Help! New, stressed duck Mama!!

[Orca5094]

Aww, so no movement or response from that guy? So sorry. :/

I've actually never done the float test, just regular candling. Can you see any movement at all in the others? Look at the edge of the dark mass inside the egg, you should be able to see tiny movements if they are alive in there. Are you candling in a very dark room with a strong flashlight? That helps alot to be able to see what's going on, and the light usually wakes them up and they tend to "dance" a little in there. Do you still see any red blood vessels at all? Are you able to post pictures of the eggs during candling? I know that can be tricky, but it might help us tell what's going on. Can you also post a pic of them just sitting in the incubator so I can see the discolored one? That usually means it has died and is rotting in there. You can also do a quick sniff test of the one that is getting darker. Does it smell bad?

 

[bydhatch]

This is from candling one of my others. It was mentioned by another user that they could be drawing back previous to hatch and to keep my leftover three, even though I have not seen much change in them the last few days.
The quick hatcher is gone and one of my eggs, the majorly discolored one, has what looks to be blood ring with no movement. After taking these out, my incubator has returned to the normal duck smell (tehe!), they did float during a brief test, and vessels are not obvious to me. Still hopeful I might get one little ducky out of this.

 

[Orca5094]

Ok, well good luck! Hard to tell anything for sure from the pic, but it's always good to leave them in awhile longer and see what happens.

Sometimes they can surprise you, even if they do weird things. I had one last year that was behind all the others the entire incubation, never saw the egg move or anything during lockdown while the others hatched out. I thought it had died, but left it in just in case. Then I saw a little pip! She hatched 5 days after the first duckling was out, totally healthy and she just turned a year old last month. Sweet duck.

 

[bydhatch]

Ok, well good luck! Hard to tell anything for sure from the pic, but it's always good to leave them in awhile longer and see what happens.

Sometimes they can surprise you, even if they do weird things. I had one last year that was behind all the others the entire incubation, never saw the egg move or anything during lockdown while the others hatched out. I thought it had died, but left it in just in case. Then I saw a little pip! She hatched 5 days after the first duckling was out, totally healthy and she just turned a year old last month. Sweet duck.

Awww!! That's amazing! I love stories like that! Thanks for your help!

 

[Orca5094]

Here she is, her name is Ginger:



No problem, will keep my fingers crossed for you!