Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[casportpony]

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.

I let the majority of mine hatch brood and raise theirs, too.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

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.

agree they make the best hatchers.

 

[casportpony]

Here is the best example of a fetilized egg I could find.

 

[casportpony]

This is my attempt at taking pictures of fertile eggs... I need a better camera, lol.





-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here are the third and fourth ducklings.

 

[MuscovyLover]

Here is the non-fertile turkey egg: -Kathy

Thanks Kathy This is really helpful.

 

[MuscovyLover]

quote name="casportpony" url="/t/4/incubation-progress-of-muscovy-eggs/2000_100#post_13243159"]This is my attempt at taking pictures of fertile eggs... I need a better camera, lol. -Kathy [/quote] No this makes things much clearer for me I'm glad to see the fertile eggs don't need to be a perfectly symetrical cirle/bullseye. It gives me a clearer idea about what im looking for and also reassures me that at least one of the three older eggs were in fact, likely fertile

 

[MuscovyLover]

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. 

I have about thirty eggs collected and I've gotten them over the course of the last 3 weeks roughly.
So some are anywhere up to a bit over 3 weeks old and some only a few days.

 

[casportpony]

quote name="casportpony" url="/t/4/incubation-progress-of-muscovy-eggs/2000_100#post_13243159"]This is my attempt at taking pictures of fertile eggs... I need a better camera, lol.







-Kathy

No this makes things much clearer for me
I'm glad to see the fertile eggs don't need to be a perfectly symetrical cirle/bullseye.
It gives me a clearer idea about what im looking for and also reassures me that at least one of the three older eggs were in fact, likely fertile[/QUOTE]
I think handling the eggs can distort the bullseye, which I had to do because they landed wrong side up, lol.

-Kathy

 

[yinepu]

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.

I'll stick with my incubator.. don't have to worry about raccoons raiding it!