Hatching chick eggs will pee p when ready to hatch out...Ducks ?

[Lobzi]

I have one duck egg in my incubator Ive been hatching chicks in. The duck is due to hatch anytime. Id like to know if I can listen for any noise that might give me a warning that the duckling is on its way out.
Fist time hatching anything but chicken eggs. I also have some quail eggs but so far none have been fertile so none hatching.

 

[Amiga]

There is a sticky on hatching waterfowl - https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed

Perhaps that can help.

 

[Lobzi]

Thank you for the link. I will read through it. In the meantime I decided to tuck the duck egg under a broody so I didnt have to worry about it. She will take good care of it from here on out. She is broody in the house so Im not far if something weird happens such as a rejection of the duckling. Ive heard that a hen will rear ducks as if they were chicken though.

 

[Lobzi]

For anyone else interested in this I found a very good link that helped me a lot. It is a BYC thread on hatching Muscovy ducks.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs