Fertile Duck Eggs - YAY!!!!!

[duckking]

After the disaster of trying to hatch useless shipped chicken eggs in my first attempt at hatching, we grabbed some freshly laid duck eggs (2 Mallard and 1 Rouen) and put them in the incubator. I was thinking our Rouen drake was shooting blanks, because we eat the eggs and none seemed to be fertile when I cracked them open. Well today, day 5, I just had to candle them and YAY! All of them had great vascular development, but the air sacs looked a little small to me. Then again, not having done this before, I'm not sure how big they should be.....

Anyway, we are THRILLED!

Hopefully we'll have success this time......at least the darn things are fertile......You go Victor (our drake) Possibley 2 Mallard/Rouen mix and 1 Rouen!

 

[jcfuente51]

cool did u take any pics of candleing? i wanna hatch ducks but i dunno if i cna find eggs here in the area.

 

[duckking]

I didn't take any pics, but here's a link that someone started to show the development. Ours look exactly like the day 5 pics.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=304863

Where do you live...cuz we have TONS of duck eggs. Getting 4 a day, plus chicken eggs, but they are not fertile (no Roo).

***EDIT*** Forgot the link

 

[jcfuente51]

I live in panama.

we used to live in sarasota fl but we moved back in 2007 here
im hatching chicks now i have 2 pips i dont think i will be able to sleep.
where do u live?