Duck Egg Help!

[RachealM]

I have two duck eggs that I found in a nest that was destroyed.
I think they are around day 22? and I've had a heat lamp on them for two weeks and keeping them misted and they have been doing well. I can see the babies and veins as of this morning but this afternoon the veins are now starting to "die" or become disconnected when I candeled them. The embryo is still moving but more slowly. Are they dying or is this normal?
I don't know if they are absorbing the veins or something else is happening. Please Help!

 

[SamuelMcF]

I would check the temperature. With a lamp, it is probably hotter than you want and not evenly warming them. The humidity is not going to be correct either since it is subject to the changes in the air. Even dead embryos can move around a little just from floating around in there so if they were abandoned for a long time it is unlikely that they will hatch.

 

[RachealM]

I would check the temperature. With a lamp, it is probably hotter than you want and not evenly warming them. The humidity is not going to be correct either since it is subject to the changes in the air. Even dead embryos can move around a little just from floating around in there so if they were abandoned for a long time it is unlikely that they will hatch.

I think they may have gotten too hot and now i feel like i'm watching them slowly die since the veins are shutting down. Wish I could have found an incubator

 

[SamuelMcF]

I think they may have gotten too hot and now i feel like i'm watching them slowly die since the veins are shutting down. Wish I could have found an incubator

Don't be too hard on yourself though. This happens and hatching wild eggs probably is not a good idea anyway.

 

[RachealM]

Don't be too hard on yourself though. This happens and hatching wild eggs probably is not a good idea anyway.

Here's what it looks like now with candling

 

[TheChicken-nator]

That looks like it's dead because from my experience with my girls you can't really save the baby when they stop sitting on them, it's really hard and the humidity needs to be really high.