Our duck eggs are over-due. 4 days over-due. I am surprised because our brand new incubator kept perfect temperature and we kept the water reservoir filled. The turner worked properly and our mystery egg hatched inside this incubator. So, we needed to investigate. The small, digital incubator came with a scope to "candle" the eggs. Usually, you candle an egg early in it's development to see if the egg was fertilized, growing appropriately, etc. Our scope does the same thing without having to remove the egg from the incubator. I used this website to help us determine what stage our eggs were in. After looking at each egg, four of our eggs looked to be at 25 or more days and ready to hatch. So it remains a new mystery why our duck eggs have not hatched. I am worried that they never will.
Check out this interesting candling page-great pictures! (You may need to paste this address into your browser to use the link)
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm
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