duck eggs dead?

[casportpony]

No there is one kind of close to me, it’s where I get pig feed but last I checked the poultry starter is pretty pricey. However, I will call and see, because their prices are always changing. Besides, I’d rather get the right stuff, even if I have to pay more .

What would be best is Purina Flock Raiser because it has the correct amount of niacin, other vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that ducks need. If you feed the chick starter you should supplement with b vitamins.
https://metzerfarms.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-my-ducklings-leg-problems-due-to.html

 

[floppysquirrel04]

Ok, I'll see what I can do, although I won't buy anything until they start to hatch. I can try to get the purina crumble if they do.

 

[casportpony]

Ok, I'll see what I can do, although I won't buy anything until they start to hatch. I can try to get the purina crumble if they do.

Since you have time, do find a Purina dealer and get the flock raiser, or if you don't want to buy a 50 pound bag, ask if they can order this for you:
https://www.purinamills.com/chicken-feed/products/detail/purina-duck-feed-pellets

 

[floppysquirrel04]

I know I was told not to open the incubator... But something stank so 2 more eggs were just removed. I dropped them in the can outside and while they did not explode, flies swarmed them almost immediatly and I could see gross blue spots all over and it was pretty overall gnarly and stinky. However, I can shine a flashlight thru the incubator to one of the eggs and see that it has gotten almost overnight a little triangle shape in the air sack, possibly a weenie beak nearly ready to poke thru? It also might be my imagination but It might have been moving ever so slightly, and overall it looks like a clean egg, not like the two I threw away with bluish purple spots all over... for a even just one to hatch. There is still one more egg but I'm still not sure either way about it, so I just left it. Again I might be imagining it but if make little clicking sounds like a mama would to her eggs sometimes I get the softest of answers... But who am I kidding its probably just the incubator noises...

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[PaulX]

I know I was told not to open the incubator... But something stank so 2 more eggs were just removed. I dropped them in the can outside and while they did not explode, flies swarmed them almost immediatly and I could see gross blue spots all over and it was pretty overall gnarly and stinky. However, I can shine a flashlight thru the incubator to one of the eggs and see that it has gotten almost overnight a little triangle shape in the air sack, possibly a weenie beak nearly ready to poke thru? It also might be my imagination but It might have been moving ever so slightly, and overall it looks like a clean egg, not like the two I threw away with bluish purple spots all over... for a even just one to hatch. There is still one more egg but I'm still not sure either way about it, so I just left it. Again I might be imagining it but if make little clicking sounds like a mama would to her eggs sometimes I get the softest of answers... But who am I kidding its probably just the incubator noises...

Your duckling has internal pipped!

 

[floppysquirrel04]

Your duckling has internal pipped!

Idk... I haven't heard anything yet this morning and I have yet to see the shadow of it moving in the air sack.

 

[floppysquirrel04]

I don't think it has come thru to the airsick just yet, because I can't see it if I shine a light thru the incubator, but I can hear some clicking in there! Unfortunately, Im leaving this morning with my friend for a few days to Lake Tahoe but my mom will be checking on the egg periodically. If anything happens she'll text me and I'll try to update you, but I might be silent until thursday.

 

[floppysquirrel04]

I got home and the eggs weren't hatched. We left them alone and did not open the incubator, but they still didn't pip. They stank bad when I got home, and the one I had thought I heard noise in was oozing a bloody liquid out of it, even tho there was no crack. So no, none of them made it, but to be honest I'm not too surprised. In a few weeks however, I would like to hatch some more out, and I think I will, and Ill make a new thread if I do. Thanks for all your help.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Be sure to clean and sterilize your incubator before you start again,very sorry.