Question about Wood duck egg development.

[jsvand5]

My wood duck laid a few eggs a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately she laid most in the pond and only one in the box. She apparently had been incubating the one egg without me knowing for a little while. I took the egg in hopes of having her lay another clutch that was hopefully a bit bigger. When I started incubating the egg artificially it already had some veins and the beating heart was just barely visiable. The egg has been progressing well, but I am wondering at about what day the egg may have been when I put it in the incubator? I put it in on 4/2 so I am wondering when I should stop turning? I am thinking I should be pretty close. My guess for hatching day is 4/25

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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You were probably around day 5-8 when you started incubating it.

 

[jsvand5]

Wow so I could be looking at hatching any day now. I was thinking maybe I was on day 4. I think I'll stop turning tomorrow.

 

[miniwhipkey]

I also would say 5-7 days. Yea go ahead and go into lock down.