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Hey yinepu, been awhile, huh? Glad you are on here. I have only four laying including one that just started. I have ten ducks and three drakes and soon my incubator will be full, especially when all ten start laying. So far, fertility has been very good. Most of the Muscovy eggs are around...

The best way to incubate Muscovy eggs is using the broody mother. The next best thing is another broody Muscovy duck. Next comes a broody chicken or duck of any species, but you must remember that Muscovy eggs takes 35 days to hatch, quite a bit longer than chicken eggs and a week longer...

I have sixty some eggs of the French White Muscovy strain in my incubator now and am now adding 20+ more every Tuesday. My first batch which was small since they just started to lay is due to hatch on the 7th of this month with weekly hatchings thereafter. So far all have candled ok with the...

yinepu, Have you access to any fertile Ocellated Turkey eggs?............ Bob

I now have 11 Embden eggs in the incubator which I wouldn't bet a nickel on them being fertile, but just to be sure, they are in there. I also just added 6 Muscovy eggs from my last years hatch which are just starting to lay. Now those may be fertile as I've seen a lot of action in their pen...

Hi Lacrystol, What are you hatching that you consistently get 95-100% hatch rate ? I'm definitely open to suggestions as I do not pretend to know it all and if I can learn a new or better hatching procedure, I'm all ears. Please post what specie you hatch with such luck and how you do it...

Kathy, I can't honestly answer if they are bigger or not. Mine are just starting to lay and probably haven't grown "out" to potential, but I do know they make a much cleaner looking carcass than dark Muscovies. And, for they most part they are prettier than the wild looking Muscovys in my...

As I understand it.....A few, not just any white Muscovy have been genetically improved in France for a superior duck that is larger and all white in coloration (this makes it better looking processed duck, with more breast meat, etc. They were imported from France to a place in PA and a few...

I have 11 of the "French" White Muscovy Ducks, my very favorite breed of duck (and I've raised a couple of hundred Mandarins and still favor the Muscovy) and they (or maybe just one of them) are starting to lay their first eggs and I hope to get some fertile clutch's as I would like to raise...

Thanks yinepu ! One could learn what may have taken years from your hatching directions. I learned and my hatch rate has been much better and I haven't changed incubators, just the way I do it. Reminds me, I have goose eggs to turn..... Bob

You must do what works for you. What works for me may not work for you. Once you take the eggs away from the nest, YOU are assuming the role of Mother Nature and even if you were a chicken, mistakes happen. What I have posted are only suggestions and the way I do it, but then I'm not a...

I will assume the brown spot is a stain and that is understandable IF it was there when you put the eggs in the incubator. I try not to wash my eggs unless it is just a have too case You really need to weigh and mark your eggs before incubation so you know exacts. I mark mine 1 thru ? on the...

First, we are discussing humidity, only one of several factors for a successful hatch. You must understand that an egg shell is porous meaning moisture can pass through the egg either from the inside out or from the outside in. It happens slowly but over the course of incubation time it can...

Oh yes Great One, I bow down to you o great teacher!! LOL. Yep, I know exactly how you feel about "lockdown" and I have followed you and am in total agreement and have been your disciple and have been voicing what I have learned from you. I never did follow the lockdown rule but I learned...

I think you may have hit the proverbial nail-on-the-head when you say it is a nice way to say "do not touch". I personally do not adhere to the "lockdown theory" and have successfully hatched chicken, pheasant, duck, turkey and goose eggs. I usually "dry incubate" and only raise the humidity...

I am curious as to what everyone thinks of "lockdown" and the reason behind it? Why do we lockdown at hatching?

There are several ways to control humidity (to a point), but your hatching day is fast approaching and soon you need to raise the humidity a bit and remember to keep your vents OPEN. Two of the things that kill full term ducks are: 1. Humidity was kept too high and ducklings are too big to...

That is fine and probably a good practice, (I do it, but I'm not the expert) but during the last days you must have fresh air circulation throughout your incubator. I have automatic turners but I also hand turn each egg once a day which means I have the door open every day so my closing the...

Another thing Michelle, it is extremely important to have good air circulation with some fresh air towards the end of the incubation just before and during pipping and hatching. I am not an advocate of "lockdown" as it makes no sense to me and I check eggs twice a day during this most critical...