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?

 

[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.

 

[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]

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.

Yes over 36 hours Cold!

 

[MGG]

Yes over 36 hours Cold!

It's a miracle that baby is even alive then. They can go into a, I forgot what the word is for it, lol. Where they stall out and go dormant kinda.

 

[Boymom2]

Probably died early. It's sad when they don't make it. I think this one looks really good though, you're doing an awesome job! Update when it starts hatching!

Yes I will !!

 

[Boymom2]

UPDATE!

I think the little guy is trying to hatch! First time I’ve seen the egg rock back and forth at all.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Can someone please help give me an update? Still no progress. No internal pipping. I don’t know what to do. It was 28 days last Friday since laying but obviously there was breaks in incubation. Trying to attach video but I’m not sure it’ll Let me.

Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo, then post the link here, we'll be able to see it. How exciting!