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I'm incubating duck eggs. This is the second time I've attempted. The incubator was cleaned and the duck eggs were wiped off with a dry cloth before placing them in the incubator. I had 8 and all of them were viable but on day 17 it appears only one still has vessels and is moving. The others...

if I hatch 2 batches of duck eggs in the same incubator a week apart, what do I do during lockdown? I'm going to raise the humidity but what about turning the younger eggs. My automatic turner is either the whole incubator or not at all and I've been hand turning thus far. A second incubator is...

this is my first time incubating eggs laying down the entire time. What should a candle of it look like at day 12? My egg is developing but to me it looks strange. I don't have a picture but can someone post pictures of yours at this more developed stage so I can compare. It looks like the yolk...

I have an egg in the incubator that Never developed but I left it just in case. It's sibling of the same age is pretty far along. So today is day 13 and I decided it was definitely rime to call it quits on the dud. So I candle to make sure I'm removing the correct egg and there is a ring of red...

So our duck has been laying eggs in her nest over the past week and a half. The last times she laid in this same nest something took her eggs so since it was the same nest in the same spot we decided we would take her eggs in and incubate them. We've been replacing them with golf balls so she...

This baby made it to 23 days but now I'm wondering if it didn't survive because it was a double Yolker?

We just finished incubating 2 eggs that were fertilized but didn't make it to the end but then that same day those 2 were appeared to hatch we found another egg in her nest and put it in the incubator. It never developed any. About 2 weeks after that we found 4 more in her nest. Today thay are...

So we have ducks that are two years apart. The older ones have been laying eggs in a nest. The younger ones are just turning 4 months old. Yesterday I found an egg in our sandbox and it was tiny. It's smaller than a chicken egg but the shell feels fully formed and it's the correct shape. Is this...

hey all! I am currently incubating two duck eggs. One is not looking promising but the other one should hatch by the end of this week. Well my duck just laid another egg and I'm thinking about incubating it but if it hatches it will be one month younger than my current one. Will they get along...

Help! I am incubating duck eggs for the first time. I went to start lockdown but one of the eggs was an early bloomer and already had an external pip. By the time we turned off the rotator, filled the humidity wells, and put the egg back in the incubator it had been out for about 3 minutes. It...

so I haven't quite found a topic like what I'm looking for. My duck is laying eggs. She is on day 8 but yesterday all of the eggs were eaten. This morning she laid another egg in the same nest and I would like to save it since predators now know where the nest is. My question is, since she is...

I have some pet ducks. Every year they lay eggs and every year they are eaten by foxes, raccoons, Hawks, eagles, snakes, turtles, and any number of other things and I'm sick and tired of it. I believe her clutch was taken just last night but I was out of town. So I have a couple questions...