duck eggs

  1. P

    Will my ducks lay this year

    Hi everyone, my three khaki campbells ducks hatched April 20th 1 boy and 2 girls, I’ve notice this week that they’ve started to display mating behaviours and wondered if this could indicate that they will begin to lay anytime soon? That said, it’s nearly September and I wondered if that means...
    • Penfoldducks
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    • duck eggs ducks khaki campbells lay laying
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. M

    Duck Egg Incubation 6h Power Outage Day 23 - 20C Temp - Looking for input

    Hey, title puts it pretty clearly, but for more details, I'm using the Brinsea Mini II EX incubator to incubate some duck eggs, everything had been going perfectly up until last night, when, due to an odd electrical fuse setup in our home, we lost poweer to the incubator ~01:30, I'd had a late...
  3. P

    Duck egg grey bruise ring

    one of my duck eggs on day 24 has a grey ring around the outside of the shell. It lines up with where the airspace is. I can also hear tapping coming from inside l? What should I do
  4. chicken mother

    Does it matter what kind of drake I add to my flock?

    I have 4 welsh harlequin hens and 2 silver appleyard hens. I want a drake for the purpose of fertilizing eggs. I was worried about the sizing of the ducks. Is it hazardous to my ducks if I get a heavy breed? And if I get a light breed, will it be able to fertilize the silver appleyards? Would an...
    • chicken mother
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    • drake duck breeds duck eggs ducks silver appleyard welsh harlequin
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    • Forum: Ducks
  5. M

    Dead embryo? - Duck Eggs 25 days

    Hi there! I rescued a couple of Mallard duck eggs from my garden a few weeks back. The mother had been sitting on them for about a week before the nest was attacked (these two eggs were the only two left intact). The eggs seemed to be doing well in our incubator up until today, when I checked...
  6. P

    Duck eggs day 28 yet to pip

    Hi everyone, My duck eggs are on day 28 of their incubation and I haven’t seen any pips yet at all. When I last candled them on day 25 they were all well developed and moving lots
  7. Andypapeisaduck

    Duck Eggs Internal pip but no External pip. Should I Be Worried?

    Hello BYC! I’m a first time Hatcher of our pekin/mallard or Mallard ducklings. They are being naturally hatched and are 33 days old, there is life in everyone(12) and almost all of them are internally piped, one of them piped yesterday about when I got home about 19 hours ago or earlier, I don’t...
  8. S

    Day 31 is it time to help?

    I incubated 3 mandarin duck eggs and 2 call duck eggs 31 days, 2 hours and 40 min ago. They have been trying to get out for 2 days has their shells continue to move when I speak to them through their incubator. I just candled them cause I needed to see what was going on. Eggs were shipped so all...
  9. MotherDucker3

    Hi, I'm new here :). First time incubating eggs and concerned with humidity

    Hello, I am new to incubating eggs. Currently I have 4 duck eggs in my EZ simply incubator. This incubator does not have a build in hygrometer so I bought one to try and keep track. From what I have read online, humidity for the first few weeks should be about 55%. I have been having issues...
  10. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Buying incubator for duck eggs

    Looking into an incubator for duck eggs. I obviously want something that will work and not break but I also want to spend around $100 or preferably less as we are just starting out and will only be using it for our own purposes and not constantly having eggs in it. Does anyone have...
  11. pteroo

    Help with magpie duck eggs

    (Re-posting in this specific duck forum)
    • pteroo
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    • air cell duck eggs ducks incubation incubation advice magpie duck
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    • Forum: Ducks
  12. CherryCord

    The need to knows on duck laying?

    So my Pekin duck Sweetpea just layed her very first egg this morning. She is about 7 months old. I keep all my ducks in a big pen. I hadn't noticed her looking for a place to next until about a week ago. Yesterday I noticed she spent a lot of time in the corner if the pen and assumed she wanted...
  13. N

    Free Ducklings NJ (South Jersey)

    We have 4 wonderful, healthy Golden 300 ducklings that are 4 weeks old and need a new permanent home. Free to a good home. Please let me know if you’re interested! We’re located in South Jersey.
    • NJ4
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    • duck eggs ducklings ducks free golden 300 new jersey south jersey
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Missy020219

    Incubating duck and turkey eggs

    So I’m planning on incubating turkey and duck eggs in a few days and was wondering how some of you incubate them together?
  15. M

    I think I blew it. Now what?

    I have an incubator full of welsh harlequin eggs. This is my second time incubating. First time was with muscovys and it was a miserable failure. I decided to try again and try not to worry too much. I have the incubator set to 99.5 degrees and I try to keep the humidity between 50%-60% but...
  16. S

    Laying on eggs

    I posted about a week ago that my Khaki Campbell had a nest of eggs but hadn’t seen her sitting on them.. well last night we seen her sitting on them. We have a male Pekin that she is with.. is it possible these are going to hatch?
  17. S

    Nest of eggs

    We noticed these in the corner of their house.. we have a Pekin and a Rouen. Not sure how long these have been there. Will these hatch?
    • Selenasue
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    • duck eggs nest
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. Cassandra Lana

    A few hatching egg questions.

    Hello :) I have a few hatching egg questions. First can you tell if an egg is fertilized by candling it ? What should I look for ?(Duck eggs if that matters.) second how long can eggs stay out unicubated before they can’t be hatched? I am not personally hatching eggs but we are giving some to a...
  19. M

    Pipped wrong end, no membrane hole.Help!

    Hi, So this is my first time hatching duck eggs. I noticed one of the eggs had a hole in this morning it could have happened last night while I was sleeping but it seems to be in the wrong end. My air cells were a bit weird *being shipped even though I set them for over 24hrs) so I am not sure...
    • Mrs A
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    • breathing duck eggs ducks hatching hatching help help wanted malposition membrane pipped egg
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Ducks
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    Sold my first dozen eggs...6 duck and 6 chicken. Woo-hoo!
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