Help! Raccoons got my ducks, can I still hatch her eggs?

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I have raised my ducks and lastnight they killed them all. My one girl was sitting on a nest of about 28 eggs in total. Can I still save them? I am picking up an incubator tonight. It was 88 outside today so im hoping by the time I get home I can pop them in there and they will be okay. Anyone have luck with this? Tips and tricks you want to share? I have been reading some of the other posts like this but I just thought I'd try to start my own thread. Share your secrets with me. I really want to save her little babies. I spent two years loving on them and acclomating them so they were friendly and now I have to start all over.
 
An egg that is half-way incubated, can cool completely for several hours and still be fine.

A couple of years ago, a friend told me that her duck had left the nest sometimes in the night. She slept in, so at about 11:00 am she noticed the eggs were stone cold. She put them (gently) in the trash can. She called me about 2:00 pm and told me about it. I asked her to bring me the eggs, because I had read that they might still be viable.

I started up my incubator. At this age eggs normally contain embryos who swim around. These eggs contained cold, frozen embryos who showed no movement. They seemed clearly dead. Still, I placed them in the incubator. Two hours later.... the embryos were swimming around! And two weeks later, they hatched and were healthy.

So, yes, put them in the incubator!!!
 
Duck Hill said:
An egg that is half-way incubated, can cool completely for several hours and still be fine.

A couple of years ago, a friend told me that her duck had left the nest sometimes in the night. She slept in, so at about 11:00 am she noticed the eggs were stone cold. She put them (gently) in the trash can. She called me about 2:00 pm and told me about it. I asked her to bring me the eggs, because I had read that they might still be viable.

I started up my incubator. At this age eggs normally contain embryos who swim around. These eggs contained cold, frozen embryos who showed no movement. They seemed clearly dead. Still, I placed them in the incubator. Two hours later.... the embryos were swimming around! And two weeks later, they hatched and were healthy.

So, yes, put them in the incubator!!!
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Amazing story!
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I bought balut eggs and put them in my refrigerator for the day.
(I did not know they were not regular duck ducks when I bought them.)

I decided to candle them before I cooked them.
There were what looked like dead ducks inside.

I built a fake bator real quick and I watched them come back to life.


Get the bator asap.


Have you any idea how long your duck was sitting in the eggs and have you candled them yet?
 
FYI know that eggs that are near hatching time can be fuzzy and black. I even had one egg that had ugly little spots upon candling that looked like bacterial growth, plus it was very dark and ugly. I saw no movement for about a week. I was sure it was rotten, but never quite got around to throwing it out.

Eventually... well, I called the duckling "Rotten" for the first week after it hatched. He was very cute.
 

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