So I've got a new batch of eggs, started with 10 but it's been a week so I've removed the infertile eggs (3) so now I have 7 eggs left. 2 of them appear to have small black dots where the heart should be. People have told me that sometimes it's the eye but I'm not sure and would like to know for...
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Thank you, I have a new incubator now and my duck is still laying so I've grabbed a couple more and will see how this goes again. I hope it's more successful!
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air cell did move down and everything was normal but today everything changed and the duck wasn't moving and the air cell had weird light shadows and the egg has turned yellow so I'm 99% sure the duckling has died now. We've given up and birth was unlikely anyway but now that the egg is...
Update: there is a small thin yellow line on the outside of the egg around the air sac but now all the way around.
I candled the egg and saw only the top broad end of the egg was visible and the rest was dark, but there was a small circular part that looked like super thick blood vessels but...
So long story short I have 1 egg in an incubator (cross AND half bred, parents are Indian runner cross possibly Muscovy? Not sure) and the development of everything was perfect minus the air sac that was slightly too small but not small enough to cause major health issues.
The duckling was due...