Anyone having Scovie hatches??

[Goat_Walker]

My black pied hen is making a nest and currently has 11 eggs. SHe usually hatches between 20 and 23 for me though. Problem is I dont know if they are fertile or not. I did catch one of my 6 month old drakes "attempting" to mount her while i was feeding today.

So - with the average 40 degree weather, any luck on fertility?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! My young Muscovy girls started laying and I started setting eggs. Last weeks' eggs were not so good --- the only 3 fertile ones made it to to Day 35 and perished.
I have 2 Muscovy eggs in the hatcher now on Day 34 --- they were looking great when I moved them to hatcher. The Ancona eggs (Day 27) are almost all pipped, and I see some pips in the chicken eggs (Day 20), but nothing from the Muscovy eggs yet.

Lisa

 

[lovesduckies]

i have like 19 or 20 UNfertilized muscovy eggs

i wish i had hatching ones so i could try out my incubator i got for christmas

 

[Bleenie]

I just put the 25(black pied) I bought in the incubator. My girls wanted to "play" with them but not sit on them... just cover them up to mess with me, the brats.

 

[elizabethbinary]

I just got 10 ducklings!

No new eggs just yet but one of the new girls is eyeing my drake all shyly and sitting in the nest box lately.

 

[keeperofthehearth]

One of my girls started going broody last week but I keep taking the eggs and messing up the nests. WAY to cold here (real temp of -5.1 this morning) for them to be brooding. All they have to do is get off the nest for a few minutes and those eggs begin freezing up fast. Thaw this weekend with warmer temps in the forcast next week. Sooooo..... I will let them start building a clutch in the next week or two. COME ON SPRING!!!!!!

 

[PlumTuckered]

I wish I had some Scovie eggs to hatch, or even better I wish I had some scovie ducklings!!!!!

Michelle

 

[Caprice_Acres]

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Muscovies cover their eggs to protect them and keep them insulated from temperature variations.

 

[kuntrygirl]

So far this year, I have collected about 79 eggs. I have tooooooo many muscovy ducks right now, so I have been collecting some of the eggs. I don't want them to hatch too many. I currently have an order for 6 dozen hatching eggs. One of my muscovy girls is setting on about 20 eggs. I have 2 other girls who have layed eggs. One nest has 6 eggs and the other nest has 3 eggs. I am collecting everything else that they are laying and that is not marked. The others are laying eggs but I am collecting them. I am overloaded with muscvoys.

The girls hatched out about 60+ ducklings last year. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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If you were close to me, you could HAVE some eggs. I have too many!!!!!

I have never shipped any eggs before, so I wouldn't know where to start as far as wrapping and shipping. They would probably all be cracked when you received them because I would have no idea what I was doing.