What do I do? Help!

[Boymom2]

Okay so I wrote last week about ducks eggs I inherited from a mama mallard that was attacked. All have died except one I was questioning. It’s the only one that ever got a warm reddish color to it. I thought surely it was probably dead but I candled it just to see and it moved inside after about 45 seconds. It startled me. What do I do? Humidity at 65 until hatch? The mama supposedly laid on feb 22 but they had 2 days of nothing sitting on them and were cold when I got them. I had them on a heating pad in a box for a day before I was able to grab an incubator. I really want this little one to make it but should I help? I do not see the beak in the air sac.

 

[Isaac 0]

Could you post a picture of you candling the egg?

 

[Boymom2]

Could you post a picture of you candling the egg?

 

[MGG]

That looks pretty good to me. Yep, just up humidity to 65 until hatch. Don't turn it anymore. I would expect it to start hatching in 3-4 days. Up humidity once it internally pips and then sit on your hands. Ducks take forever to hatch. Good job rescuing it!

 

[Isaac 0]

Looks like he is still alive, but from the picture, it looks like he is only around day 14-16.

 

[MGG]

Looks like he is still alive, but from the picture, it looks like he is only around day 14-16.

I don't know... It looks pretty close to me. I usually have lots of space in my eggs until internal pips happen. It might be a bit behind because it was cold for a while.

 

[MGG]

Sometimes my eggs still have that much space even after internal pip.

 

[Boymom2]

Looks like he is still alive, but from the picture, it looks like he is only around day 14-16.

I don’t think that’s possible. She laid them on Feb 22 and I’ve had them a week now. I did an eggtopsy on one of the others and it was definitely a pretty formed duck. In the photo it kind of looks like he isn’t taking up as much of the shell as it did earlier but he moved a bit. Almost the entire thing was black.

 

[Isaac 0]

I don't know... It looks pretty close to me. I usually have lots of space in my eggs until internal pips happen. It might be a bit behind because it was cold for a while.

lol, well my eggs are usually totally black, It might depend on the flashlight I guess, After looking on Meter farms Candling chart, it looks like your probably right.

 

[Boymom2]

That looks pretty good to me. Yep, just up humidity to 65 until hatch. Don't turn it anymore. I would expect it to start hatching in 3-4 days. Up humidity once it internally pips and then sit on your hands. Ducks take forever to hatch. Good job rescuing it!

I am so sad the others passed. Up higher than 65? I am no longer turning. How can I tell it internally pipped without candling?