How long do you need to separate ducks for breeding?

[tonini3059]

Because of all the snow and now mud here we were unable to get our breeding pens up in time before they stared breeding and now I am getting mixed eggs. How long do they need to be separated before the eggs will be pure? I thought somewhere that it takes two weeks.

 

[tonini3059]

Also I have the eggs up for sale on the auction page if anyone is interested.

 

[afeatherfan]

2 weeks

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

1-3 weeks 2 is a good average, wouldnt sell any as PURE til 3 weeks to be safe

 

[kswaterfowl]

Although you are probably safe waiting two weeks. In order to insure purest birds, a lot of people wait a full month before they begin hatching. (or 15-18 eggs if they are laying every other day. We have a pair of grey Mallards that we recently got, and if she laid, we would deffinatly eat those eggs. She was with roosters (although not worried about them) Welsh Harlequins, Runners and Rouens all in the same pen. So we are waiting several weeks for pure mallards.

 

[tonini3059]

Thank, I figured it would be awhile. I'd rather be safe than sell bad eggs, well not pure.

 

[CityChicker]

I recently bought some Call hens. They started laying eggs a few days after arriving here and continued to lay fertile eggs for almost a month, confirmed fertile by incubation (not just cracking them open). That is pretty consistent with what I have always read about waiting a month.

 

[Chris09]

4 weeks..

Chris