Duck Egg Candling Photo Diary

[Jemima Puddles]

I'm working on editing last night's pictures right now. I only managed to take about 4 pictures before the camera battery died on me (stupid me, I left the charger next door), so I won't have many to choose from - it may take me awhile playing with the brightness and contrast levels in the pictures before you can really see anything in them. /img/smilies/sad.png


I might just wait until I get tonight's pictures lump them both together in one entry for days 9 & 10.


But boy, are those little duckies getting big! They were super-active last night while I was candling - they were probably trying to tell me to "CUT IT OUT! WE'RE SLEEPING IN HERE!" /img/smilies/big_smile.png

This is really helpful to know as I didn't know If all the movement and wriggling was a good or a bad thing!

 

[RookyBreeder]

^this is the fourth day
ok so i got a question for you guys i have been incubating a couple of my eggs after they were with my female duck. but then she stoped laying on them so i built an incubator. one of the eggs developed a tiny heart or what looked like one. this was just as i was putting it into my incubator and after four days the dark spot i assumed to be the heart just seemed to grow a bit bigger and change shape a bit but i still did not see any veins in it. i have the pictures of the egg one for each day from the day it went into the incubator till the fourth day.
so my question is is it alive or is it dead?