29 day duck eggs, live, no pips or signs of hatching.

[GottaHatchEmAll]

Hello!

This is my first time ever hatching duck eggs. I have two pekin eggs in the incubator that are currently at day 29. I candled them yesterday, and they were both alive. But they aren't pipping at all. I read that they can hatch as late as day 32, but is it normal for my eggs to be alive but not pipping at day 29? We did have a power outage this morning, but it was an extremely brief one (5mins at most).

Are my eggs alright?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

What did you use for a thermometer?

 

[SnackMeat]

When you candle do you see veins? I would make a small air hole if the veins are very small or you cannot see them. If the veins are sizeable and many then yeah they probably were incubated at a lower temp and slower to mature. Hopefully that doesn't cause an issue.

You can look up the assisted hatch write up on this forum. Some people don't want to assist and that's fine. But sometimes it's just bad placement in the shell, or the eggshell was too thick rather than there being anything wrong with the chick.

 

[GottaHatchEmAll]

What did you use for a thermometer?

My incubator thermometer

 

[GottaHatchEmAll]

When you candle do you see veins? I would make a small air hole if the veins are very small or you cannot see them. If the veins are sizeable and many then yeah they probably were incubated at a lower temp and slower to mature. Hopefully that doesn't cause an issue.

You can look up the assisted hatch write up on this forum. Some people don't want to assist and that's fine. But sometimes it's just bad placement in the shell, or the eggshell was too thick rather than there being anything wrong with the chick.

The veins are sizeable and many. I'm not assisting because I don't want to injure the ducklings, and I only intervene in a worst-case scenario, like what happened with a baby chick of mine, when the chick pipped but wasn't able to break the egg the rest of the way.

 

[GottaHatchEmAll]

Last night, I lowered the temp slightly so that they would be more inclined to hatch.

Btw, I got the eggs from an Asian market a couple of hours away! I picked the two freshest eggs from a carton of them.