Clutch of small duck eggs?

[HeartsHolly17]

My khaki Campbell’s just started laying a month or two ago and I walked into the coop today and found a clutch of 10 eggs. I want to incubate these eggs but I’m worried about how small they are. All of my duck’s eggs are about the same size as my Easter egger’s, and I was worried about them being too small to incubate. My drake is very active so I’m certain these are fertile, but I don’t want the ducklings to die if they don’t have any room to grow. Should I just go ahead and try to incubate these or should I wait until there’s another clutch/wait until they lay bigger eggs?

 

[mcdze]

no experience on hatching 'new layer' eggs other than the smaller eggs i have incubated produced a slightly smaller chick that grew up just fine ... if your worried about it give the bird a couple of months to mature more, i know new young layers produce steadily larger and better looking eggs for several months after they start ...

 

[JaeG]

New layers systems take awhile to get everything right for the eggs to successfully produce a duckling/chick, so just be prepared for a lower hatch rate. It's best to wait at least a couple of weeks, ideally a month, to give them time to work out the kinks and get the process working smoothly.

Small eggs produce small chicks/ducklings because there aren't enough nutrients in the egg to produce a larger, more robust chick/duckling - if there were they would grow too large to successfully hatch. The smaller babies can be weaker in their first week or two of life as well.