Hatching small duck eggs...

[lomine]

Wow! I've never seen a duck egg that small. Granted I'm still kinda new to ducks and my Peking that just started laying this August often lays double yolk which is ridiculous (3.5 inches long) but that's a teeny egg.

But like others said if it's fertile it could hatch and be fine. Your birds your choice. I would be in the "let's not hatch that one" camp.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way but... Peking duck is a cooked duck dish. Pekin duck is a breed of duck. That 'g' makes a big difference.

 

[kesrchicky16]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way but... Peking duck is a cooked duck dish. Pekin duck is a breed of duck. That 'g' makes a big difference.

LOL no offense. I think autocorrect attacked. I usually have Pekin duck eggs. I sell my unneeded drakes as I can't eat duck. Unneeded cockerels on the other hand...

 

[GeoGreyWolf]

will have to see, i dont even know if my male has been breeding at all.. They are all a younger flock, the ones i thought were older have not laid any eggs at all yet. My Pekin's (i have had the autocorrect feature happen with the g also) eggs are currently 2.5 inches

 

[kesrchicky16]

will have to see, i dont even know if my male has been breeding at all.. They are all a younger flock, the ones i thought were older have not laid any eggs at all yet. My Pekin's (i have had the autocorrect feature happen with the g also) eggs are currently 2.5 inches

That sounds more normal. Most of mine are about that big only the double yolks get absolutely huge.

 

[GeoGreyWolf]

hmm so looking up duck eggs i seen the weight that was described in an article for difference between duck and chicken eggs was weight. They stated the duck egg weight was around 2.5 ounces.. I weighed three of mine and they were 1.8 ounces. So might need to wait, idk. Also can anyone advise how to clean eggs to properly incubate them. I know not to really wash them due to taking off the protective layer, but can you rinse off the dirt from them? I also seen someone spray a solution of half Listerine mouth wash half water onto his eggs to kill bacteria, and he had a 100% hatch rate in his video.

 

[lomine]

I don’t wash eggs that are being incubated but have used a dry towel to wipe off dirt. I’ve never heard of using listerine.

 

[Miss Lydia]

You should see some of the eggs my Muscovy's brood you'd think they'd never hatch they are pretty dirty some even have poop on them. But maybe doing artificial incubation is different.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

pullet chicken eggs have a higher rate of late incubation death

ducks are seasonal layers (unless they are a hybrid like many of the hatcheries sell) so you can start setting as soon as they start laying, yes they may be smaller ducklings but i have not read anything about ducks having issues like chickens do

and i set super dirty eggs, the problem with washing is removing the bloom and pushing bacteria into the egg, with duck eggs they have a waxy covering- remember they are water birds, the mom duck will actually go swimming then go back onto the nest

 

[GeoGreyWolf]

ok wasnt sure if i could rinse off the dirt, and not say scrub them. Plus not sure about the listerine solution.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Honestly and I don't use an incubator just my females for hatching but I wouldn't think Listerine would be beneficial for hatching eggs. That is some strong stuff.