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Hello okay so I have 11 duck eggs I do not have an incubator but they are in
a plastic kiddie pool (I have seen people use them as brooders but not incubators I was planning to get chicks but all of them died during shipping so now I have duck eggs) filled with bedding and hay, they have a red heating lamp that I constantly check the temp. on to make sure its between 99.5-100.3 degrees F I have damp sponges and clothes on a heating pad making it feel moist and damp in the room. One half of the kiddie pool is covered with a not dripping but wet towel the other half has the eggs with hay all around them and the heating lamp. when the heating lamp gets to hot or cold I move it. I am worried sick about them constantly, but I can't sleep in there because its like an incubator. None of them smell weird or funny when I candle them they seem to be 20-24 days along but there air bubble seems more like 24-26 days. Is there a specific way to tell f one is dead is there signs I should be looking for? I have everything they need for when they do hatch. Is there anything else I can do for them?
sorry it was allot to say and its on incubation and hatching rather than ducks but I think it would have more to do with incubation.
a plastic kiddie pool (I have seen people use them as brooders but not incubators I was planning to get chicks but all of them died during shipping so now I have duck eggs) filled with bedding and hay, they have a red heating lamp that I constantly check the temp. on to make sure its between 99.5-100.3 degrees F I have damp sponges and clothes on a heating pad making it feel moist and damp in the room. One half of the kiddie pool is covered with a not dripping but wet towel the other half has the eggs with hay all around them and the heating lamp. when the heating lamp gets to hot or cold I move it. I am worried sick about them constantly, but I can't sleep in there because its like an incubator. None of them smell weird or funny when I candle them they seem to be 20-24 days along but there air bubble seems more like 24-26 days. Is there a specific way to tell f one is dead is there signs I should be looking for? I have everything they need for when they do hatch. Is there anything else I can do for them?
sorry it was allot to say and its on incubation and hatching rather than ducks but I think it would have more to do with incubation.
Citations:
"Candling Eggs." Wildlife Rehabber. Wildlife Rehabber, 2013. Web. 15 July 2013.
<http://wildliferehabber.com/candling-eggs>. To help describe how far
along my duck eggs are. To show the stages of duck eggs visually.
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