HELP! Is this duckling dead?

[Miss Lydia]

Sure sounds like it @PearlTheDuck so sorry.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Ya. That sounds like a dead egg

 

[PearlTheDuck]

Sure sounds like it @PearlTheDuck so sorry.

Dang I’ve been trying to hatch for months and this one got so far, I was so hopeful. It’s really hot and humid here and the weather is somewhat up and down, one day it’s raining and 82° and the next it’s 102°, can that have an effect on the eggs? I just want to know what caused them to all die. I’m getting an incubator soon so I hope I’ll have better luck with that.

 

[Miss Lydia]

These 30 eggs were under a duck? could have been she had too many trying to keep warm so some got cooled off too much then she'd rotate which would mean others would get cooled off extreme differences in temps. next time she goes broody start marking the eggs use 1 to what ever or date something like that so when she starts brooding you can take out all the oldest eggs and leave her with 8-10 that she can cover good. Other things could have played a part in them dying but having that many eggs I'd say was the cincher.

 

[PearlTheDuck]

These 30 eggs were under a duck? could have been she had too many trying to keep warm so some got cooled off too much then she'd rotate which would mean others would get cooled off extreme differences in temps. next time she goes broody start marking the eggs use 1 to what ever or date something like that so when she starts brooding you can take out all the oldest eggs and leave her with 8-10 that she can cover good. Other things could have played a part in them dying but having that many eggs I'd say was the cincher.

No, over a period of 3 months she sat on 30, she was on 5-8 eggs at a time

 

[Miss Lydia]

Who is your drake and which female is this?
Oh okay well that helps explain I was thinking she had a whopping 30 eggs she was sitting on. And some of the eggs were fertile and close to hatching?

 

[PearlTheDuck]

Who is your drake and which female is this?
Oh okay well that helps explain I was thinking she had a whopping 30 eggs she was sitting on. And some of the eggs were fertile and close to hatching?

Most of them got around to day 10 and then just died, others would make it to day 18 and die. They were all fertile. This one got the furthest out of all 30. My Magpie duck Millie is the one sitting on them but i just picked all the eggs when they were layed, they’re not just hers. The Drake is my Blue Swedish Wyatt, I had two other drakes in there (a blue swedish and khaki campbell) but they’re not in there now because Pearl was being over mated

 

[PearlTheDuck]

Not the best picture but this is the dead egg, you can see the body and then liquid when I shine the flashlight at the top of the egg it lights up red? It’s completely dark where the air cell was

 

[Lil Drake40]

@Pyxis @WVduckchick can better give you an idea on what may have gone wrong they hatch a lot more than any of the ones I have seen here on the duck forum I’m sure there are others too I just don’t know them from posting

 

[PearlTheDuck]

I decided to crack open the dead egg, is there anything in this picture that can shows what happened? There was a little bit of liquid coming out when peeling off the shell. I’m so devastated, it was a beautiful Magpie baby from my duck Maggie, it has the same bill markings as her