Is there anybody in this egg?

[Saigey]

So, the wood ducks in our wood duck house seem to have hatched this morning (YAY!). I was cleaning out the box and found two eggs. One was definitely gone, but I honestly can't tell if there's a little duckie in this one or not! I've got it in a makeshift incubator just in case.

 

[Saigey]

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

There is but he/she is only about a week old (prob was slipped in there by a diff duck after they others were incubated for awile.)

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

Part of me wants to say this is a no-go egg - but there may well be finer details that I cannot see in these pictures so I'm reluctant to write it off just yet without further investigation.

Suggest you incubate it for 5-7 days (just in case it was recently laid) and then candle again. IF it were recently laid - then in 7 days time you should see definite signs of veining and development. If it is an older egg then it will not have changed much.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Part of me wants to say this is a no-go egg - but there may well be finer details that I cannot see in these pictures so I'm reluctant to write it off just yet without further investigation.

Suggest you incubate it for 5-7 days (just in case it was recently laid) and then candle again. IF it were recently laid - then in 7 days time you should see definite signs of veining and development. If it is an older egg then it will not have changed much.

Yup^

 

[Saigey]

Part of me wants to say this is a no-go egg - but there may well be finer details that I cannot see in these pictures so I'm reluctant to write it off just yet without further investigation.

Suggest you incubate it for 5-7 days (just in case it was recently laid) and then candle again. IF it were recently laid - then in 7 days time you should see definite signs of veining and development. If it is an older egg then it will not have changed much.

Thanks! I was tempted to say it was a late development quitter, but it doesn't stink, doesn't have any cracks, and the air cell is definitely not punctured. I've got it at high humidity and at about 90° F. I'm not turning it, just in case. If there is development, it's somewhere in the later stages.

 

[Saigey]

Thanks! I was tempted to say it was a late development quitter, but it doesn't stink, doesn't have any cracks, and the air cell is definitely not punctured. I've got it at high humidity and at about 90° F. I'm not turning it, just in case. If there is development, it's somewhere in the later stages.

 

[Sierra G]

The air cell looks too large to me. I think it's lost too much weight to be viable.

 

[sassychickens76]

I hope he is viable! Did you see ANY movement?

 

[Saigey]

The air cell looks too large to me. I think it's lost too much weight to be viable.

You might be right. It's a very tiny egg. I'll give it a chance, though. It was at the very bottom of the wood duck house, underneath everything.