duck egg incubation candling

[egg incubation]

hello i have been incubating khaki campbell eggs for 9 days in my homemade incubtor.the temerature varience is 1 to 2c.
i have candled it and i could see lots of veins and a small black dot moving around what is this?
thanks

 

[greymane]

The black dot is most likely the eye. Congrats!

 

[egg incubation]

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[weimarmama]

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from Alabama. Glad you joined us. Sounds like your hatch is developing nicely

Have you checked out Metzer's candling series:
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm?CustID=781243
Really good pictures of developing duck eggs.

 

[Kevin565]

 

[4-H chicken mom]

Hi and from Ohio. So glad you joined. That is your duckling.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan

 

[hennypenny99]

Can I ask a question about ducks candling too? I am incubating Muscovies. I am non day 17 and I can see two black dots in there on some of them. Could that be maybe the head and the body? I am trying to decide what this other thing I am seeing is too. You know there are the veins all over the egg well this almost looks like the veins are being pushed around in there. I can see these lines moving around in the egg. Could it be possible that I am seeing the webbed feet? It is really neat to watch but I try not to candle very often because I am afraid of stressing them.

 

[The Red Rooster]

 

[mumahen]

Hello everyone, i am new here on this site, i am in England. I have made an incubator from a cooler box made of polystrene, and i am trying to hatch some mixed duck eggs i got from ebay, temp is at 99, and humidity is about 65%, and so far pretty stable, Thing is i have never actually done this before, i always got hatchlings. Whats got me all flusterd is the candling. I made a candler out of a lamp and a cardboard box with a hole cut out of the top, My eggs have been incubating for 3 days. What should i see?