Question about duck with eggs

[shelleyb1969]

I have a call duck who's been sitting on 4 eggs for quite some time now...I'd say close to 25 days. Can you see inside their eggs just before hatch? I checked her eggs today, and they look greyish black on the inside. Is this the duckling I'm seeing inside the egg, or are the eggs rotten? They don't smell bad.

 

[ruth]

Yes you can candle the eggs and should see moving embryos at this stage but I wouldn't toss them out even if I didn't see anything moving. Rotted eggs definitely stink and have blobs of floating junk in them. I don't know how long call ducks take to hatch but I have Rouens and they take 28 days.

 

[shelleyb1969]

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Thanks ruth. I didn't actually candle them...I just picked them up to look at them. They don't look white in color anymore...they're more of a darkish grey all over...so I was thinking maybe they were rotten, but they don't stink, at least not yet! I was so afraid one of them would explode in my hand.

Maybe the grey color I'm seeing is actually the duckling inside?

 

[ruth]

That's probably it.