Excellent! Beautiful healthy ducklings. Well done.So here’s the final information on the duck eggs:
6 eggs were initially set. 1 was double yolk, so no development. Of the remaining 5, 1 embryo died about a week into incubation. 1 died probably late in the 3rd week, and one made it all the way to lockdown but did not pip (eggtopsy showed it was in a breach position; don’t know if that was the sole cause).
That leaves us with two ducklings, hatched almost exactly 24 hours apart. Here are Siu Mai and Dantaat (don-tot). I think they’re Pekins, just because that’s the only mallard-type white duck I know. Siu’s head is darker yellow though .
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That there was any success was surprising. These eggs were near freezing when I bought them, and no telling how long they had been so cold, much less any other shipping/storage conditions. It took hours for them to get warm enough to even go in the incubator.
Next in the series: The next grocery store egg incubation will be coturnix quail eggs. I don’t have a schedule for those yet, as I’m going to focus on the long term duckling plan for a bit first. Need to get their college fund started and all that.Really that’s the thing I have to stress here — grocery store egg hatches are really fun, as long as you are prepared for what comes out. Of course that’s true of any eggs.
