Incubator Date: April 22
Candling Date: May 2nd — Day 10 — 16 of 18 fertile eggs! All look viable!
Day 23 — 5 eggs no longer look viable, leaving 11 possible.
Estimated Due Date: May 20th — 5 more days!
All of the children are very thrilled about the coming ducklings.
Our 4 year old is attached to Egg 5 now and our 6 year old now is attached to Egg 7.
The egg in this video is egg 14 and one of the most active looking. It is also one of the largest.
The farm these eggs came from has many kinds of ducks and so there is really no telling what kind of duck is in each egg. There is a very small egg in this group that I could swear is a chicken egg. Many chickens and ducks roam this farm and many have egg laying areas that mingle from what it looked like the times we have visited. Sadly though I may never know as that little egg does not look like it thrived.
We double checked the 2 eggs that did not look fertile the first time we candled them. One looks like it has bacteria growth in it, a blog of dark floating matter, a rotten egg in other words, and the other is still bright clear and yellow, we removed both these eggs tonight.
The 5 eggs that look to have not thrived we are keeping separate in the incubator. It is not unheard of for rotten eggs to explode and if this happens we do not want them to contaminate the other eggs or ducklings that should soon hatch. Not being experts at hatching however though we are also not yet comfortable giving up on those 5 eggs and wish them the best.
Wow, how exciting. That would be so fun to watch them hatch. I really hope for the best for the other 5.
Sarah
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