➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[PirateGirl]

I found this site...

https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/hatch-patterns.html

It goes through incubation/egg development by day. Check out the day 8-13 section. I think your eggs might be near the end of this phase of development or maybe the beginning of the next stage. It's an easy read with pictures.

 

[Xarinn]

I found this site...

https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/hatch-patterns.html

It goes through incubation/egg development by day. Check out the day 8-13 section. I think your eggs might be near the end of this phase of development or maybe the beginning of the next stage. It's an easy read with pictures.

That's what I was thinking too

 

[Kiki]

It's been a bad two weeks though. Had a wake and funeral to go to in the past two days.

I am so sorry for your loss.

Do you have Asian stores in your area?

 

[Kiki]

Looking at your pictures, I noticed that the shells on your chicken eggs are fairly dark brown. The duck eggs were white, right? It's going to be harder to see veins with a dark egg, so don't give up yet!

Yes...these eggs are brown.
But...I don't think part two started off as good as the original experiment.

 

[Kiki]

I found this site...

https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/hatch-patterns.html

It goes through incubation/egg development by day. Check out the day 8-13 section. I think your eggs might be near the end of this phase of development or maybe the beginning of the next stage. It's an easy read with pictures.

I think YOU are ready to incubate.
You have already done soo much homework!
Thank you.
Looking at this now.

 

[PirateGirl]

I think YOU are ready to incubate.
You have already done soo much homework!
Thank you.
Looking at this now.

I think if/when I end up with a broody I will let her set some eggs, but no incubator yet. Besides, I don't know if I can bring myself to give all the little quackers away and I'm maxed out on space!

 

[Kiki]

Quick Recap.

I bought 2 duck eggs for a taste test and refrigerated them.
When it was time to cook them for the taste test I candled just for the heck of it.
I saw air cells.
I quickly threw together a ghetto bator.
THEN we figured out they were BALUT eggs!
I incubated the 2 eggs, S and W, successfully for 5 days.
Ghetto bator over heated and the eggs died.
I eggtopsied them.
I was gifted a real bator.
I bought 4 chicken balut eggs.


I do not think the chicken balut eggs are alive/were alive when I bought them.

I am going to leave them in the bator over night just in case.


I don't think I am going to be able to just let this experiment go.
I am thinking I am going to go back and visit the man on Thursday for 2 more duck eggs.

What I need to figure out is if I am really going to be able to let the ducks go to their new home. I won't be able to keep them and I am 99% sure I will be able to hatch them out.

OR to I completely stop operation balut and go straight to quail?
DECISIONS

 

[Kiki]

I want to try to list all of the things this experiment has taught me, but I just can't.
There are SO MANY things I have learned.

I am extremely happy all of this happened.

 

[PirateGirl]

Since quail plans were in the works I think this has been great practice in things like calibration and working on temperature and humidity!

 

[featherhead007]

I think if/when I end up with a broody I will let her set some eggs, but no incubator yet. Besides, I don't know if I can bring myself to give all the little quackers away and I'm maxed out on space!

Quack!