duck egg incubation

Hi there! We found a discarded duck egg at the edge of our pond partially submerged. Figured it couldn’t hurt to see if it was viable and we are delighted to find out it is! Any ideas how far along this bean is? We do have an incubator (the egg is currently safe inside) but have not hatched our...

Posting hoping for some answers as Google has been completely useless with this particular issue. I rescued an abandoned duck egg and made an incubator, with lamp for heat, water tray under lamp and a damp cloth near egg for humidity, turning the egg around 5 times a day. All seemed to be fine...

So I’ve been incubating some duck eggs from my khaki cambells, it’s day 13 and this is what the eggs look like. Ive never incubated eggs before let alone duck eggs, can someone tell me if these are viable?

I have never incubates eggs before, let alone duck eggs, but i am currently incubating my khaki cambells eggs that i presume were fertilised since my male was very active. it’s day 13 of incubation and as much research as i’ve done i’d like if someone could confirm for me that they’re viable...

Hi, I've had a black pacific duck egg incubating for 30 days (usually 28-30 day incubation period) and I think it may have died but this is the first time I have ever incubated an egg so I am rather unsure how long I leave the egg until I investigate. There is a lot of conflicting information...

Looking for the duck hatching experts! I have scoured the internet and can't find a reason that makes sense why my Muscovy eggs aren't hatching. Our own eggs are definitely fertile, we let a mama hen hatch out a clutch and she hatched 11 out of 12 eggs. The trouble comes when we incubate them...

Hello Everyone, I was hoping some of you could help me. We're getting some fertile duck eggs to hatch (Cayuga cross). I bought what I thought was a decent incubator- but there is no visible ventilation in it. From what I understand ventilation is very important. Am I missing something? It has...

Hi all, This is my first time hatching. I have a Nurture Right 360 set up and ready to go. I ordered some shipped duck eggs and also bought some other duck eggs locally to fill the rest of my incubator. I had carefully tried to avoid this exact situation, but unfortunately my shipment is...

My ducks just started laying eggs recently. She wasn’t making a nest, just laying them randomly around the pond, one every day or two. I know ducks won’t sit on the nest until the last egg is laid. If you want to incubate them are you supposed to wait and put them in the incubator at the same...

I am incubating Mallard eggs at this moment I started off with about 10 of them and four of them died around day 6 and I did and egg autopsy and they were not developed embryos I did another egg Topsy on for more of my duck eggs that died around 18 to 20 days incubation and they looked fully...

Hi! I'm new here, and I don't know much about the lives of waterfowl. We live in a neighborhood with a pond that is home to a flock of geese and a few ducks who seem to stick together against the geese. The pond has been taken over by duckweed, so I was out scooping it to try to put a dent in...

Hi BYC friends, This is my first hatch. I have 9 ducks eggs; 4 mallards and 5 runners. I candled them on day 5 because I couldn’t wait to see how my babies were progressing. I candled them again today, day 7, and they all appear to be healthy and progressing as they should but one (my...

Candling one of my mallard eggs at day 6.

i have been incubating my duck eggs for 28 days now and yesterday we heard pipping and chirping about 9 o clock and there was an opening in the egg. But since hen there has been no noise and no movement. The crack in the egg is right to the duckling and feathers are visable. What should I do ?!?

hi! My first post here tho I’ve been lurking for a while! I have a duck egg I found next to my bird feeder 29 days ago. Kind of made a make shift incubator and it’s been developing just as shown on a duck egg candling graphic I found online. Tho I dare say I’ve been pretty good bout...

Hi all, Day 28 for my duck eggs was yesterday, but I had one duckling hatch on Tuesday night. Since there had been absolutely no action from the other eggs (no pipping, no rocking and rolling, no noise--I'm used to chicken eggs, maybe ducks are different?), I thought the other 7 I have were not...

So, I've had this muscovy egg for about 30days (not really sure how old it is) This is what it looks like. The yellow thing is the air cell When not candling it you can see an orange-ish circle around he air cell as well as some grey bleuish spots , a very large oneon the back of the eggs and a...

Hi, I found what I believe to be a duck egg (taken from the nest by crows) in my yard today. Can anyone tell me if it is fertilized and/or viable? If yes, how do I incubate it.

I set chicken eggs last week that are on day 6 or 7 today. Then my friend surprised me and brought me some fertilized duck eggs today. I'd really love to add them too since I'm doing this in my kindergarten classroom, and it would be so fun for them to see chicks and ducklings! But I know if I...

So I have this Muscovy duck egg that I found all alone. It was already kind of cold, but I couldn't just leave it alone, so I took it back and put it under a heat lamp, pointed side facing down. I bought a thermometer and hydrometer and am trying to keep the temp at a constant 99-101 degrees. I...