Day 31 duck egg is it still alive?

[Jen16]

I’ve been incubating a duck egg. The egg is 31 days. Everything seemed to progress as it should until about day 27, I’ve seen no evidence of life since then. No movement, no chirping. I’ve been candling daily hoping to see any sign of movement or an internal pip. After much research, I realized yesterday the air cell is small so I lowered the humidity overnight. Is it too late to correct the air cell? Any other ways to tell if this duck is still alive?

I’ve tried my best to maintain temp at 99.5 and humidity at 55% throughout. I raised humidity to 65% at day 27. Lowered humidity to 30% at day 30 to see if I could get the air cell larger.

 

[nuthatched]

I think it died awhile ago, I'm sorry. I thought that first picture was a pipe but the clearish red color without veins doesn't look good.

 

[citymeetscountry]

It looks dead to me as well but I don’t have a lot of experience.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Duck eggs are supposed to incubate for 28 days. I think that egg is a quitter.

 

[BelovedBirds]

I’ve been incubating a duck egg. The egg is 31 days. Everything seemed to progress as it should until about day 27, I’ve seen no evidence of life since then. No movement, no chirping. I’ve been candling daily hoping to see any sign of movement or an internal pip. After much research, I realized yesterday the air cell is small so I lowered the humidity overnight. Is it too late to correct the air cell? Any other ways to tell if this duck is still alive?

I’ve tried my best to maintain temp at 99.5 and humidity at 55% throughout. I raised humidity to 65% at day 27. Lowered humidity to 30% at day 30 to see if I could get the air cell larger.

can you see any veins or movement in person? If there is nothing, I would say it has sadly passed away. You could water float it in warm water to be certain, watching carefully for movement

 

[Jen16]

Thank you everyone for your replies. Do you agree the air cell was too small?

 

[citymeetscountry]

Thank you everyone for your replies. Do you agree the air cell was too small?

Yes the air cell is too small, it should have drawn down significantly.