Are my eggs dead?

[Ducklingsplease]

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[MGG]

No veins and I’m not quite sure if it was the egg or just me but a few small chirps

You heard chirping? That's not possible, it's not internally or externally pipped. The second one might be alive, but if there's no veins probably not. Where did you get these eggs?

 

[nchls school]

It is so different looking at pictures as compared to the real thing. At day 22 veins may be hard to see. Just going by what I can see in the picture, the first egg is alive and the second has died. The first picture shows a crisp, definite line.border between the air cell and the embryo-alive. The second egg looks to have a border that isn't crisp/distinct showing that the membrane is breaking down-dead. So candle your eggs again if need be and compare what I have typed to what you see. When the edge between air cell and duckling becomes faded and not distinct the duckling has quit.

 

[MGG]

It is so different looking at pictures as compared to the real thing. At day 22 veins may be hard to see. Just going by what I can see in the picture, the first egg is alive and the second has died. The first picture shows a crisp, definite line.border between the air cell and the embryo-alive. The second egg looks to have a border that isn't crisp/distinct showing that the membrane is breaking down-dead. So candle your eggs again if need be and compare what I have typed to what you see. When the edge between air cell and duckling becomes faded and not distinct the duckling has quit.

That first egg looks maybe 14 days though. It looks like a two week ir so quitter. It would be a lot fuller by now. I think it looks weird and "stringy" like my dead eggs. Movement should be easily visible if that one was alive, since there's so much space left. The second one looks like the only potential live one to me.

 

[Ducklingsplease]

You heard chirping? That's not possible, it's not internally or externally pipped. The second one might be alive, but if there's no veins probably not. Where did you get these eggs?

I got them off of eBay, the people I got them from were NPIP certified
i guess the chirps were just in my head

 

[MGG]

I got them off of eBay, the people I got them from were NPIP certified
i guess the chirps were just in my head

How many eggs did you get, and are any others viable?

 

[Quailophilic]

I have 2 mallard eggs and I don’t know if they are alive or dead the first one is this one: (it’s day 22)
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I don’t believe this one is alive but my husband says that it might just hatch late
the second one I believe is alive but it has a slight smell to it and I am unsure if that means it is dead:View attachment 2246739
please let me know if you know if they are still alive

Candle them in this way as you did in this picture and keep your hands still. If you see any kind of movement then they are alive.

 

[Ducklingsplease]

How many eggs did you get, and are any others viable?

I got 8, I gave 3 to a friend (2 were infertile) I have 1 healthy egg but I am starting to think that the egg that smelled is alive and it was just the smell of the egg

 

[ibarbidahl]

First is scrambled - dead. The second looks alive, but hard to tell without movement. I'd continue to incubate the second one.

 

[Ducklingsplease]

First is scrambled - dead. The second looks alive, but hard to tell without movement. I'd continue to incubate the second one.

Ok thank you