Duck eggs keep dieing!!!

[autumn_g]

I am sorry to hear this, are any viable at this point? Is this one nest these girls are sitting on? @casportpony

No its 2 separate nests.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@WVduckchick

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am on my way to the vets with a duck hopefully reinforcements will be here.

 

[autumn_g]

No its 2 separate nests.

It seems like there may be 4 left under momma duck and 6 under Hope. At least those ones didnt have black spots with liquidy inside that stink of death

 

[WVduckchick]

Hmmm. Do they have a good bowl shaped in the nesting material? I find sometimes with chicken hens, the eggs that get liquidy inside are ones that they’ve rolled too much, or moved them around too often.
Does any other bird have access to the 2 broodies nests?

 

[autumn_g]

Hmmm. Do they have a good bowl shaped in the nesting material? I find sometimes with chicken hens, the eggs that get liquidy inside are ones that they’ve rolled too much, or moved them around too often.
Does any other bird have access to the 2 broodies nests?

Yes others do have access. It's in their communal pen. We have 2 large duck houses in there. Momma Duck has flattened out her nest several times and we would reshape it. This morning she kicked out another egg that's liquidy this morning. She started out with 16 eggs now she has 4. Hope. She is our blind girl she has had about 6 or 7 turn liquidy and die. Her nest is in the same duck house but there is a partition between them. When I candled the eggs 2 weeks ago is when I noticed the first rotten egg. Broke is open there was an embryo but it was clearly dead. After that I checked the eggs about every 5 days. Their were some that were questionable and I didn't want them to explode and bacteria to kill the rest of the eggs. For some reason these to ladies weren't getting rid of the bad ones. I am just really sad, we were very excited for these next hatches. I have 4 hens on clutches of eggs now. And the 2 that are supposed to be hatching their eggs this week are having all these problems. We really didnt want to intervene. We wanted to let them hatch and brood all of the ducklings but this is making me seriously consider buying an incubator.

 

[WVduckchick]

You could incubate some, then give the babies to her when they hatch. I doubt you’d be able to do that now, since she’s already been sitting so long, but maybe buy some day olds and slip them to her? Or wait till another goes broody and start incubating at the same time.
Wish I had better suggestions.