Is this a normal sized embryo?

[Isabella Mcadams]

Hi there,
I’m incubating duck eggs, and today they’re at day 25. I’m wondering if this is normal:

(#2 and #3 are of the same egg)

Both embryos are still very much alive and move around a lot. Just wondering if the size and orientation is normal.

 

[Purelychicks]

Hi there,
I’m incubating duck eggs, and today they’re at day 25. I’m wondering if this is normal:

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(#2 and #3 are of the same egg)

Both embryos are still very much alive and move around a lot. Just wondering if the size and orientation is normal.

I’m not a expert on duck eggs but it looks It’s a bit small.. but I would just wait and see

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

Because of the saddle air cell it’s hard to see but they don’t look bad
They may take an extra day or two to hatch or they maybe right on time

 

[Isabella Mcadams]

Because of the saddle air cell it’s hard to see but they don’t look bad
They may take an extra day or two to hatch or they maybe right on time

The air cell is where it should be, on the big end of the eggs, but those big pockets are what I’m wondering about. In my other eggs, the duckling takes up pretty much the whole egg, but not with these two

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

The air cell is where it should be, on the big end of the eggs, but those big pockets are what I’m wondering about. In my other eggs, the duckling takes up pretty much the whole egg, but not with these two

My air cells never dip that far on the backside
Only draw up on one side
That’s why I called it a saddle air cell
My lighter ducklings I can see in the egg a lot differently and they don’t look as full as my dark coloured babies
Is it possible you could have some yellow ducklings and some darker ones ?

 

[Isabella Mcadams]

My air cells never dip that far on the backside
Only draw up on one side
That’s why I called it a saddle air cell
My lighter ducklings I can see in the egg a lot differently and they don’t look as full as my dark coloured babies
Is it possible you could have some yellow ducklings and some darker ones ?

My air cells never dip that far on the backside
Only draw up on one side
That’s why I called it a saddle air cell
My lighter ducklings I can see in the egg a lot differently and they don’t look as full as my dark coloured babies
Is it possible you could have some yellow ducklings and some darker ones ?

Both eggs aircells look like this.

It is possible that they’re yellow, they’re 3/4 pekin and 1/4 welsh harlequin. Or they could be multicolored.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Because of the saddle air cell it’s hard to see but they don’t look bad
They may take an extra day or two to hatch or they maybe right on time

There not saddled they just are candling the wrong end

 

[I Like Turkeys]

Yes, not saddled, but likely dead. I’ve had eggs like this at lockdown and they never hatch. Healthy embryos take up the entire eggshell except the air cell. I equate this to embryo death, but I could be wrong. Just my experience that eggs like this don’t hatch.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

They look fine to me for day 25.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

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Both eggs aircells look like this.

It is possible that they’re yellow, they’re 3/4 pekin and 1/4 welsh harlequin. Or they could be multicolored.

That looks better
My yellow ducklings I could weirdly see through a lot of the egg shell and thought my babies were not good
But they were my yellow ones and hatched perfectly fine
It was different then what I was use to from my darker ones