Hatching Duck eggs

[poultryfan73]

My eggs are white too...i hope that this isnt a bad sign

....what are you using to candle your eggs?Im using just a plain old flashlight.

 

[gofasterstripe]

a small LED falsh light from Lowes..cost me 2 or 3 bucks tops.

 

[critterranch]

a small 3 led flashlight from dollar general for 3.00 it runs on 2 AAs. i use in pitch dark room and cup my hand to form to egg and candle egg on side. i hand turn my eggs and incubate on their side.

 

[poultryfan73]

Well my eggs are halfway through their incubation! It seems like they are never going to hatch!

 

[poultryfan73]

hada power outage lost night...not good!

 

[critterranch]

how long? dont open. i plug my incubator into my computer cpu battery back up.

 

[critterranch]

i have a still air little giant it only 40 watts so it runs quite a while. hope everything turn out good

 

[poultryfan73]

It was out all night

my hope just rapidly went down

 

[poultryfan73]

well i candled the eggs last night..i saw some veins so that has to be a good sign! Only 11 more days..

 

[poultryfan73]

1 week left! I candled them and i can see is black so hopefully that is good??