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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    Update for anyone interested. My remaining duck was still kicking yesterday. It looked like it had internally pipped maybe 2 days ago and was struggling to externally pip so I very carefully put a hole in the air cell. Today I could smell it was bad. I opened and what I thought was a beak was...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    I am 90% sure the mom was the domestic duck I found floating in the river. I am certain that the mom who laid the eggs was domestic because I saw her. I don’t think there are any Muscovy ducks here, but even if there were, wouldn’t that duck look like other Muscovy ducklings? Grey or black...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    One more thing before I have to go be a parent 😅 I am counting day 1 as 24 hours after I incubated the eggs, not from when momma duck laid them. So they could be even older for all I know.
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    That 3rd link you posted is very relevant to what I was thinking. I’m sure it happens, these very late hatches, but most people give up. If I had 40 eggs in a very expensive incubator and some hadn’t hatched at day 30+ the cost benefit analysis would go like this: do I give these remaining eggs...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    A little background. I live on an island and my backyard is the Detroit river. Momma duck laid her eggs in our driveway bushes (picture a circular driveway with bushes and trees in the middle). One day, maybe 4 days later, I noticed 2 of the 8 eggs were broken. I picked up the broken shells...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    Thank you for the links. It is so strange. This one was developing faster than the other initially, but then just seemed to stall out. No movement, yet was still alive, apparently. I barely slept last night because the image of that duck doing its silent quack and then dying kept popping into my...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    Hello. No. I just have a cheapie incubator off of Amazon. No humidity or anything. I have been doing the humidity on my own, which I know isn’t the best. Do you have any idea just how delayed ducks can be? For example, what is the record for longest incubation? My other one is still alive and...
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    Duck still alive at 33 days, not muscovy

    I just wanted to make a post because everything I read here said that what I just experienced was impossible. I had duck eggs that are without a doubt that day 33 and have not hatched. I knew one was alive the other I had not seen move in two days. I knew they weren’t Muscovy ducks. Every single...
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