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Sorry about all the typos:(

Well I posted in distress several days ago about my overdue indian runner duck eggs and unfortunately did not have a happy ending. I am in a mission to learn what went wrong. Would like to try again someday. In brief : 4 fertile eggs. Developing well until lock down. Moved tapered away. Waiting...

Well I gave a last ditch effort and raise the humidity and candled and floated one last time. And no nothing! So I decided to perform my first egg topsy, since I wanted to know what I did wrong. Peeled the shell at the air sac end and the membrane seemed pretty dry but I have nothing to compare...

Thanks so much for your reply:) I candled and floated last night. No pips in the air cell:( but when I float them 2 low float and move a tiny bit. This is why I think they are shrink wrapped. So my question at this point is can I assist if they haven't pipped the air sac?? And yes the one with...

Ok I'm on day 31 with these guys and I'm worried that I need to help them get out!! This is my first time doing this. Floated them again tonight. Have 2 sinkers ( which sink to about 1/2 inch from bottom ) And 2 floaters. One of which definately moved. No pips that I can see on any of them when...

First I counted the set day as day one so after recalculating today is actually day 31. I floated them again tonight. 2 sinkers( which sank 2 nights ago too but I swear had movement) And 2 floaters. One of which wiggled a tiny bit. I have this urged to help them out but know that's the wrong...

Oh and I just did the float test. 2 floated low and actually moved a little bit and 2 sank. Now the 2 that sank didn't sink like a rock. They seemed to have tad of buoyancy. And I swear they moved a tiny bit. Is this just wishful "viewing"?

My daughter and I acquired 4 Indian Runner eggs 30 days ago. This is our first experience with this. . I'm pretty handy so I made them a nice incubator and the conditions were good and I followed the protocol well except for the humidity being too high for quite a while before I realized it was...