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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
