Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[Amykins]

Re-candled my eggs tonight, it's day 8. Two look awesome, the middle one is super veiny but I can't locate the embryo. I hope it's not developing in a bad position. :/

 

[Lacrystol]

So, as all of you know, I have Perdy's first 6 eggs in the bator (we are on day 11). Well, she also has a clutch of 8 eggs and growing outside in her little nesting box in their coop

Two questions: 1) when will she start to set? I mean she already has 8! Lol, she is SO tiny! I don't know if she can even fit on all she has! I was thinking maybe 9, at the most! She lays every egg with her other eggs in her nesting box. She checks on them often throughout the day. She shuffles them and cleans them every day. I think she will be a great momma. Is there normally an average number that Calls set on?


SHE NOT SITTING ON THEM PERMANENTLY YET? Why would she be checking on them?? 9 is a lot I only allow mine to sit on 6 the rest I will collect and incubate them.


2) how to tell if her eggs outside are still fertile with the recent drop in temperature? Last night and tonight, it dropped down to the twenties. I went and checked every egg this morning, not one single crack or anything in any. They are all fertile, with the blood halo. And, each have been doing wonderfully thus far. How can I tell if the cold has affected them? I'm wishing, hoping, & PRAYING that it hasn't!

Fertiled is fertiled regardless. Mine will mate in the snow in fact last year I had one get frost bit on his love toy. So cold weather doesn't stop a horn dog from mating.
I think The real question is are they continuing to develop. If they get to cold they would die off and turn yellowish as well as form the ring of death as I like to describe it. Almost look as if they are sticky.

A lot of times though I have see the air cell moving almost like the egg has water In it. It's kind of hard to describe but when they go bad they turn kind of runny inside. Do the eggs feel cold at all. That could be one clue to the puzzle.

 

[Lacrystol]

Ok trouble maker does not like the new baby however she is constantly noisy now JUST TO GET HIM TO TALK or make that adorable little high pitch peeping noise. Lol

 

[AmandaVirginia]

@Amykins good deal about the two that look awesome! Hopefully not about the other one!

@Lacrystol Perdy's eggs outside definitely feel cold, they were in twenty degree weather last night and again tonight also. They haven't began growing or developing yet though, cause she hasn't began to set on them. She is still laying with a clutch of 8 eggs (the 8th was laid this morning). I candled before the cold weather, they are all fertile. I just wondered if the weather affected their fertility. And, with it being so cold, if it had unfertilized them?

 

[Julie Birb]

So, as all of you know, I have Perdy's first 6 eggs in the bator (we are on day 11). Well, she also has a clutch of 8 eggs and growing outside in her little nesting box in their coop

Two questions: 1) when will she start to set? I mean she already has 8! Lol, she is SO tiny! I don't know if she can even fit on all she has! I was thinking maybe 9, at the most! She lays every egg with her other eggs in her nesting box. She checks on them often throughout the day. She shuffles them and cleans them every day. I think she will be a great momma. Is there normally an average number that Calls set on?

2) how to tell if her eggs outside are still fertile with the recent drop in temperature? Last night and tonight, it dropped down to the twenties. I went and checked every egg this morning, not one single crack or anything in any. They are all fertile, with the blood halo. And, each have been doing wonderfully thus far. How can I tell if the cold has affected them? I'm wishing, hoping, & PRAYING that it hasn't!

Tiny Perdy. How do you not just pick her up all the time and snuggle her? I know she is in egg sitting mode but how can a duck be that tiny and cute and not be left alone? She has to know she's adorable!!

 

[Julie Birb]

Ok trouble maker does not like the new baby however she is constantly noisy now JUST TO GET HIM TO TALK or make that adorable little high pitch peeping noise. Lol

is trouble maker jealous? How's her tendon? I am happy she's thriving.

 

[Lacrystol]

@Amykins good deal about the two that look awesome! Hopefully not about the other one!

@Lacrystol Perdy's eggs outside definitely feel cold, they were in twenty degree weather last night and again tonight also. They haven't began growing or developing yet though, cause she hasn't began to set on them. She is still laying with a clutch of 8 eggs (the 8th was laid this morning). I candled before the cold weather, they are all fertile. I just wondered if the weather affected their fertility. And, with it being so cold, if it had unfertilized them?

You can't tell an egg is fertiled by candling???
There's only two ways to tell if it's fertlied by cracking it open and seeing the bullseye or setting them in the bator for development. I don't understand how your checking for fertility with candling them!??

 

[Lacrystol]

is trouble maker jealous? How's her tendon? I am happy she's thriving.

She's terrible.

 

[18angovem]

You can't tell an egg is fertiled by candling???
There's only two ways to tell if it's fertlied by cracking it open and seeing the bullseye or setting them in the bator for development. I don't understand how your checking for fertility with candling them!??

I have heard rumors of a candler made by brinsea that you can see the bullseye without breaking the egg open.... But I have heard it costs about 300 dollars! I know big egg companies have candlers that can check fertility but those cost tens of thousands of dollars....

 

[18angovem]

What humidity should call ducks be incubated at?