hatching duck eggs

  1. Lol123

    Muscovy duck abandoned nest

    So I had a muscovy duck sit on 6 eggs, shes been sitting for around 3 weeks now, candled them and only 1 is growing. I took two eggs away as they was rotten and smelt bad. Shes abandoned the nest since I removed them, she was off the nest for 5 hours till I noticed, the eggs was cold. Since I...
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  2. O

    Duck eggs day 26 pipped

    I started with 9 eggs in the incubator on September 24 when I candled them 2 had started forming but died at some point, 2 were infertile, and one had a chip in it. The other 4 are still going strong! Day 26 today 3 of them have external pipped and I can't tell if the fourth one has. Over night...
  3. M

    Advice Needed for hatching Duck Eggs

    Hi there, I am new here and new to hatching. We have 8 viable eggs in an incubator and on day 27. 7 of them internally pipped and then almost 48 hours ago externally pipped. Yesterday one of them cracked the shell around 12 hours ago at the wrong end. Deciding to let nature takes it course and...
  4. R

    Roosters and Drakes

    I’m currently hatching a barnyard mix of chickens and ducks but I have nowhere to take the Roos and drakes. If anyone in the Baltimore MD area is interested let me know or if you know any place that would be willing to take them. Thanks!
  5. basiljowii

    Duck Embryos Dying late in Incubation

    we’ve been trying to incubate duck eggs for about two and a half months now with no success. We have gotten to day 26 and then the ducklings would just die. The temperature we’ve tried incubating them at is 37.5 degrees Celsius and the humidity is 50%. We’ve had about 15 fertilised eggs that...
  6. mews

    Mallard Duck Egg Suddenly Has Bruising, Advice Needed!

    Hello all! Yesterday I had posted about this duck egg and today will be the same but a new discovery, as I noticed a new appearance of bruising on my ducklings egg (I have not taken it out of the incubator as of yet). The only thing is, it's where the membrane is (the pointy end). This...
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    • assist a hatch duck hatch help needed duckling duckling advice duckling urgency egg bruise hatching hatching duck eggs hatching help mallard duck
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  7. mews

    Help Needed‼️ Mallard Duck Egg.

    Hello all, I was hoping to find someone who could help me understand what's going on with my Mallard duck egg, as it has yet to hatch and I noticed it some new changes today. To start off, I had gotten this egg a while ago (about roughly two weeks ago) after finding that my mallards had been...
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    • duck hatching help hatching hatching duck eggs help help asap mallard duck mallard duckling
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  8. duckyfei

    emergency!! my duck is killing her hatchlings

    hi guys, my duck is currently sitting on her first clutch of eggs, yesterday one of the first ones pipped, but the shell seemed quite cracked… I put it back under mama duck, but this morning, poor duckling was crushed and flattened… they got out of the shell but was killed :( we have another...
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    • Forum: Ducks
  9. Mikayla1234

    HELP! Twin duck egg no pip day 28

    This is only my second time hatching some of my duck eggs and I got twins! Everything has been going good but now it is day 28 with no pip! They are still alive, lots of movement and a little bit of shaking, but I’m worried they don’t have enough room or are shrink wrapped or are too weak. If...
  10. PeepingK

    Please HELP! Day 27 duck egg no internal pip and membrane dried out?

    Hello, this is my first post here on BYC and I’m in need of some advice. To make a long story short I have a duck egg on almost day 28 that hadn’t popped internally. There was one other egg in the incubator with it but unfortunately didn’t make it last night and I don’t know the cause of death...
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    • day 27 dry membrane hatching duck eggs help help! #ducklings #distress #needhelpnow last egg no piping shrink wrapped
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  11. E

    First Time Hatcher. Is my duck embryo dead? So much conflicting information online!

    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...
    • emmalea
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    • candling duck egg dead duck egg duck duck egg development duck egg incubation duck eggs duck hatching duck incubation hatching duck eggs incubation candling
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  12. I

    Muscovy Eggs Won't Hatch

    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...
  13. E

    HELP!!! Are these eggs alive. natural egg incubation

    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...
    • ethan_hart726
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    • duck hatching duckling ducks eggs fertile duck eggs fertile eggs hatching duck eggs natural natural inubation
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    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Quacking ducks

    Hatching ducklings with a incubator for the first time.

    Hi, I am trying to hatch some of my ducks eggs in the incubator and have some questions. 1. Are there Supposed to be black areas on the egg, like big blood pockets? 2. Do the veins ever disappear while they are incubating? Thank you
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    • duck eggs hatching hatching duck eggs incubator
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    • Forum: Ducks
  15. CLovesDucks

    The Mallards HATCHED! Question about ‘wry neck’

    Hi BYC friends! 4 of my 9 duck eggs (mallards - runners are in progress) have hatched! I left them in the incubator for 24 hours and then put them in the brooder. Three of them are doing great and are cheeping and sitting upright. I have one, who is secretly my favorite, that can’t hold her...
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    • baby duck hatch hatch a duck hatching and brooding ducks hatching duck eggs hatching ducks incubation wry neck
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  16. C

    HELP !!!

    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 ?!?
  17. D

    Newby... hatching duck egg questions

    Hello! My husband found a duck egg on our dock on March 31st and we decided to try and hatch it. We rigged up an incubator with a basket, a light and our meat thermometer. I google info so we kept the temp at 99.5, turned the egg several times a day and moistened it. Day 26 we lowered the temp...
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    • hatching duck eggs mallards eggs. no pip overdue hatch
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  18. H

    Worried about hatch

    This is the first time I have incubated duck eggs. Yesterday was day 28 and they all started pipping. However it has been 24 hours and they have not started to “zip”, so I am starting to get nervous. When I put my ear up to the incubator I can hear little peeps and I can see and hear the...
    • Hubiesbirdies
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    • ducks hatch a duck hatching duck eggs help for incubating duck eggs help hatch
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  19. Seasonmomma

    Toxic Oven Fumes!?

    I know you should never NEVER run the self clean cycle on an oven when you have birds of any sort, or hatching eggs, in the house. My question needs a little background first. I’m going to try to hatch eggs next month or the month after, duck more specifically, not that it should matter I...
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    • eggs hatching chickens hatching chicks hatching duck eggs hatching ducks hatching egg help toxic toxic chemicals
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  20. poyopoulet

    Humidity Levels During Lockdown

    Hi! I was wondering whether I should open the incubator to add water for raising humidity levels because I have to add water on Wednesday, but that's a day after lock-down for hatching starts. I would greatly appreciate it if anybody could help me. Thanks!
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