I'm not sure. I know that the air cells in the eggs I bought were the same size as my verifiable fresh eggs from my own hens. So I would assume that they were fairly fresh eggs. I again come back to wondering if it is in the care of the parents. Although the places I got eggs from, appeared...
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2 different places. Small hobby breeders in my area in Ontario, here
Divon 80, I have good luck with babies I bought as well, I was referring to starting with hatching eggs.
I was wondering if anybody else has noticed this.
I have incubated and hatched maybe 20 Muscovy ducklings this year.
ALL of the eggs then resulting ducklings that have come from my hens are doing wonderfully, very large and healthy.
The ducklings from the eggs I bought(they were not shipped...