ljmastercraft
In the Brooder
- Dec 29, 2023
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Hi -
Noob here - Know nothing about duck eggs, but I do know how to enjoy duck at a good restaurant.
Had a family friend who discovered a Muscovy duck sitting on a nest right by her back door. She chased the bird away, and was going to throw the eggs out but I found out and told her to keep them, and drove over.
Couldn't bear to throw them away, and couldn't find the mother to relocate (they back up to a large pond), so I took the eggs, bought an incubator, and am going to try to hatch them. My sister lives a few hours away and is on a large part of (several acres of forest) land that includes a pond. They have a mosquito problem, so she said she'd take the ducks and give them a new life at her pond.
Right now the eggs are in an incubator. This Saturday will be 7 days since I took the eggs, but I don't know how long they've been in the nest prior - I would imagine no more than a week.
Keeping temperature 99.5 degrees, humidity 50-54%. It's got an auto-rotate function. I bought 25lbs of duck starter food (higher protein apparently), and my plan is once they hatch to keep them indoors (i have a little enclosure i built out of cardboard, with a heating element), and after a few weeks (2-3) let them roam around outside (i'll build a chicken wire enclosure in my back yard, with a little shallow kids pool and ramps so they can get in and out)
Looking for any suggestions. I'm trying to do the right thing here, but I'm really enjoying having little ducklings
Attaching pictures of the mama muscovy (before the neighbor chased it away), the nest, the eggs in the incubator, and the incubator itself.
Noob here - Know nothing about duck eggs, but I do know how to enjoy duck at a good restaurant.
Had a family friend who discovered a Muscovy duck sitting on a nest right by her back door. She chased the bird away, and was going to throw the eggs out but I found out and told her to keep them, and drove over.
Couldn't bear to throw them away, and couldn't find the mother to relocate (they back up to a large pond), so I took the eggs, bought an incubator, and am going to try to hatch them. My sister lives a few hours away and is on a large part of (several acres of forest) land that includes a pond. They have a mosquito problem, so she said she'd take the ducks and give them a new life at her pond.
Right now the eggs are in an incubator. This Saturday will be 7 days since I took the eggs, but I don't know how long they've been in the nest prior - I would imagine no more than a week.
Keeping temperature 99.5 degrees, humidity 50-54%. It's got an auto-rotate function. I bought 25lbs of duck starter food (higher protein apparently), and my plan is once they hatch to keep them indoors (i have a little enclosure i built out of cardboard, with a heating element), and after a few weeks (2-3) let them roam around outside (i'll build a chicken wire enclosure in my back yard, with a little shallow kids pool and ramps so they can get in and out)
Looking for any suggestions. I'm trying to do the right thing here, but I'm really enjoying having little ducklings
Attaching pictures of the mama muscovy (before the neighbor chased it away), the nest, the eggs in the incubator, and the incubator itself.