Yesterday I found a single duck egg in my neighbor's backyard. He had been doing some yard work and there was no mother in sight. The egg was cold, so I brought the egg inside. I'm not even sure it's a duck egg, but it seems like one. I'm not exactly sure how to car for it. I placed it in a small bowl thing with a dry washcloth around it in an old hermit crab cage. I placed the cage in a cupboard with a desk lamp hovering above it in the cupboard. I periodically spritzed it with warm water and turned the egg a bit, as it said to do on various websites.
Today we bought a heat lamp because I felt the desk lamp wasn't producing enough heat. Now I have the egg sitting in a warm moist towel underneath the heat lamp. I have already tried the flashlight trick to see if the embryo is even living and there was a small reddish area near the top side of the egg. Am I taking good care of it? Does anyone think it is living? Should I spray it with water or keep it in the moist towel? Is there any way I can find out how old it is? Thank you!
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To tell you the truth the egg is more than likely already dead and you should throw it away. if it is not dead and no bird is laying on the egg it could be rotten from sitting out there too long.
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