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I have been watching a mam duck with her eggs aince early June, and found her dead this weekend. I took the eggs in and have them in an incubator, but I cant tell if they are alive by candeling. I see a fairly large sized air sac, but when I put them in water they float but not at an angle (big side up), smell a little... fishy? And a few have what looks like a blood spot that can be smeared on the shell. Do they sound like they did not make it?
 
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All you can do is incubate them and see what happens. You can't do anything if the embryos died.
I wouldn't worry so much about the air cell size unless it is extremely far out of the normal parameters.
If they are more than a couple weeks developed, you floated them and they don't move after the water settles, they're likely dead.
I however keep them in the incubator if they don't leak or stink for a few days past due date.
 
Fishy smell is not good, could mean they died and are rotting. And trust me, you don't want an exploding rotten egg in your incubator :sick

The 'blood' spot is also not good, a good egg should not be oozing anything like that. It looks like the shell may also have some discoloration, which is also not a good sign.

When you candle, do you see active veins and a moving embryo?
 

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