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So I put my harlequin eggs in the incubator 13 days ago and when I candled them today they were all 3 (I set 7 and four never developed) moving around inside their shells. The weird thing is that they look way bigger than they should be at 13 days. They look more like a 17 day old duck egg...

No One? ;(

I ordered 6 WH eggs and they arrived yesterday with what looks to be detached air cells on all of them. Now the consensus seems to be to keep them upright, pointy end down (if you can even determine which end is pointier than the other, lol), for the duration of incubation. It is also advised to...

Thanks! Do you think they are still viable?

From what I've googled it could be that the air sacs have detached. They recommend putting them in egg cartons pointy end down and leaning them at an angle during incubation. Thoughts?

I just got my WH eggs in the mail and candled them. Does this look like what I should see on day 1? Also, there last what looks like an air bubble in each of them and when I turn the egg it moves with it. Is this normal? Sorry, first timer. Thanks.

Thanks everyone. I suppose I will just try to build the biggest run that I can and then only let them out to forage when we are outside with them.

We will be hatching some Welsh Harlequins soon, they will be our first poultry experience, and I am currently trying to plan their coop. I have an acre of land and I would like to fence off about a quarter of an acre for them to roam on. I plan on building a duck house with an attached pool deck...

We only want a few hens so it would have cost 60 bucks to ship such a small number plus the 30 dollar minimum they charge you. I don't know if any local places in alaska to pick some welshies up and shipping half a dozen eggs only cost me 30 bucks total so we decided hatching would be a fun...

Oh sorry, I will be hatching some eggs but I was wondering about cleaning and storing the eggs my future ducks will produce

Do you store them in the fridge after washing or just out on the counter? I've heard of you remove the "bloom" then they have to go in the fridge.

Hi all, i have ordered six welsh harlequin eggs for hatching and we are hoping to hatch them ourselves in an incubator and keep them as pets to help with the garden and supply us with eggs. If we get more than one drake in this batch then we will likely sell them for meat or preferably as...