6 little eggs.

[Knighstar679]

Yesterday 6 little eggs came in my mail. They are Muscovy eggs. They seem like they made it through shipping ok but I might have one that could be scrambled.

The incubators are going and I just have to decide which one I want to use. I am excited to see what happens with these eggs.

Also I think I am horribly addicted to hatching.

 

[casportpony]

Congrats and good luck!

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

I am very interested and will keep in eye on this thread. I'm on day 32 waiting for a pep from the one that looks strong. We had 9 power outages during this hatch and I lost 3 late. Interested to see how it goes for you. The eggs I received from eBay weighted between 72g -82g my little 72g'er is the one still moving. Did you end up ordering from the same seller? Also could you keep a log of your humidity, curious what % your going to run the entire time

 

[Knighstar679]

I am very interested and will keep in eye on this thread. I'm on day 32 waiting for a pep from the one that looks strong. We had 9 power outages during this hatch and I lost 3 late. Interested to see how it goes for you. The eggs I received from eBay weighted between 72g -82g my little 72g'er is the one still moving. Did you end up ordering from the same seller? Also could you keep a log of your humidity, curious what % your going to run the entire time

I did end up going with the same person. I have found that dry incubation worked really well for me. That will put me around 28- 36% humidity. But I will keep this thread updated.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

Nice, I ended up doing pretty much the same. My humidity stayed in the 30-40% range with no added water. Eggs lost 10g which was about 14% weight. They all lost almost the same amount even tho some where larger.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

@Knighstar679 good and bad news, good news had 3 eggs develop into good looking little ducklings. The bad news I worked 2 (14hr) shifts Friday and Saturday, plus 12hours today and missed internal pep and didn't get to crank up the humidity . So I lost them all. I opened up 2 so far and can see i have Amber fuild in air sac and can see where they broke thru membrane. I believe if I had more experience and paid better attention I would have had 3 beautiful ducks .. instead just lessons learned the hard way

 

[Miss Lydia]

So sorry

 

[Knighstar679]

I am so sorry to hear.

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

Thanks I learned a lot for next season. Will be trying again In Spring.

 

[Knighstar679]

I maybe crazy working on hatching out eggs this late in the year.

I just set the eggs today so in 35 days we will see exactly how crazy. But I should know if any that won’t take in a week. Hopefully it’s the same with Muscovy as the rest. I decided to put them in my homemade incubator too. So I will be hand turning these guys.