Candling Muscovy Eggs

[Gobbles3]

Hi all, usually I just leave my Muscovys to do the hatching themselves but they went a bit overboard with eggs so I put some in my incubator. At what stage should I expect to see some development? They've been in for a week and they don't seem to have started developing.
Also if anyone has some helpful hints or an incubation guide I'd love to hear them because I hatch mostly chickens and guinea fowl and have never had a lot of success with duck eggs.
Thanks in advance.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Here's an article that may be helpful,

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs.63532/

 

[Yardmom]

I don't worry about misting the eggs like in the article, but keeping humidity similar to chicks has worked for me. Since Muscovies take 5 weeks to hatch each stage can take a bit longer. I think I have had some over a week by the time veining was obvious.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I've hatched muscovy eggs under broody bantam chicken hens. They don't get wet, so not sure that part is important or not.

 

[Gobbles3]

Here's an article that may be helpful,

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs.63532/

Ah awesome I'll check it out

 

[Gobbles3]

I don't worry about misting the eggs like in the article, but keeping humidity similar to chicks has worked for me. Since Muscovies take 5 weeks to hatch each stage can take a bit longer. I think I have had some over a week by the time veining was obvious.

Okay. Thank you. I'll definitely remember that.

 

[Gobbles3]

I've hatched muscovy eggs under broody bantam chicken hens. They don't get wet, so not sure that part is important or not.

Ah okay. I did wonder if I could put them under a broody hen, but I've got the incubator all set up now so I'll just continue to use that