Help with Muscovey nhatching

[Plboo]

I was recently given a flock of Muscovey- 2 female and 5 males. The first female flew away after the 5 boys continually sexually harassed her. ( best way to explain without graphic details). The 2nd female disappeared for a couple of days and when I found her on the 28th of Febuary she was sitting on 15 eggs. I separated her with eggs from the boys as soon as I found her. ( we free-range) Needless to say she got out of the coop on the 28th of March and disappeared. I brought the eggs inside and have kept them under a heatlamp. Today as I was checking them 9 smelled horrible so I cracked them open ( big mistake) they were nasty rotten ! Another egg looked the same so avoiding the stench I tossed it. ( bigger mistake) out popped a fully formed duckling with a lot of blood and yolk. did I kill it? What's the likelihood of the remaining 5 being viable?

 

[DucksAreBest]

I was recently given a flock of Muscovey- 2 female and 5 males. The first female flew away after the 5 boys continually sexually harassed her. ( best way to explain without graphic details). The 2nd female disappeared for a couple of days and when I found her on the 28th of Febuary she was sitting on 15 eggs. I separated her with eggs from the boys as soon as I found her. ( we free-range) Needless to say she got out of the coop on the 28th of March and disappeared. I brought the eggs inside and have kept them under a heatlamp. Today as I was checking them 9 smelled horrible so I cracked them open ( big mistake) they were nasty rotten ! Another egg looked the same so avoiding the stench I tossed it. ( bigger mistake) out popped a fully formed duckling with a lot of blood and yolk. did I kill it? What's the likelihood of the remaining 5 being viable?

Could you try candling the eggs? @MGG

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I was recently given a flock of Muscovey- 2 female and 5 males. The first female flew away after the 5 boys continually sexually harassed her. ( best way to explain without graphic details). The 2nd female disappeared for a couple of days and when I found her on the 28th of Febuary she was sitting on 15 eggs. I separated her with eggs from the boys as soon as I found her. ( we free-range) Needless to say she got out of the coop on the 28th of March and disappeared. I brought the eggs inside and have kept them under a heatlamp. Today as I was checking them 9 smelled horrible so I cracked them open ( big mistake) they were nasty rotten ! Another egg looked the same so avoiding the stench I tossed it. ( bigger mistake) out popped a fully formed duckling with a lot of blood and yolk. did I kill it? What's the likelihood of the remaining 5 being viable?

Just some advice. 5 males to 2 females is a really bad ratio. 1 male duck needs at least 3-4 females. They are extremely aggressive during mating season and will kill a female if there are to many.

On the topic of the eggs, you really need an incubator. A heat lamp alone will just simply cook the eggs. Duck eggs need a large amount of humidity. I think it's likely all the eggs are probably rotten at this point. You can candle them to see if any are alive though. Hope this helps!

 

[Plboo]

I tried candeling them, I don't know what I'm looking for. They all look the same. If the duckling had already died before I cracked it open would there have been all the fresh looking blood?