hatching duck eggs

  1. GeoGreyWolf

    Pekin X Swedish Cross Breeds

    Doing our first time incubating eggs and we have 3 signs of life.. The mother is a Pekin and the Father is a Blue Swedish. I am curious to see peoples photos of their feathered Pekin X Swedish cross breeds.. If you have them please show. Looking forward to see if i can hatch these 3 eggs out...
    • GeoGreyWolf
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    • cross breed hatching duck eggs pekin swedish blue duck
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  2. H

    Incubating Muscovy eggs

    Needing to know any information about hatching shipped Muscovy Duck eggs in an incubator. Even unsuccessful hatch-rates and their possible theories. Obviously successful hatching advice would be much appreciated. Any small detail will make a huge difference. Humidity, temperature, days you...
  3. Table4Six

    Call Duck Hatching Eggs

    So I'm planning on buying call duck hatching eggs sometime this spring. I'm buying from someone on ebay who has excellent quality crested and regular calls. I'm going to get around 8-12 eggs. This will be my first time raising call ducks and was wondering if anyone had any useful advice to...
  4. GeoGreyWolf

    My Duck Story so far... Help Needed

    Hello all I am new to the site. Figured I would tell my luck on raising ducks. About three years ago, my wife and I got 2 Peking ducks to raise (she has raised ducks prior, me never). We had a success with them and let them free range in our backyard, one night something dug under the...
    • GeoGreyWolf
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    • ducks. hatching duck eggs help needed muscovey ducklings muscovy ducks pekin pekin duck swedish blue swedish duck
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    • Forum: Ducks
  5. J

    Hatching Baby Indian Runners

    Hi All, I am very new here and have wanted ducks for the longest time. I'm buying some fertile Indian Runner Duck eggs soon to be incubated. I have heard something about turning the eggs in the hatcher up to five times a day? Is this correct? I know chickens are twice a day so this really...
    • JustAbbey
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    • ducks first time first time hatching hatching hatching duck eggs
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  6. K

    Hello

    Hello from Campbellsville, KY . I'm a new member and I'm happy to be here. I'm fairly new to chichens and ducks. I have about 50 chickens and 15 ducks. Breeds I have at this time is barbezieux, lavender orpington, sebrights and some barntyard mix. I found backyardchickens.com all over the...
  7. C

    Duckling with dried up yolk sac

    Hi all, I have a duckling who just hatched this morning at 8.25am (the last of 5 eggs to hatch) he had unabsorbed yolk still attched to his belly and it was gooey and yellowy/pink. I didn't know what to do so took the other ducklings out of the incubator and left him to recover. The yolk is...
    • CkF1001
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    • duckling hatching duck eggs khaki campbell
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  8. Samigirl

    Keeping nest safe & hatching questions

    Good morning, we are new to the whole duck thing, we have 3 females & 1 male, over the last 6 months they have had many nest and sat alot but it seems at about 2/3 weeks a preadtor gets all the eggs at once, it's so sad. We've set live traps, tried deterent, and nothing works. 2 of them have a...
    • Samigirl
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    • hatching duck eggs predator control sitting duck
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    • Forum: Ducks
  9. Doc McCluckins

    Shipped call duck eggs, broody hen, detached air cells AHHH

    Yesterday I received 6 call duck eggs from e-bay. My intentions were to place them under a broody hen per the advice of the seller as calls are harder to hatch via incubator and I have a hen dying to hatch something. Upon arrival I candled them and discovered all but one have detached air cells...
  10. clucknquack

    Muscovy eggs for trade/sale

    Hello all! Would anyone be interested in doing an egg swap? I have Muscovy ducks. The father is black pied. The mothers are blue pied and chocolate pied. I want some new genetics and new colors to add to my little flock. I really want all black/wild type, self blue (or any self color)... But...
  11. G

    Assist w duck egg that pipped (external) over 19 hours ago

    Sorry, nervous first-time "parent"! So, I need to know how much to assist w a duck egg that pipped (externally) 19.5 hours ago. I just removed the shell, not that inner membrane, to the edge of where the air sac was (I had the foresight to draw that before the duck pipped). The ducking pipped...
    • Gaiatribute
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    • assisted hatch assisted hatching assisting assisting hatch duck eggs hatching duck eggs hatching ducks hatching eggs
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  12. harmesonfarm

    Duck eggs piping day 21??

    hi there, new to ducks. I have 9 cayuga eggs in the incubator for my 2nd hatch of them...first hatch they pipped and hatched day 29...this 2nd hatch they have pipped and are rocking on day 21!!! Has this happened before to anyone?? I'm almost wondering if there was a mistake with the breeder...
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    • early hatch for duck eggs hatching duck eggs help for incubating duck eggs incubating incubating duck eggs
    • Replies: 7
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