Does anybody have/have had ducks that they are letting brood on fertile eggs?
Our 3 hens have a large communal nest outside with about 20+ eggs. I’m in my first year with duck keeping and I’m unsure if I should be candling the eggs or not.
I have been removing and eggs that smell bad or have...
I do not believe this egg is fertile but curious on other opinions? Do not have much experience with telling if they are as I never needed to know. Last year we did look into it just out of curiosity and you could very easily tell that the eggs we were collecting were fertile. What are your...
So I have had two mallards that have gone broody one after the other. The first one I got rid of the eggs bc they weren’t fertile but she got so depressed after I did that that I didn’t mess with the eggs for the second one. These ducks are a year old and my first experience with ducks. The...
So i dont know when this was laid because it was found on a boat cover. I’ve had chickens before but never a male. I have a way to incubate it and have done so but i dont know if it’s fertile. I didn’t pick it up but one it was handled too much and about to be throw away I decided to give it a...
Hi I know you need to look for a bullseye to find out if a egg is fertilized but I cracked open my anacona duck eggs to see but I can’t tell. These are the clearest pics I could get.
I am letting my fawn and white runner Hatch her own eggs naturally. We only have her and one white pekin drake. I have candled the eggs every few days. Some of the eggs had looked as of they were further developed than others. Thus may have been because she was determined sitter before she was...