HELP

[eriin_jeanxo]

Duck eggs nearly ready to hatch within a few days.... healthy or dead?

 

[eriin_jeanxo]

Do you see any veins for movement? Or do the contents of the egg slosh around when you turn it? It looks dead to me, I'm sorry.

No veins or movement

 

[my gang eats grass]

The first and second look healthy. The one in the second picture looks like it is starting an internal pip to me, does the beak move at all? You shouldn't be able to see many veins if they are close to hatching. The ones that look a bit cloudy inside towards the air pocket are probably rotten.

 

[my gang eats grass]

It could be for the first egg, but when I've hatched ducklings it depends on the flashlight and the thickness of the air pocket, I have had healthy ducklings from both color glows. The second one wouldn't be dead with it's beak in the air pocket unless it died right after it started an internal pip. They don't move all the time, if it has just internally pipped it might be resting. Hopefully you'll get some ducklings.

 

[Weeg]

Do you see any veins for movement? Or do the contents of the egg slosh around when you turn it? It looks dead to me, I'm sorry.

 

[Weeg]

No veins or movement? Looks like a quitter.

 

[Weeg]

This one on the other hand could be alive. Do you see veins or movement in this egg? I think I see veins in the picture.

 

[Weeg]

Quitter.

 

[Weeg]

This one could be alive as well.
I'm not an expert though, so dont take my word for it.

Can you give us some info on your setup? What incubator? Are you using a separate calibrated thermometer and hygrometer? What day are you on? When did you put these eggs into lockdown? When was the last time you candled and saw life?

 

[Weeg]

No veins or movement

If theres no veins, and no movement, its likely dead. I'm sorry.