Muscovy duck eggs HELP!

[Randi lea]

Ok so I have never done this before so I'm freaking out. I have duck eggs in an incubator that I made because I ended up with six duck eggs that were almost due to hatch. Unfortunately and sadly momma duck died so I am trying my hardest to hatch these babies but completely freaking out because according to my calculations from when momma died they should have been hatching in about five days and now at this point they are about 3-5 days late I put them on lockdown which is what I read to do about 4 days ago and I dont notice any internal pipping but there is slight movement not a lot though. They are barely moving and 3 of them have dark spots in the aircell but it doesn't look like beaks just dark spots. I'm not sure of what to do now or if it's to late and i should call a quits because they are so late.

 

[Rooster G]

Are you saying the eggs are on day 39?

 

[Randi lea]

Yes 37 or 39 days now

 

[Rooster G]

I would give it a couple more days unless they become smelly. Some people like the water test. Good luck.

 

[Randi lea]

Thank you!! How do you do the water test?