Am i able to incubate a Muscovy Duck egg?

[JanetMarie]

I candle chicken eggs at 7 days. For muscovy since the incubation time is longer I would wait a few days more to candle. Probably at 7 days.

 

[Paterino Del Galaxia]

Ok thanks!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Without using poop or some other heavy organic material in which bacteria can work at breaking down matter and generate heat nothing will happen.

If you want to really try and be a success you need to get over the stigma of poop or thinking bacteria may get into the egg. Without sufficient heat the egg can not hatch.

That heat has to come from an outside source, a body of an animal, energy source, gas, oil, electric and so forth. Birds are not reptiles, whose eggs can lay in the ground at a certain temp for an unknown period until they soak up enough heat to hatch.

Birds have a finite period of time in which they develop and hatch. Dry leaves, or sand will not do it. You will need a large pile of manure or material to digest and produce enough heat. A small bucket will run out of energy in no time.

If you want to surround the eggs in sand inside a huge pile of manure it might work, but then you are suffocating the bird with lack of O2.

If you cannot have a heat source at night. Maybe incubate during the day and place them in a large bucket of 100 degree sand at night covered with insulating material to prevent excessive heat loss.

Otherwise, you might as well lie them on the counter and hope for a 100 degree heat spell that lasts a month.

 

[Paterino Del Galaxia]

OH THAT IDEA OF YOURS WAS WONDERFUL! I would separate the manure to heat up the sand! And i would place the eggs partially submerged into the sand so it can still beathe! CORRECT! But will the egg still be viable after 4 days? It has been 4 days im trying to incubate them on a leaf invubator.... How should i know? I am worried if they are still alive....... In addition, i live in the Philippines.....

 

[Paterino Del Galaxia]

@duluthralphie

 

[Paterino Del Galaxia]

Sorry @JanetMarie, my patience blew up like a bomb and i candled the egg.... Voila! An embryo has been developing.. I just don't understand why the other egg has a larger embryo than the other one......

 

[HelplessHomeSteader]

Could you heat rocks by a fire and use there warmth as well? I love the compost idea. Warm bottles of water and use to heat box and nesting materials? Can you wrap box in something to create layers to trap air in-between like you would to stay warm in winter while leaving a way for fresh air to get in? Solar oven style incubator lined with rocks to hold heat at night? Green vegetation gives of mositure and some heat while it rots. How small is the box and how committed are you. The human body genarates alot of heat...armpits and we'll...

 

[duluthralphie]

Could you heat rocks by a fire and use there warmth as well? I love the compost idea. Warm bottles of water and use to heat box and nesting materials? Can you wrap box in something to create layers to trap air in-between like you would to stay warm in winter while leaving a way for fresh air to get in? Solar oven style incubator lined with rocks to hold heat at night? Green vegetation gives of mositure and some heat while it rots. How small is the box and how committed are you. The human body genarates alot of heat...armpits and we'll...

Rocks are an interesting idea, if they did not overheat them.

The armpits would be too cold. Unless your willing to catch a virus and run a fever for 3 weeks.

You would need to get the eggs inside your body cavity to get close to warm enough... do you know a surgeon willing to slice you open put the eggs in and three weeks later do it over to remove the eggs?

 

[Paterino Del Galaxia]

Well, im kinda worried. Why? Although the veining is excellent, i see no movement......

 

[JanetMarie]

Sorry @JanetMarie, my patience blew up like a bomb and i candled the egg.... Voila! An embryo has been developing.. I just don't understand why the other egg has a larger embryo than the other one......

It's your choice to candle as often as you want to. Some people candle every day! I just don't because I don't want to open the incubator too much, and time. When I was new to incubating, I did candle more often.