I need opinions. Duck eggs and a clueless girl.

[Cajunsnowwhite]

Hi yall. So my neighbors pet duck was ran over by the tractor while sitting on her eggs. I bought an incubator and I’m trying to save them. I found them June 3rd. When I candled them I saw what I thought was the bulleye. On June 6th I saw veins in 2 of them. I started with 11 eggs and in down to 5 that are active and one that’s questionable. It’s June 15th and I have a good bit of activity inside. I can see them moving around. I’m thinking they’re 14-16 days but I’m not sure. Can anyone with more experience than me tell me what day it looks like we are on.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

To me they look like they are in the last week of incubation. I'd guess they will hatch in another 7-10 days, but don't hold me to it.

 

[SnackMeat]

Unless it was a Muscovy duck, in which case incubation could be up to 38 days. I can't really tell much from your pictures.

 

[Cajunsnowwhite]

I can’t get a good picture. I tried again. I will say that there is a lot of movement

 

[SnackMeat]

The veins are good. I would look up air bubble calendar duck eggs and that can give you an idea.

There's also the development chart here:

http://www.waterfowl.org.uk/husbandry/incubation/

I prefer to use a hand flashlight, even a pen flashlight so I am not putting the eggs upside down. Plus incubator flashlights kind of suck in general (but I am biased.)

It looks like day 19 (ish) to me (I have some duck eggs at day 22 so they look close to mine but slightly less far along.)

 

[SnackMeat]

Also, have you been dipping the duck eggs daily in warm water to simulate the mother duck getting off the nest and coming back wet and sitting on the eggs?

 

[Cajunsnowwhite]

I haven’t dipped them. I’ve been spraying them.

 

[Cajunsnowwhite]

I’m gonna use a flashlight to see if I can get better pictures

 

[SnackMeat]

Yeah, spraying works too supposedly. This is my first time doing duck eggs.

Good luck with the flashlight. I love candling.

 

[Evadig]

I haven’t dipped them. I’ve been spraying them.

This is fine. You don’t need to dip them .