Yesterday my little brother and I were at a local park with a lake/pond. Well there's geese and ducks there and my little brother was feeding the ducks while they were laying down, he got too close and they jumped into the water. After they swam away he found an egg in shallow water. We grabbed the egg and took it home and put it in blankets and under a lamp that lets off a lot of heat. It also has small crack. I need to know what I need to do. Also when I candle the egg, you can see the embryo at the top.
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Unfortunately, an embryo in an egg that was in cold water for an unknown period and that has a cracked shell is most probably dead. If the embryo was still alive when you placed it under a hot lamp without knowing the required temperature, it is certainly now dead as the embryo must be kept at a precise temperature in an incubator.
If you find another duck egg and it is not yet cold, try keeping it at 37.5°C, which is 99.5°F. If Your room is dry, mist the egg occasionally with water.
thank you guys. we found out yesterday that it was dead.
With the small crack the egg will not hatch. It is best to discard it before it begins to rot and smell really bad.
Do you know if a duck egg will survive after 24 hrs without the heat of their mother at 45 degrees temperature? A fox ate the duck mother yesterday. I didn't realize there were eggs left in the next till today. I've place a Lamp, and a warm water bottle to the 4 eggs, in the same next the mama duck had built.
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