➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[debid]

Did I scare all the duck people away with the photos?

I'm dying to know what day they were on/age!

There's an eight+ minute YouTube video where someone pasted together their candling footage and it's labeled by day. The music was intolerable so I didn't really watch it but when I skipped ahead, webby foot showed itself around day 21. I don't think yours had much growing time left.

 

[Xarinn]

@BantyChooks I am in rural Ontario

@KikisGirls you have to have the snow and cold to appreciate the heat!

 

[Kiki]

Thanks for posting your egg-topsy pictures. I've done that before and it makes me sad to see those little dead chicks.

If that were a chicken, I would say it was day 18 or 19, or about 2-3 days away from pipping. It has feathers and looks pretty well developed, but still has a lot of yolk to absorb.

I found this image for your future candling:
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Thank you.

So one vote for day 18-19.

 

[Kiki]

@BantyChooks I am in rural Ontario

@KikisGirls you have to have the snow and cold to appreciate the heat!

Heat killed my balluties!

 

[Xarinn]

I want candling pics.
I am trying to learn incubation.

Take your time.
I'm not going anywhere.

I made a candling video to show my mom last night, but it's like 1 min long

 

[Cyprus]

I want candling pics.

Kiki, here is Metzer's site with real candling pics of every day of embryonic development in duck eggs.
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm

 

[Kiki]

I made a candling video to show my mom last night, but it's like 1 min long

Youtube?

 

[lilmillefleur]

HEY now. Snow is good. Heat is not.

SO true! When it snows you can go out and enjoy it...ski, ice skate, whatever.
And when you're cold you go inside and warm up.
Heat, on the other hand....miserable. It kills cute duckies!

 

[Kiki]

Kiki, here is Metzer's site with real candling pics of every day of embryonic development in duck eggs.
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm

I was just going to look for you.
Can I do you poll tomorrow?
I think I need to put up one so people can vote on what day they were on.

 

[Morrigan]

Thank you.

So one vote for day 18-19.

In chicken days. Since duckling take a week longer than chicks, I would guess they are around day 24 to 25 in your case. So close, dang it!