Egg help.

[Ducklings100]

Hi, all. So I was just candling my eggs tonight(I only have two left) and one of the eggs that looked perfectly healthy yesterday looks dead. They have just reached the halfway point in incubation, but the one embryo just has stopped moving and has no veins. I'm so confused by this because it was totally fine last night. Does anyone have any idea how this could have happened?

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Hi, all. So I was just candling my eggs tonight(I only have two left) and one of the eggs that looked perfectly healthy yesterday looks dead. They have just reached the halfway point in incubation, but the one embryo just has stopped moving and has no veins. I'm so confused by this because it was totally fine last night. Does anyone have any idea how this could have happened?

I can’t say why it happened as sometimes it just does
Can you post pictures ? Usually veins going away is a bad sign unfortunately

 

[Ducklings100]

 

[Ducklings100]

This is the only picture I could get at the moment. But it has no movement at all yet it was moving a ton last night.

 

[Purelychicks]

This is the only picture I could get at the moment. But it has no movement at all yet it was moving a ton last night.

It could be resting to continue forming.. maybe you could check it again in a few days?

 

[Ducklings100]

I hope so. The real problem is that I can't see veins anymore but I guess I could try to leave it in there a little longer.

 

[Purelychicks]

I hope so. The real problem is that I can't see veins anymore but I guess I could try to leave it in there a little longer.

I incubated eggs early November and i candled them before I had to put them in lockdown. There was a fully developed chick that had a slight blood ring. (Means they’re dead.) and he came back to life somehow . Anyways, this is him now.

 

[Ducklings100]

I incubated eggs early November and i candled them before I had to put them in lockdown. There was a fully developed chick that had a slight blood ring. (Means they’re dead.) and he came back to life somehow . Anyways, this is him now.

Aw, that's so cool. I really hope that will happen to mine too!

 

[nuthatched]

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Is your incubator calibrated? This egg is not 2 weeks ish developed. What breed of duck? It honestly looks like it died a while ago, I'm sorry.

 

[Ducklings100]

Is your incubator calibrated? This egg is not 2 weeks ish developed. What breed of duck? It honestly looks like it died a while ago, I'm sorry.

It would have been two weeks tomorrow. I actually took a video of it moving around last night and it looked perfectly healthy. It is a mallard duck egg.