- Jun 3, 2008
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I found a duck egg in my neighbor's yard a while ago. I think it's a Pekin duck egg, and I decided to try to incubate it. The first 20 days or so seemed to go well, and I would candle the egg kind of frequently, but I'm not sure if that was a good thing to do because when I looked at the egg three days ago I didn't see any movement and I'm really worried that maybe I over candled it? It wasn't like multiple times a day, but I would look at the egg maybe once a day. I was just really excited to see the little thing moving around, and then one day I didn't see movement and I've been too nervous to candle it. I feel really terrible for it; I guess I'd just like to hear what to do at this point and if over candling could have killed Colin (I named it Colin). Its suppose to hatch on the 7th.
Thanks.
EDIT:
So it's day 27 and I read that the egg should hatch on the 28th day. I also read that 24-48 hours before the egg hatches I should be able to see the duck bill in the air sack, and I haven't seen that happen yet.
Should I be worried?
Thanks.
Thanks.
EDIT:
So it's day 27 and I read that the egg should hatch on the 28th day. I also read that 24-48 hours before the egg hatches I should be able to see the duck bill in the air sack, and I haven't seen that happen yet.
Should I be worried?
Thanks.
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