Ok so I’m in a weird situation. I have three wild mallards that I hatched under my broody hens. A friend found an abandoned nest (mama duck left with seven successfully hatched babies) and she brought me three live eggs. I didn’t know it was against the law.
Now I have three that I would LOVE...
below is attached picture of a duck egg. My ladies have been laying on their eggs from day 1.. when can you see the veins in a egg?? Ive read online you should start to see them by at least day 4?? And movement by day 7?? But its been a while and I haven't seen anything to let me know its...
Hello! My husband found a duck egg on our dock on March 31st and we decided to try and hatch it. We rigged up an incubator with a basket, a light and our meat thermometer. I google info so we kept the temp at 99.5, turned the egg several times a day and moistened it. Day 26 we lowered the temp...
Hey I need some advice. It seems as though one of my mallard duck eggs have turned a bit gray. It doesn’t smell. I tried canceling it and it looks like it is about to hatch but it still have another 5-6 days to go. Any advice?
Thanks
hi folks
This year my husband's kindergarten class would like to hatch mallards but I have not had much luck finding a place to order eggs. Any help would be much appreciated. We have successfully hatched and raised chickens for about 6 years.
Karyn