Is my duckling alive?

[Babyquail]

It’s day 12 and I am doing a project, and candling an egg every day of incubation. Never done this before, and the embryo isn’t moving and the inside of the egg looks splotchy. I’ll include a video, but is he ok?

 

[Weeg]

It’s day 12 and I am doing a project, and candling an egg every day of incubation. Never done this before, and the embryo isn’t moving and the inside of the egg looks splotchy. I’ll include a video, but is he ok?

Is there any veining? I think they looks like a quitter.

 

[Babyquail]

Is there any veining? I think they looks like a quitter.

I can see some of the veins, but as I said it now looks splotchy compared to a few days ago. Was moving just fine yesterday…

 

[Weeg]

I can see some of the veins, but as I said it now looks splotchy compared to a few days ago. Was moving just fine yesterday…

Is it moving at all?

 

[Babyquail]

Is it moving at all?

Difficult to tell, I didn’t see any thrashing like yesterday, but it could have moved and I didn’t catch it, reviewing my video and don’t see anything. Any chance it’s still alive, and how can I tell?

 

[SilverBirds]

Loos like he may have quit. Give him a few more days in the bator to be sure.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I agree, it looks like it's quit already. But you can always keep incubating it just in case, as long as there's no funky smell or leakage. I usually let them go until the end unless they start to smell.

 

[Weeg]

I agree with the others to leave him for a few more days. You can incubate as long as you like as long as there’s no smell or leakage.

 

[Babyquail]

Difficult to tell, I didn’t see any thrashing like yesterday, but it could have moved and I didn’t catch it, reviewing my video and don’t see m

Loos like he may have quit. Give him a few more days in the bator to be sure.

I agree with the others to leave him for a few more days. You can incubate as long as you like as long as there’s no smell or leakage.

Would my project of filming his candeling have anything to do with it? I was told it would be fine but don’t want to hurt any more ducklings

 

[Weeg]

There is no issue with candling daily. Brody’s would get up daily to eat snd drink, some people purposely cool their duck eggs daily, so a quick candle shouldn’t be an issue. Unfortunately some eggs just don’t make it.