Help! Mama duck was eaten, now trying to save 2 eggs

[ampho]

Well if it survives you can call it Lucky! Hope all your effort pays off! Keep us posted!

 

[Lacrystol]

UPDATE: Well under my broody hen was not the best place. She ended up cracking the side of the egg that had a duckling in it for sure and she left the nest for probably half the day to sit on different eggs so all the eggs she had been sitting on were cold. So I brought the broke egg to the house because I could see no movement in it and I took off one of the pieces of the shell where it was smashed and saw that it is still alive. So now the poor thing is in my incubator with a cracked shell with a damp paper towel over the small hole (which just dries out). If this duckling lives through all this it is going to be a miracle duck! Do ducks in egg generally take up the whole eggs like chickens do? When you candle it you can see the normal air pocket and then there is a space down the whole side of the egg on the side that got cracked. The air space goes down about a quarter of the way if your looking at the egg on it's side, but I think the duckling takes up more space than that because he seems to be up against the hole where it's cracked. The trick will be to know when it's ready to come out because it may need help at this point because I'm not sure it will be able to maneuver in the shell. The membranes still seem to be full of veins so it's not ready yet. It survived over night at least so we'll see.

OK try this, get rid of the paper towel get a cotton ball, I wet mine, then tape the cotton ball to the shell, covering the hole. I have one RIGHT now in my bator, the hole is a size of a quarter, it's covered up with the cotton ball, it's been two days and the little guy has already made progress..

 

[Lacrystol]

With ducks the air cell takes a dip, this is just about three days before hatching time. the dip means, the air cell goes down to one side. Then when they are ready, you will see there beaks go upwards towards the air cell.