Muscovy and Khaki Campbell duck eggs fertile or rotten?

[Poultry Couture]

Yep

 

[animalz11]

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!

Oh wow, at their peek session where the eggs are the largest is it more likely for the eggs to be too fertile?
This was the girls 3rd or 4th egg so possible too less fertility?

With your duckling that died... did itexternally pip? Or just die before that stage? Poor thing... it's sad how it's life had to be lost because of a malfunction with the egg...

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

never heard of such a thing as too fertile. Not fertile and fertile. Bacteria, and other factors will cause them not to grow and or quit early.

 

[animalz11]

I'll have to get used to calling the girls Rouens from now on...

<-- I was looking through the smilies to see which one would suit the girls new breed, but I found this bugger instead...

 

[animalz11]

p.s. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
I hope you give your ducks lots of treat... my girls/boy are getting left over fruit and veg, and maybe some "specials" along the way...

 

[crissycriss]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

 

[Poultry Couture]

Yea, I get a lot of too fertile eggs. Our khaki Campbell's pretty much drown the girls!

 

[animalz11]

Yea, I get a lot of too fertile eggs. Our khaki Campbell's pretty much drown the girls!

You'd think it would help, give them an "up and go" if you like.
I found a double yolker today, when I candled it there were 2 darker spots that moved individually, didn't get a chance to crack it open though.

GOOD NEWS!!! I found a spider vein in one of the Rouen eggs!!! I could just make out a heartbeat and from the centre blobs, there were 4 main veins, in another egg, it was not as distinct as the spider vein egg but I could still make out distinct veins coming from the fat side of the egg! YAY!!

Although, as I though the eggs wern't fertile as I candled them a few days after they were laid I was a bit rough withthem in putting them on the table after carrying them, so the spider vein egg had some light cracks in it, it didn't open the egg nor could you put a finger nail in it and I couldn't feel so it wasn't to deep, but I had read on a previous thread that you can put candle wax on the egg? So I put the wax all over the crack and hopefully I got all of it...

The Rouen eggs I candle and put under the Muscovys because they know how to sit on them and when not to. Also the Rouens don't sit on the eggs after a swim, they dry off completly so the eggs don't get very good humidity...

Also, my cousin would like to tell you about his ducks after he found me on my laptop and was curious to see what I was up to, I told him I was telling people about my ducks, he wants you to know about his aswell: "My ducks are Khaki Campbells and Pekins, we got 3 Khaki Campbells and 3 Pekins, the Pekin's names are Clover, Buttercup and Buttercup Junior, The khaki Campbell names are Campbell, Honker and Swimmer. I like them because they quck a lot and normally do their normaly stuff, they normally just run around the yard, just scaring off the snakes, I like when they scare away the snakes."

 

[Poultry Couture]

Congrats!

Well, my polish rooster ran away as I've told y'all before. Before he got scared away one of my hens laid her first egg! And guess what??! IT'S FERTILE!
So I'm really hoping a male comes out! That would be a miracle!

 

[sourland]

never heard of such a thing as too fertile. Not fertile and fertile. Bacteria, and other factors will cause them not to grow and or quit early.

Because such factors do not exist - misinformation abounds. Absolute truth that bacteria and other environmental factors will affect growth/quitting.