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

[Kiki]

@Wickedchicken6 ...see this one from last night?

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[Morrigan]

Thinking out loud here.

Next time, I wonder if it is better to let the eggs rest a bit and slowly bring them up to temperature before candling and messing with them too much. I've read that when eggs get chilled, they don't necessarily die, but the embryo goes into some kind of stasis. Maybe it's better to give them a chance to come fully out of that in a relatively quiet environment.

Don't really know, however. You are in pretty uncharted waters with these balutties.

 

[jadip4]

Maybe more eggs next time just to increase your odds??

 

[debid]

So how long do bluebirds incubate? I swear I only saw 3 yesterday. View attachment 1326603

12-14 days once the female stays on the nest. She lays whatever her full clutch would be (4-6 eggs is typical for a bluebird, one per day) and then she'll begin incubation. The male will come to the nest and feed her so she can stay put. Both participate in feeding the chicks. The chicks fledge in 2.5-3 weeks and then they'll often start a second brood in the same, successful site. I've heard of them producing third broods in places with a long enough season.

I put up a homemade box by my kitchen window and it was claimed immediately last year. As in, I was putting the ladder away and saw them in and out looking it over. They chose it again this year. Mine doesn't have a peek side so I'm limited to watching them coming and going. I believe they have reached the incubation stage as I didn't see her at all this morning.

 

[Kiki]

Thinking out loud here.

Next time, I wonder if it is better to let the eggs rest a bit and slowly bring them up to temperature before candling and messing with them too much. I've read that when eggs get chilled, they don't necessarily die, but the embryo goes into some kind of stasis. Maybe it's better to give them a chance to come fully out of that in a relatively quiet environment.

Don't really know, however. You are in pretty uncharted waters with these balutties.

The first time (Eggs S and W):
Came home.
Sat in fridge for a few hours.
Then sat on the counter for a few hours while I figured out ghetto bator.


Should I not have put them straight into a warm bator when I got these 3 home?

 

[biophiliac]

I'm thinking this week's shipment is no bueno.

agree

 

[Wickedchicken6]

@Wickedchicken6 ...see this one from last night?

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I hadn't. That's the one not moving this morning?

 

[Morrigan]

I'd be tempted to go back to the Man and candle a few more eggs just to see if some of the eggs look better.

If some are still nicely veined after sitting another day in the store, they may be hardier or further along ducklings.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

The first time (Eggs S and W):
Came home.
Sat in fridge for a few hours.
Then sat on the counter for a few hours while I figured out ghetto bator.


Should I not have put them straight into a warm bator when I got these 3 home?

The time my broody got on the wrong nest, the eggs were cold. It was 6 C in the chicken coop and there was no movement and they all looked dead.

I put her on them, stayed up and checked them in 2 hours. The were all swishing around in there. That wouldn't be much different.

 

[Kiki]

The time my broody got on the wrong nest, the eggs were cold. It was 6 C in the chicken coop and there was no movement and they all looked dead.

I put her on them, stayed up and checked them in 2 hours. The were all swishing around in there. That wouldn't be much different.

These 3 have been in the bator since about noon yesterday.

I was not able to fool with them much yesterday.