Is there a way to tell if duck eggs are still good past the 25ish day mark? My husband was haying on Monday and saw a duck fly up and away so he hayed around the eggs. Each pass he made and came back, she was further and further away, always looking in the uncut section. When he finished she had never gone back to the eggs but he left figuring she would come back, looking everywhere and find them. He went back about 10 that night and no momma so he brought the eggs in and I threw them in my incubator.
When I candled them all I could see was a air cell and blackness. Figured they were close to hatching and left them be. I could see a very slight vein in a few but mostly, it was all black.
It's now Thursday and still nothing. I left them flat, never rotating because I thought they were beyond the turning point but now I'm not sure. Is there a way to tell how old they are? Or if they are alive? There is no shaking, no noise and doesn't look like any have internally pipped. We have never done ducks, only chicks. I'm keeping the humidity around 85 and temp is 99. How much longer do I keep watch, waiting?
Oh and he thinks they are Mallards
When I candled them all I could see was a air cell and blackness. Figured they were close to hatching and left them be. I could see a very slight vein in a few but mostly, it was all black.
It's now Thursday and still nothing. I left them flat, never rotating because I thought they were beyond the turning point but now I'm not sure. Is there a way to tell how old they are? Or if they are alive? There is no shaking, no noise and doesn't look like any have internally pipped. We have never done ducks, only chicks. I'm keeping the humidity around 85 and temp is 99. How much longer do I keep watch, waiting?
Oh and he thinks they are Mallards
