I agree with Casey, on that halping it out of the egg may help. But yea, I dont know too much about duck eggs either- aside form when I was little I stole one duck and one goose agg, and the duck egg hatched and joined a 'duck family', and the goose egg.. I trpped and fell afer my friend and I took it, and it smashed open and smelled horrible! But cut me some clack everyone- I was 5-6 years old! lol