Duck egg candling help!!

[00talyssa]

Hi! This is the first time my duck has laid eggs and I’m having a terrible time candling them. I inserted a picture from 8 days ago (I haven’t been able to candle everyday unfortunately) where an embryo and veins were clearly visible. The other photos are from today and I can’t really tell what’s going on. I can’t tell if there was an early death or if it’s growing. I can see the embryo inside and it moves around when I move the egg but I don’t see any veins like before

 

[BabyGotQuack]

The only one that looks alive to me is the egg that is lightest in color with veins. How many days old were the eggs when you took the pics and have you candled since?

 

[BabyGotQuack]

Hi! This is the first time my duck has laid eggs and I’m having a terrible time candling them. I inserted a picture from 8 days ago (I haven’t been able to candle everyday unfortunately) where an embryo and veins were clearly visible. The other photos are from today and I can’t really tell what’s going on. I can’t tell if there was an early death or if it’s growing. I can see the embryo inside and it moves around when I move the egg but I don’t see any veins like before

I misread, I’m sorry. Ok now that I understand that one is from 8 days ago and the rest today right? If that light one with veins is 8 days ago and the rest from today I’m sorry but to me they look like they aren’t alive

 

[Pierre duck drake]

The second egg looks alive, the rest. Dead.

 

[Pierre duck drake]

You can tell by the red ring that means they are dead.

 

[Weeg]

To me it looks like a quitter. Though I usually don't pull any eggs until day 12 at least.

 

[00talyssa]

Yes the 3 other photos are from today. We noticed she started sitting on the eggs around January 4th. I recently moved out of my parents house and only get to come home occasionally so I wasn’t able to candle the eggs until the 11th that’s when the light colored picture was taken. I came back today and took the rest of those photos. She laid 6 eggs and that was the only one that showed any fertilization/growth. The duck that laid these is a Muscovy and the only drake we have is a Rouen. I have heard it’s very hard for eggs crossed between those two breeds to become fertilized and hatch properly? Would it be beneficial to incubate the eggs instead of letting the mother sit on them because of that?

 

[BabyGotQuack]

Yes the 3 other photos are from today. We noticed she started sitting on the eggs around January 4th. I recently moved out of my parents house and only get to come home occasionally so I wasn’t able to candle the eggs until the 11th that’s when the light colored picture was taken. I came back today and took the rest of those photos. She laid 6 eggs and that was the only one that showed any fertilization/growth. The duck that laid these is a Muscovy and the only drake we have is a Rouen. I have heard it’s very hard for eggs crossed between those two breeds to become fertilized and hatch properly? Would it be beneficial to incubate the eggs instead of letting the mother sit on them because of that?

I’m not really sure about the Rouen/Muscovy being difficult but last summer I let my pekin try 3 times in a row to sit on eggs and she always stopped a week to 2 in so I finally just bought some TSC ducklings. But you could try incubating, I’ve done that also and had success every time!

 

[Red Barron]

I’m not really sure about the Rouen/Muscovy being difficult but last summer I let my pekin try 3 times in a row to sit on eggs and she always stopped a week to 2 in so I finally just bought some TSC ducklings. But you could try incubating, I’ve done that also and had success every time!

 

[Red Barron]

Oh good. They directed me back here! Hello.
Right, Proper Muscovies, as far as I understand came originally from S.America. Their eggs take 5 weeks (35 days) to hatch. Most European ( and thus USA) ducks come from Mallard/Pintail etc 28-30 days hatch. (aylesbury, khaki campbell)....
Different genetic pool!

They will mate and if you can get the eggs to hatch you get big birds, but they tend to be sterile. Same as a mule (or Hinny). You get the odd one who is fertile, but the F2 generation? Who knows?

One of the things that I have found is that although a Muscovy LOVES all babies, even v.small kittens and rats! LOL

She does not speak the same language, or eat the same food. Muscovies are insectivores! mallard derived, dabble for food., It is almost as bad as giving quackie duck babies to a hen.

So, my advice is get your quackie duck (boy the Rouen) some decent sized girls who QUACK. Get you LADIES a male who sounds like a steam train and looks like a falt bed trailer and DO NOT BE SUPRISED when they FLY!

All the best