is it possible..?

[lovesduckies]

that my drake was "shooting blanks?" my hen layed a nest and we waited and waited and waited for them to hatch and nothing happened so they started to smell really bad so i threw them out. one of which had already been broken 2 weeks before (no duckling and it was over 35 days) and when i threw them out on tuesday there was a broken one in the nest but the contents of it was yellow.

he's almost a year. this was my hens second clutch. i have one of their babies from the first clutch.

 

[duckyfromoz]

Heat can effect fertility, and the viability of eggs. So soon after Quackers hatching out her first lot- its not likely Duckie is Shooting blanks. Candling eggs at various stages is the only real way to tell for sure- that way you can see how many start developing. By 35 days some that have gone rotten are too dark to tell if there was ever a duckling growing in there.

 

[jrobertson]

if i remember correctly, u raise muscovies. muscovies being a larger breed(especially the drakes), fertility can be improved by having them access to a pool at least 6 to 8 in deep. i also know that fertility drops when you are trying to make mules. if those two things do not concern this issue, maybe diet?

 

[lovesduckies]

thanks ducky. i need a torch

LOL

jrobertson, i do have socvies. the breeding pair are in their own pen with a pool. i'm not sure how deep it is..