Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[Lacrystol]

I'm not seeing a defect but I do see other things going on.

but would like to know if that guy is in the same group...

 

[casportpony]

Several posts back they said the temp was at 97.3 and I'm guessing that was the lockdown temp, not the incubation temp. It's since been raised.


-Kathy

I thought I read it was that low?  OK so I'm not imagining it.. LOL

As far as I know that was the lowest.

-Kathy

 

[MuscovyLover]

Okay. So 97.3 is 36.2 here ladies. Yes, the temp was that low for half a day. In one day I was told four or five different temps so it got changed a few times in 12 hrs then I went this can't be good and just put it back to what I had it on at the start of lockdown which was 36.7.
I'm so lost now about all of this.
To answer the other question, yes, both eggs are from the same batch. Same dad but different mums.
What is it you see going on?
And what can I do from here?

 

[MuscovyLover]

In that 12 hour gap of panic on Sunday I was told to lower it as much as 34ºC. I changed it, then automatically put it a bit higher because it didn't sit right with me. Over the course of Sunday afternoon I slowly raised it back up to the original lockdown temp which was 36.7 to 36.8 and it has stayed there since. It's now early Tuesday morning here.

 

[casportpony]

What day is it at now?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

FWIW, I've seen many eggs sit out of the nest overnight and still hatch, so I don't think lowering the temp could do much harm.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

 


I'm not seeing a defect but I do see other things going on.

but would like to know if that guy is in the same group...

The defect in mine could not be seen.

-Kathy

 

[MuscovyLover]

What day is it at now?

-Kathy

In 12 hours it'll roll over to day 40.

 

[casportpony]

Wow, and it's still alive?

-Kathy

 

[MuscovyLover]

Just candled him quickly and he's still moving around in there, though it seems like he's spasming, not moving as freely as he was.
I may be way off but I have a feeling because I didn't store them correctly at first, that his back is stuck to the shell.
Given the way the mass looks under light, he appears curled with bum and head on either side below the air sac.
The fact that he hasn't filled in all of that egg and the way he's positioned make me think that.
Even if I did what I did with the other egg and try to help him, I suspect his head is half a cm or so down the side from the air sac so I wouldn't be able to free up his beak anyhow.
Plus I'm terrified after egg number 1's outcome.