Duck Egg incubation

[angelica21]

I have been incubating a duck egg I found on Easter Sunday. It appears to be doing well and I have been seeing quite a lot of movement when I have candled it. However, the pointy end has quite a lot of free space and I’m not sure if this is a problem? There is an air sac at the rounded end. So I’m not sure what the free space at the other end is all about? I’ve attached a drawing of what I mean - the yellow section is the free space (forgive my terrible artist’s impression of what I mean), and the purple line shows where most of the movement is occurring. The blood vessels all look good. Thank you for any help - this is my first time ever incubating an egg!

 

[Ratchnick]

Mine have that too.

 

[angelica21]

Mine have that too.

Ah that’s great to know! I was getting worried as I was looking up pictures and videos of other eggs and none seemed to look the same as the one I’ve got!

 

[angelica21]

Hi I have an update. The egg is on day 27 and I’m seeing this shadow on the air sac, there was quite a bit of movement in the last couple of days but now I’m not seeing much... should I be worried? Does this look normal?

 

[Ratchnick]

I think that is an internal pip your seeing. Normal.