Ok.....Here I go....
Mixed Breed Eggs....Welsh Drake and Possibly my Saxony Hen and Buff hen? Green eggs and White ones.......First two collected on December 21st.....Put right under Broody Hen.......
I had my Ducks breeding like wildfire......Had Two Broody Chickens.....Randomly I gave them my Duck eggs as two were laid each day...Stupid of me I know, I should of collected the eggs and started them all on the same day.....The oldest egg has a Duckling bouncing around and enjoying itself in the egg......My One hen kept kicking out eggs so those ones froze.......I pulled out my Incubator and put all eggs inside.....Got more crazy...wait for this story...I then collected more eggs.....Very random hatch dates....I spoke with hmmm?.....Darn I cannot remember the one persons name?? I will mention both later who helped me greatly.....lol
Got it....
@Yorkshire Coop and @Sally Sunshine
My real question is this......I was advised to give my Broody the newest eggs and keep my others in the bator that are closest in hatch dates......Sadly I candled my Eggs and the only one that is thriving is on day 17....Other Duck eggs are not showing embryos but have cell masses.....Now I wonder if the eggs that hen kicked out were the others that were older...?.....Anyways, should I just toss out all these eggs in the incubator and hatch out this one egg and wait to see what my Broody hen can do in the next couple of weeks?
Also I was wondering what date to put this little pup into lock down for a Duck egg?.....Humidity is at 50% today is day 17....
Totally confused on the farm........
UPDATE #1........
I candled my eggs under my Broody Hen last night,(Sunday night)...The 3 Duck eggs had zero development...The 5 Chicken eggs are doing great...That is a plus....Fingers crossed....
My Duck eggs in the incubator, 9 in total. The Bouncer is doing great and two others are developing nicely....The other four I will candle again by Wednesday to see if they are developing or duds?....
This is my plan, if I should change it, please advise me....I plan to keep these Duck eggs in the incubator till the Bouncer needs to go into lock down. I was thinking of popping these other Duck eggs under my Broody till the Bouncer hatches and then putting them back into the incubator to finish the hatch...?......Does that sound like a good plan??....The only reason I think I want to pop the Duck eggs back into the incubator is because it is not warm at all in my garage and worry they will freeze if I leave with the Broody hen to hatch...I will leave the Chicken Chicks with her and she can hatch out those....I will be Brooding the Chicks indoors and giving my Hen a well deserved break.....
I sure have learned a lot by my mistakes..lol.....I feel like my next attempt at hatching will go a lot smoother and I think I will be using my Broody Hens to hatch out for me more than my incubator in the future.......
Thank you everyone for the advise....I will post pictures if or when I have success....Lock down for the Bouncer is on Friday.....
Cheers!..........
Mixed Breed Eggs....Welsh Drake and Possibly my Saxony Hen and Buff hen? Green eggs and White ones.......First two collected on December 21st.....Put right under Broody Hen.......
I had my Ducks breeding like wildfire......Had Two Broody Chickens.....Randomly I gave them my Duck eggs as two were laid each day...Stupid of me I know, I should of collected the eggs and started them all on the same day.....The oldest egg has a Duckling bouncing around and enjoying itself in the egg......My One hen kept kicking out eggs so those ones froze.......I pulled out my Incubator and put all eggs inside.....Got more crazy...wait for this story...I then collected more eggs.....Very random hatch dates....I spoke with hmmm?.....Darn I cannot remember the one persons name?? I will mention both later who helped me greatly.....lol
Got it....
@Yorkshire Coop and @Sally Sunshine
My real question is this......I was advised to give my Broody the newest eggs and keep my others in the bator that are closest in hatch dates......Sadly I candled my Eggs and the only one that is thriving is on day 17....Other Duck eggs are not showing embryos but have cell masses.....Now I wonder if the eggs that hen kicked out were the others that were older...?.....Anyways, should I just toss out all these eggs in the incubator and hatch out this one egg and wait to see what my Broody hen can do in the next couple of weeks?
Also I was wondering what date to put this little pup into lock down for a Duck egg?.....Humidity is at 50% today is day 17....
Totally confused on the farm........
UPDATE #1........
I candled my eggs under my Broody Hen last night,(Sunday night)...The 3 Duck eggs had zero development...The 5 Chicken eggs are doing great...That is a plus....Fingers crossed....
My Duck eggs in the incubator, 9 in total. The Bouncer is doing great and two others are developing nicely....The other four I will candle again by Wednesday to see if they are developing or duds?....
This is my plan, if I should change it, please advise me....I plan to keep these Duck eggs in the incubator till the Bouncer needs to go into lock down. I was thinking of popping these other Duck eggs under my Broody till the Bouncer hatches and then putting them back into the incubator to finish the hatch...?......Does that sound like a good plan??....The only reason I think I want to pop the Duck eggs back into the incubator is because it is not warm at all in my garage and worry they will freeze if I leave with the Broody hen to hatch...I will leave the Chicken Chicks with her and she can hatch out those....I will be Brooding the Chicks indoors and giving my Hen a well deserved break.....
I sure have learned a lot by my mistakes..lol.....I feel like my next attempt at hatching will go a lot smoother and I think I will be using my Broody Hens to hatch out for me more than my incubator in the future.......
Thank you everyone for the advise....I will post pictures if or when I have success....Lock down for the Bouncer is on Friday.....
Cheers!..........
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