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What counts as a chilly night? Also I checked on them since I put them in and their feet were really warm and they were shaking. What does that mean?

I have 2 magpie ducklings, they are 3 and half weeks old and they are stinking up the house. I have a coop waiting for them outside, can they go outside? Here in temperate England the night temperature drops to a minimum of 12°C (53.6°F) but it's usually warmer. They have newspaper and hay bedding.

I asked the seller and he doesn't have Muscovies and his Magpies are pure bred so there is no chance they're Muscovy. Day 34 is coming to an end and I've lost hope. The eggs are blackening and when I put them in water there was no movement so I cracked them open. This is the non-air sack...

Alright, thank you very much

I've heard that some ducks have nails like Muscovies but others don't, mainly waterfowl. I've can't find anywhere that says that Magpie ducks do or not have nails. Can someone please help. Thank you in advance

I will, again thanks for the help I really appreciate it :)

Wow mules? That sounds kinda cool. I heard that Muscovies need much lower humidity levels to hatch, is this true? If so, I don't think they'll hatch since I've keep the humidity, for the last 3 days, at 70%~80% and I've been spraying them with water :( Thank you so much for the help :D

It is a digital readout, I checked the accuracy before I started incubating eggs and they had the same readout so I assumed that they were accurate. I'm a computer science student so I designed my own automated incubator using an Arduino. I made it so the temperature doesn't go below 37.0C...

They look healthy, I can't see anything since they're quite developed. The air sac is also larger than the one I cracked open. The thermometer-humidity is a DHT22 AM2302 which is +/- 0.5C but I'm not sure how calibrated it is. Is there a limit to how many days they take to hatch?

They were sold as magpie ducks and the other that hatched were magpie ducks. The temperature was 37.7C (99.86F), the others hatched so I'm guessing that the incubator setup was correct. But what about the others?

I'm incubating 6 magpie duck eggs, and so far 3 have hatched by day 29. It is now day 31 and they were still 3 eggs still left. I decided to candle them and one looked like number 5 only with a smaller air sac, so I cracked it open but it was still moving. Here is the video of it moving: Here...

Thank you. My gut said to help them, especially after the first death. When I've picked a hole should I spray them with water often? My temperature is 37.7C (99.86F) and the humidity is hovering around 68%

I've incubated 6 magpie duck eggs all of which are fertilized and we're growing strong. This is also my first time incubating eggs. One pipped and had it's beak sticking out and naturally I left him alone. He remained like this for 24 hours and then in the morning I found him dead he was...

I'm incubating 6 magpie ducks eggs, all of which have been fertilized and were growing healthily. They are all 9 days old. This morning we had a power cut and the eggs were without heat for about 4 hours. I did what could, closing the air vents, putting a towel on it, etc. When the power came...