the flock and interference from anyone.

She is in the box but one hen keeps going in with her which is okay cause its mostly there laying box but she is in a coop with 6 other hens