Hatching duck eggs. Help!

[SilverBirds]

Did you candle at all during incubation? It's very important to keep track of the eggs development so that you can catch quitters/yolkers before the explode.

Tip for the future: If an egg ever smells or is leaking throw it out immediately.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Welcome to the coop! I use the Forums and Articles tabs at the top of the page to do research. You can get lost for hours. It's nice to know you are minutes away from getting help with questions and emergencies! Keep us posted!

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC, Olivia, & good luck with your hatch!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! Good luck with you're hatch.

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[N F C]

Hello Olivia, best of luck with your hatch!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC! Good luck with your hatch!

 

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC! good luck with your hatch.

 

[Blue Raptor]

My Pekin duck eggs have been in the incubator for 28 days; one smells TERRIBLE and has orange-ish goop coming out of it. If I walk into the room they are in, it smells so bad I want to vomit. When the defected egg was turned, it cracked. I have no idea what to do. Should I remove it from the incubator? None of the other eggs have this problem, and I don't want it to spread to the other eggs.

Welcome to BYC!!

 

[SmiYa0126]

The egg was removed but while being put in a ziplock bag, spewed out green liquid.

Definitely rotten
I had an egg with a thin shell that I cracked into a pan for breakfast, it was bright green and smelled so badly I almost threw up. I should have known something was wrong with it because it was really light. The worst experience though was when I was checking eggs under a broody and the rotten egg broke all over my hand. I was dry heaving so much my throat hurt

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us