duck eggs

  1. chickitychickity

    Ancona Ducks not laying

    Last year I got 5 female Ancona ducklings in April. I sold 2 of them and kept the other 3. They began to lay at the end of September and then quit at the end of November. They had straw in their coop throughout this time, but once I ran out of straw, I switched to shavings. I prefer shavings and...
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  2. sierraforest

    Stamp for Egg Carton?

    Asking for future reference (b/c I'm so excited that our ladies have started laying): Does anyone know of a place to buy an egg carton stamp from? I have a design created so I just need someone to make it into a stamp. I know I can search around Etsy and I've found sites like this one...
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  3. Bettyboop7499

    Duck is playing Hide & Seek...

    Hello BYC! Happy New Year! I haven't been on in awhile..sure have missed you all! So, among so many things going on on the farm I have been waiting FOREVER for my Pekin to start laying eggs, the Runners laid a few in late summer..then stopped. It got quite cold in October..I thought maybe...
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  4. sierraforest

    Excited to Have Duck Eggs!

    Our ladies laid their first eggs yesterday morning—given that these are our first ducks, we're very excited! And so many folks here on BYC have been helpful in responding to the threads I've posted over the past few months that I wanted to share some good news. The eggs were formed nicely and...
  5. Bobbie3504

    pekings on the Lake

    we've had ducks in the past, at the farm, but now we are on a private lake and have 3 pekings and 1 mallard (had 3 but a fox got 2 when they were young :-( ) Mallard is a Drake & mating with one of the Pekings. We have a Drake Peking and we THINK a hen peking (slow becoming sexually active & no...
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  6. BeccaV

    My Runner abandoned nest

    My runner duck has been sitting on eggs for 24 days. I noticed when she gets up to eat she's staying gone from the longer and longer. She's pretty much abandoned them completely at this point. I brought one inside and looked at it with a candle and it's moving around. What should I do?
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  7. Lyndssxo08

    Egg damaged right before expected internal pip

    Hi everyone, Ughhhh so let me first start off by saying I never let my husband usual touch any of my hatching eggs in my incubator but I was late getting off work tonight and one of my ducklings has hatched earlier and I told him it was a good time to remove it from the incubator and to leave...
  8. Hev1977

    Day 23 of hatching duck eggs

    Hi all, I'm completely new to this. I did my research, bought some eggs and followed all the advice. Unfortunately, my eggs were shipped, 4 out of 5 had detached/saddled air sacs and one had a crack!! I'm down to two viable eggs, one has a detached/saddle air sac, the other is fine. The...
  9. FathertoFeathers

    Can you tell a ducks age

    A few months ago I bought some ducks off of craigslist. One of them started laying for a few weeks then hasn't laid since. Then another one was laying pretty consistently for awhile then after some of the ducks died she hasn't played since. I know age can play a factor in laying as long as...
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  10. Beccazon

    Clutch of duck eggs...now what

    My KC or my Rouen girl has been laying now for about a month. I assume the KC as she is older by a week or so but that's my only reason. After the first 2 weeks or so of daily, she slowed...every other day maybe then twice a week. Only one this week. They got all new bedding and coop cleaned a...
  11. FathertoFeathers

    Will these eggs hatch?

    My dog killed two of my most favorite and best laying ducks but luckily I had some of their eggs. But I got their eggs right before I went out of town for ten days. During that time the people that were house sitting put the eggs in the fridge. Is it possible that the eggs could still hatch?
  12. FortCluck

    Incubator and incubating advice

    We are looking to incubate eggs in January but I really want to learn everything that I can before we jump into it. When you collect the fertile eggs do you just leave them out until it's time to incubate them? Is there a period of time that the eggs should sit out before you put them in the...
  13. WannaBeHillBilly

    Duck egg, pasta!

    As selling duck eggs here in West Virginia some kind of ducks, we decided to use the excess eggs to make some pasta: That's the result of ~1.5Kg of pasta dough, made with 10 duck-eggs. More food, made with duck eggs in my Album »Food made with duck eggs«.
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  14. S

    Ducks laying eggs with chickens

    Hi, weve had 5 chickens and 3 ducks (2 female and 1 male)for about 2 months in a large enclosure but only 1 shelter for all. All going great so far, the hens are laying great. The ducks have started laying (I presume fertilized eggs) on the same nest as the chicken eggs (that arent...
    • Sandfly45
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  15. A

    PLEASE HELP! Duck egg hasn't pipped air sac at all

    So i have a mixed batch of duck eggs that i put in the incubator the same day. They are all alive and have pipped through the air sac except for one. This one has looked differently when candling these 24 days in the sense that the others were dark near the air sac and this one i think might've...
  16. WannaBeHillBilly

    Another attempt to sell duck-eggs

    Hi Friends, i did not thought it would be so hard to sell duck eggs around Charleston, WV! In our first attempt on a farmer's market we barely broke even, just earned the money we'd paid for the table. I don't want to become stinky rich with duck-eggs, but it would be great if they'd pay the...
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  17. BReeder!

    Rouen ducks in Illinois

    Anybody have Rouen ducks in IL? Or even NW IN? I have 3 Rouens and 2 are looking like drakes. I really want 2 hens and 1 drake. I am willing to trade the extra drake for a hen if you have an extra in your flock, or buy a young Rouen hen. I could even hatch eggs if you have fertile Rouen eggs. My...
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  18. Meischay

    Found two eggs yesterday from our ducks

    So we had a really bad storm the other night and yesterday morning when I went to let our 4 month old ducks out their pen and there was a white blob in the middle of poo. I picked it up and realized it was an egg. I then looked to my left and there was another one buried in the hay. One was...
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  19. Fairywoodducks

    Duck pooped egg yolk out

    So I've attached a few photos of what appears to egg white and yolk. No shells. I have 3 girls that could be the culprits but I cant figure put which on because they are all acting 100% normal. They all laid eggs this morning with very hard shells. They have plenty of calcium in their diet, no...
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  20. J

    Duck eggs

    I had a duck sitting on eggs and hatched six of them when she got off the nest. There were still around 20 eggs in the nest. I took those eggs and put them in the incubator. Doing the math, if the six hatched at 28 days and the understanding duck eggs hatch between 28-35 days, I was on day 42...
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