Day 27 for call duck eggs when to HELP them ????

Lacrystol · Nov 9, 2014

Ok lets try this again. LOL, I think your sending me pictures of the same egg several times and it's getting quite confusing. LOL.. The deatchable eggs in pic one and two, I don't see anything but in pic seven I can see a very very sticky problem. the egg with the space in the middle is usually ends up being a sticky problem. one of the eggs look like there's blood inside?

elliottfam11 · Nov 9, 2014

The first two pics are the only pics of different eggs. The rest is pics of just that 1 egg, the one with a detached air sac that I've had in my incubator. I took different pics from all sides because even tho I can see the blood vessels they won't come thru on the pics. So I thought it would help seeing it from different angles. Sorry. But this egg does have blood vessels going thru it by that imperfection. What do u mean by a "sticky" situation?

Lacrystol · Nov 9, 2014

Lacrystol · Nov 9, 2014

I just sent you three videos, the first one is a duck that got really sticky, very similar to the one you have, needless to say he did not make it.

Video two and the last one is of my calls, they are on day 9, this is what you should be seeing right now. The last one is a very quick video I didn't realize it. LOL if you need a longer one just let me know..

Lacrystol · Nov 9, 2014

you want to look for a black blog sort of speaking moving around in one area.

The sticky eggs in the first video, you can tell because there's a lot of see threw space going on. When it's close to hatching time the inside the entire egg should be completely dark you shouldn't see anything...

elliottfam11 · Nov 9, 2014

Ok the 2nd and third video is almost like we saw it do yesterday. The little blackish looking thing was moving, it's a bit smaller on mine I think. Next time I candle I'll try videos and pics and see which shows up better. I'm not sure but the first one looks a little like the ones that the hens are sitting on.

elliottfam11 · Nov 9, 2014

The ones under my hens, yesterday, seemed like they were getting really dark, hard to see anything. Which is different than the one I have in here. The little black spot thingy just started, or I noticed, it was moving yesterday. It was really cool. My son said it looked like a worm.

Lacrystol · Nov 9, 2014

A worm? LOL that's funny, it's actually your baby moving around like crazy, it's easier to see them if you lay them down, do a FULL rotation, this gets them moving and then stop where ever your veins are and wait.. then all of a suddenly you'll see the black spot. LOL

One time, I had TWO black spots, I was like WHAT???? TWINS???? NO WAY. it's really strange because if you have all your eggs hatching out at the same time on the same day. Isn't that considered twins?? But yet we call twins, Twins if there's two in one egg. LOL HELLO....

elliottfam11 · Nov 9, 2014

Right, lol.

elliottfam11 · Nov 10, 2014

Ok. It's snowing out and got super cold today. My husband and daughter wore me down into going out and candling the ones that our silkies have in the coop. Now Saturday we had 5 growing. Then they fought yesterday and after checking tonight we are down to 4 from them. The fifth had a hairline crack and died I guess. I opened it up and of course the smell was awful but it was developed more than the others that got cracked. So my husband and daughter talked me in to taking them away from our girls, bringing them inside to the incubator, since they have broken 3 to date and we're half into this now. Don't want to take a chance of losing them. They just steal them from each other too much and aren't careful enough.
So I took pics and videos once we got inside of the 4 from outside. I'll post them below. So now I have 5 inside, one that's always been here with the detached air sac, and 4 that my silkies were doing for me.
Didn't take pics of the one that I've had inside this time but I'm happy to report it has doubled in size since Saturday and no longer looks like a little worm! It's awesome!
So here are videos and pics. I have a super small one that I can't believe has made it this far, it's barely bigger than a quarter.