Found two eggs

[Baby_the_duckling]

I found this mother duck with a clutch of eggs but two of them were scooted out of the nest, I put them back and she did the same thing so I took them home candled them and I saw them moving and healthy no blood rings no nothing so they are in an incubator but one seems to worry me, egg #2 is smaller than a regular egg... is that okay?

 

[CascadiaRiver]

Did she have a lot of eggs in her nest? That could be why they were out of the nest, or maybe she senses that they're 'bad eggs'? What kind of duck is it, do you know? Is it just a wild mallard? I can imagine some variation in egg size is okay, it could be a different duck's eggs in that nest or maybe another breed of duck.

 

[Kiki]

Can you post a photo of the two eggs so we can see the size difference?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Are we talking about a wild duck?

 

[Baby_the_duckling]

Did she have a lot of eggs in her nest? That could be why they were out of the nest, or maybe she senses that they're 'bad eggs'? What kind of duck is it, do you know? Is it just a wild mallard? I can imagine some variation in egg size is okay, it could be a different duck's eggs in that nest or maybe another breed of duck.

She had 37 the last time I checked and I candled them they seemed fine, but she is a Muscovy duck.

 

[Baby_the_duckling]

Are we talking about a wild duck?

Yes

 

[Baby_the_duckling]

Can you post a photo of the two eggs so we can see the size difference?

Can you post a photo of the two eggs so we can see the size difference?

 

[Baby_the_duckling]

Can you post a photo of the two eggs so we can see the size difference?

It's not that big of a difference in the picture

 

[Kiki]

Have you candled these two to look for movement?

 

[lena_]

Have you candled these two to look for movement?

Don't intend to sound rude, but Op did state that he/she candled and saw veins and healthy movement.