Mysteriously Disappearing Eggs + No Hatches

Thanks for the bunch of replies! We candled more eggs, and we saw one with what looked like a fracture, but I'm thinking it MIGHT just be internal pipping. And since thermometers are important then, we'll get one hopefully! Also, I don't know if I asked this yet but does anyone know around when eggs start peeping? We haven't heard any peeps yet but if we imitate peeps, the eggs make way more movement. It's as if they were cheering on for their siblings. :) One last question, will any fracture, big or small, kill a fetus or does it still have a chance to live? ALMOST FORGOT! All the eggs we candled are alive!

Anyway here are the pictures. One is an internal capture, it looks like that big greenish-black "vein" or "scratch" in the airsac. The external capture one was hard to get but in order to tell if it's a fracture or pipping then we need a picture of the shell. When I feel the cracks on the outside, I think I feel texture but I might not feel anything.


 
SO now that we know that the egg has NOT pipped and it IS a fracture, please tell me they can live from a fracture...right?
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Oh my goodness I am so happy! Hopefully we'll have 6 ducklings running around pretty soon! :D

Edit: If and when they hatch we will have a super photo shoot!
 
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Oh, so where did you get your dates mixed up???
I didn't get "MY" dates mixed up, I am going on what the OP says, she said they are due around the 15th, but that the Duck had left the nest and they had been uncovered all day... I said going by what happens with Chicken eggs that when they are allowed that much time to cool they may delay the hatch...

I was only telling her not to worry to much "IF" their late.
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