Duck and Goose eggs found

My daughter brought home a duck egg she found by the lake next to our house. At first I scolded and told her maybe she should let the mother duck take care of it. Then for some reason I had a change of heart. We don`t have a incubator so we dragged out the food dehydrator which works at a low temperature. We are running it at the lowest 95 degrees because the next temp is 105 which would be too high. The egg must be turned every 4 hours night and day. We also put water in the bottom to keep it humid. Then she brought in a cold goose egg today because mom is not sitting very well. It has been about a week and today my daughter shined a flashlight into the duck egg and low and behold there was a tiny heartbeat! What a thrill to see this little bitty embryo wiggle and to see the heart beating. We don`t yet know if the goose egg is fertile but time will tell.

Unfortunately, the nest where my daughter "stole" the egg has been raided by racoons. She actually rescued this poor little creature we see alive inside the egg. :)

Karen