Confused

[Dayna2424]

I'm a little bit confused. All the post I have read said that Pekin ducks don't start laying eggs until they are 7 months old at least. When I was cleaning out my duck pen this morning I found 4 small white eggs in there and my female duck Cher is just a little over 4 months old. Her and my male ducks sunny are constantly mating so I am wondering if these eggs are fertile.

 

[pattyhen]

Welcome to BYC. There really is no set time they will lay. I would say if you found them in the coop and she is mating with the male they should be fertile.

 

[Dayna2424]

Cool thank you now I will have to make a homemade incubator and hatch them so I can have some more little baby ducklings hip hip hooray. I love little baby ducklings. Thank you for your info

 

[pattyhen]

Your welcome and good luck with your hatching. I love ducks too.

 

[Dayna2424]

Okay golden feathers another question for you the eggs I am trying to hatch are about the size of a regular chicken eggs will they still produce a baby duck or are they too small

 

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[Dayna2424]

These are my two ducks Sonny and Cher the bigger one is Sunny the little one share these are there she's been laying the biggest one I got this morning the little ones are the ones I'm trying to hatch my question is is the little one big enough to to hold a baby duck through the hatching. Or is it going to be too small or do I need to wait for her to leave the big ones to try and hatch them

 

[Dayna2424]

Someone please help me or am I just spinning my wheels trying to hatch the smaller eggs I know they are fertilized because they are always mating

 

[dekel18042]

Someone please help me or am I just spinning my wheels trying to hatch the smaller eggs I know they are fertilized because they are always mating

While I have hatched pullet eggs successfully in an emergency (anxious to try my new incubator. Lost the male so it was then or never), I think it would be better to wait a bit for eggs to get a little larger to give babies more room to develop. Every time we had to intervene it was because of a large baby in a smaller egg.