is this normal?

[suebee]

Is it 21st day? If so, I'd help it.

 

[stargazingmommy]

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29 days, it's a duck egg being sat on by a chicken

 

[gamelife]

I think now you have no choice but to help it.
I know it's hard but next time I'd give it more time before messing with it.

 

[suebee]

Duck eggs are 35 days?

 

[stargazingmommy]

29-35. it internally pipped 4 days ago though

Anyway, I decided to finish opening it up because it looked like the yolk broke(70% thinks that to), the yolk was broken and the baby was dead

One more duck egg in the incubator, been turning it 3+ times a day. It's only been there 2 wks though.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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I am sorry for your loss.

 

[suebee]

Awww, darn it's so hard to lose one. I try to remember natural selection and survival of the fittest...it sort of makes me feel better. So sorry.

 

[stargazingmommy]

Just feel bad since it was our first try. Didn't even know if our duck eggs were fertile, just stuck it under the broody Chicken to give her something to sit on.
Then I candled and saw it moving in there.

Then we ended up with chicken eggs that were possibly fertile. Stuck 4 under the hen and 3 in the incubator. One in the incubator went bad and had insides oozing out and smelled horizontal. Tossed it. Tonight candles the other two on day 16 of incubation and nothing. No veins showing at all. Only thing I saw was air sacs. Not even a dark blob in them. Havny peeked at the ones under the chicken yet

 

[stargazingmommy]

It was beautiful though. Dark brown like my Drake with a half yellow bill and half black

 

[ILOVELEGHORNS]

Sorry about the losses! Its hard at first when starting out as a newbie at incubating. Thats how you gain experience and knowledge about the entire process. Dont give up! Its bound to get better as you learn what to do and what to look for during the entire incubating process.
It seems like the little duckling was getting ready to hatch, mamma hen possibly tried helping it or she accidently cracked the egg. Its easy for eggs to get contaminated with bacteria especially before the yolk has been drawn in its navel. That last picture didn't look good for the duckling. Did you wet the membrane so the contents were visible? If not, then the contents of the unabsorbed egg spilled into the airsack. There should have been some veinage. If the duckling didnt pip a hole into the membrane, then it was suffocateing and thats what the twitching was about...or just dying from being sick from contamination. In any case, if you see clear or nearly clear veins on the membrane and the chick didn't pip the airsack, then it is suffocateing and needs help right away. Typically a the birds head and beak is under its wing, and its neck contracts shoving its beak through the wing towards the airsack, pecking a hole. Its a very complicated and precise process. The baby bird nearly suffocates twice during hatch. First near suffocation, causes contractions within the neck to peck the membrane of the airsack. The seconed near suffocation, causes the same contractions to peck the initial hole in the shell.It is hard for them to do that if they are weak, sick, or are positioned the wrong way, such as neck and head pointed down. Sometimes they can drown in their own fluid from too much humidity, or maybe the membrane is to dry and sticks to the babies from not haveing enough humidity. They cant move in the shell. It just takes patience and experience. We all have been there, when we loose many babies, have no hatch, and sometimes these eggs are very expensive
In any case, seems to me as if the egg became contaminated, infecting the yolk, therefore it broke and caused the little guy not to make it.
The eggs you had in the incubator, I guarantee became contaminated from that one rotten egg you took out.
This site should hopefully help and for future candling purposes. Kind of like a gauge to compare Chicken egg stages too.

chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/.../egg_to.../development.html