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yes, duck eggs seem to have more bloom on them than chicken eggs. My Muscovy are even worse than the WH; theirs feel like they are dipped in wax.

This bird looks a lot like my drakes.... My girls have much less color on their backs than this but my boys have more on their chest....

you cannot candle any egg before incubation to determine fertility. You can candle shipped eggs to check on how messed up the air cell is and for hair line cracks. the only way to check for fertility before a few days of incubation is to crack open the egg. Look closely at the yolk, turn it...

Oh yes, very easy to do, until the feed bill arrives ;-0

I have a vintage redwood, about a 300 egger if I really packed them in there. The last owner bypassed the original wafer thermostats and put in a GQF electronic one. It holds perfect at 99 unless it runs completely dry, then the humidity drops to about 10% and the temp slowly creeps upward. But...

exact same dry hatch method, with high humidity during the last few days for hatching. I have been having 90-100% hatches on WH this year running 20-30% humidity first 3 weeks, then up it to about 35/40 at the beginning of the 4th week, up to 65% as soon as I see the first pip. This has been...

I have one pair of WH, a silver drake and a gold duck. Recently mamma was broody and hatched a dozen. My girl is too light without enough fawn, but I have a trio that hatched in Jan and those girls look like they will have plenty of color. I'm only keeping one tho. I didn't realize ducks would...