Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[subhanalah]

Okay folks. What are these two blemishes on the bottom of the pic to the right?
I have been looking for so long that I've convinced myself it is fertile lol but then there wouldn't be two marks would there?

wow...that's kind of weird? Maybe post these pictures in that is other thread so more people will see it?

 

[MuscovyLover]

Which thread do you recommend?

 

[casportpony]

Okay folks. What are these two blemishes on the bottom of the pic to the right?
I have been looking for so long that I've convinced myself it is fertile lol but then there wouldn't be two marks would there?

I don't see the bulls eye, but it could just be these old eyes.

I'll see if I can get some pictures for you to compare against. I know my turkey eggs are *not* fertile (not tom), so I'll get some of both fertil and non-fertile.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

I would say fertiled..

 

[subhanalah]

Which thread do you recommend?

you had already done it before I even posted the suggestion!

 

[MuscovyLover]

I am going to not crack any more eggs and just put them all in the incubator when it arrives next week.
I'm being so impatient and driving myself nuts over it lol.
My smallest girl has been taunting me too. She sits on her little clutch all night and when I open the pen at sun up she makes all manner of weird squeaks at me for going near her. She then gets up a few hours after everyone else, about noon, does that great big smelly broody poop I've been hearing about (phew it is rank) and then ignores the nest till bed time.
Would this be hurting the eggs?

 

[casportpony]

Got a couple good pictures of an infertilzed egg, will do the same for a fertile one next.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here is the non-fertile turkey egg:




-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

I am going to not crack any more eggs and just put them all in the incubator when it arrives next week.
I'm being so impatient and driving myself nuts over it lol.
My smallest girl has been taunting me too. She sits on her little clutch all night and when I open the pen at sun up she makes all manner of weird squeaks at me for going near her. She then gets up a few hours after everyone else, about noon, does that great big smelly broody poop I've been hearing about (phew it is rank) and then ignores the nest till bed time.
Would this be hurting the eggs?

Did you just start collecting? I find that I have to give mine at least 2 weeks of mating before putting them in the bator for them to start showing any signs of development. If I put mine in sooner then that even though they have been mating, I get nothing.

 

[Mashallaharabia]

We don't use an incubator at all, nor a brooder, heat lamps or feeders. The Muscovy hens are perfectly willing and able to brood and hatch their own eggs and teach the new ducklings how to find food and water, as they have done since before our ancestors came down out of the trees.