Our first call duck incubation adventure (hatch-a-long)

[MrsWinterWheat]

Welcome to my first hatch-a-long, I am starting with 12 call duck eggs.

Timeline:
- May 13/2024 - eggs shipped from Nova Scotia
- May 14/2024 - eggs arrived! (Saskatchewan)
Day 0 (May 15/2024)- @ 2030 eggs set in incubator (turner not started as some air pockets moving)
temp 99F 52% humidity (higher then I wanted but my hydrometer had not arrived yet…I worked this out after the fact)
- Day 4 automatic turning started
- Day 7 weights done and noted to have not enough fluid loss so decreased humidity to 50% (new hydrometer set). Blood vessels visible in all 12 eggs
- Day 10 started cooling eggs for 15 min each day and movements noted in 6 eggs.
- Day 12 movement noted in all 12 eggs!

 

[2ndTink]

A call duck hatch-a-long! ooh this is exciting! And all 12 growing

@TwoCrows @Debbie292d @ElfenLied89 @BantyChooks @wrathsfarm @KathiQuacks @Slothinc @GreenJay @fluffycrow @pipdzipdnreadytogo bring friends!

 

[GreenJay]

A call duck hatch-a-long! ooh this is exciting! And all 12 growing

@TwoCrows @Debbie292d @ElfenLied89 @BantyChooks @wrathsfarm @KathiQuacks @Slothinc @GreenJay @fluffycrow @pipdzipdnreadytogo bring friends!

Thanks for the tag Tink!

Let's grow little duckies!

@Antiocheggers !
@WoDia !

 

[KathiQuacks]

A call duck hatch-a-long! ooh this is exciting! And all 12 growing

@TwoCrows @Debbie292d @ElfenLied89 @BantyChooks @wrathsfarm @KathiQuacks @Slothinc @GreenJay @fluffycrow @pipdzipdnreadytogo bring friends!

Thanks for the tag! How exciting this will be!
@Jenbirdee @tlcmurphy @GirlsHuntToo @ElfenLied89 @Sally PB @NagemTX @Nero70002 @Luv Ducks @Canadian Wind @Miss Lydia

 

[Slothinc]

Incredible that all 12 are developing!! So excited to follow along!!!

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Following along!!!

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Thanks for the tag @KathiQuacks!!!

 

[MrsWinterWheat]

It is really exciting…I have another weighing planned for this evening everyone is doing good.
It takes all my might to not check on them

 

[ElfenLied89]

Oooooo

 

[2ndTink]

It is really exciting…I have another weighing planned for this evening everyone is doing good.
It takes all my might to not check on them

It is so fascinating to watch them growing.

I'm not a duck person (I would like to have ducks but I'm being responsible and not getting any ), how many days for the call ducks to incubate in total?