Muscovy and Khaki Campbell duck eggs fertile or rotten?

[Poultry Couture]

The red ring is when the blood vanes burst. Usually it's from not enough fertility.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

The muscovies won't let the Pekin near them so I didn't think there was much of a chance of the eggs being fertile, but I thought since they normally sleep in their house all together he got to them, guess not.

Oh well... thank you all for replying so quickly, it's members like you who make this site truely useful and now I don't have to be waiting for ducklings while the eggs go rotten...

The egg with the red ring around it, you said it was a "bad egg" does this mean the embreyo died at an early age or the egg was under developed or it just developed wrong inside her?

Also, since the 'scovies wont let the Pekin near them, will he ever gain up the confidence to be the dominant one? He was raised with the Khaki's and never had much to do with the Muscovies, just got bullied by them when he was younger and that's about it.


This is the 2 Khaki's and the Pekin when they were a few days old, I chose the Pekin because it was the smallest and the loudest, so I figured it'd be a girl... wrong.
He got his name "Peeper" as when ever I went to feed him or he ever saw me, he would huddle with his adopted sisters and peep as loud as he could...
(From Left to Right): Crackles, Peeper & Pip.

neither of the darker ducklings are Khaki Campbells. Not sure what they are (could be any mix or even rouen-rouen/mix)

Here are Khaki ducklings



Khaki adult duck



Khaki adult drake




your Pekin drake may or may not ever bond with the scovy girls. If they picked on him constantly it is likely he wont.

 

[Haunted55]

they look like mallards.

 

[crissycriss]

Mallard have 1 eye stripe where i think the one looks to have 2.If they are the same age i would think the 2 darker ones would be smaller than the pekin if mallard.
I agree with COF a rouen or rouen mix.

 

[animalz11]

they look like mallards.

Oh wow, I think they are mallards, they even have the blue-ish feather on their wings... one even has the lighter coloured sort of yellow beak...
Then again, I just googled Rouen's they look a lot like them too...
What are the main differences between the breeds?
I had just assumed I got colourful Pekins...
Many of the Rouen ducks seem to be very bulky, my girls are more slender and not as, well... fat.
I'll see if I can get some pics:

In this picture she looks more like a Rouen, but when she's outside she looks more like a mallard...

Crackles... she's was a little wary of the camera, not so much now, now she bites at it...

Crackles, Peeper, Pip.



Wow, I need to take LOTS more photos!!!
I hope these help

 

[animalz11]

The red ring is when the blood vanes burst. Usually it's from not enough fertility.

Does this mean he mated her too late or the egg wasn't ready yet?
So the egg was fertile but didn't have enough "energy" (for lack of better words...) to support the embreyo through the course of growth.

 

[animalz11]

Well, after a quick research session, I think they would be more likely to be Rouens as they are the same size as the Pekin, and from my limited knowledge of domestic mallards arn't mallards smaller then domestic ducks?

 

[Poultry Couture]

Sometimes it means too less fertile or too much. Mine are usually too much. It causes the baby to grow super quick then die quick. I had one that was fully grown and pipping on day 17. It died In shell. It was no where near normal.it was crazy! I candled it everyday.. Bigger and bigger and bigger!

 

[crissycriss]

Mallards are a lot smaller than pekin.Mallards have one eye stripe Rouen have 2 eye stripes.
They look like rouen to me.Way to large to be mallard.Very pretty.

 

[crissycriss]

The mallard and rouen look just a like except for the eye stripes and there size.