Muscovy incubators support group.

[sevenchickens]

It's almost over!!

I'm not seeing any movement or hearing any peeps in my other eggs. If Mom2emAll wasn't in the same situation I think I'd loose my mind.

 

[Mom 2em All]

OKAY EGGS!!! I AM GOING TO BED NOW... If you could have some pips by morning, that would be wonderful....

 

[sevenchickens]

They'll wait!! and wait, and wait. They're all going to wait and be a day late! That's my luck anyway!

 

[snowhorse]

Okay so I am totally new to hatching and I have been dying for muscovys.

So I bought 2 and 1/2 dozen, some were possible pekin x mules...but I didn't care I wanted some scovys.

Well I put them in on April 6. I think they were around 9 + going on 2 weeks old. I candled them tonight and saw nothing! I took them all out but one that looked like it might have had a vein, the rest were either clear or had a red ring.

I put 1 dozen shipped eggs in from ebay yesterday. Candling them obviously messed up my temp and humidity tonight.

Did I do anything wrong? I did my best to keep temp at 99.5 and the humidity around 55% or above. It did get down to 20% once...I have had a really hard time keeping the humidity up, I almost have to add water daily to keep the humidity up. Is opening the incubator daily bad?

I am going to candle the eggs in there now in 14 days....I am really hoping for something

 

[1Chick Magnet]

why does everyone say muscovies are difficult to hatch. I put in 7 eggs a few weeks ago and all are fertile and developing. I sure would hate to loose them. is there anything different I need to do? I hatched 3 runners last week as a first timer with no problem at all other than my nerves. lol

 

[princessmama]

1Chick Magnet: The first time I incubated Muscovy eggs I set 16. 12 developed. I was very excited but only 3 hatched. Then I started reading a bunch of stuff about how muscovys are so hard to hatch and they tend to die right at the end. Now, those were shipped eggs and those can also be a problem. I have18 scovy eggs in the bator now with wiggly developing embryos in them

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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my eggs were not shipped. why do they die at the end?

 

[Mom 2em All]

all of mine developed, and none of them hatched.

It was an awful experience and I will not do it again. Two pipped, one died after that, and I helped the other one and it waited three days to die. Every egg had a fully developed duckling inside. I don't understand how they make it that far and then dont make it.
No more for me.

 

[nataliewt]

I am incubating Muscovy eggs for my first time, too. I have been up till the middle of the night all week searching on the internet for that elusive something that is going to be the answer to Muscovy egg incubation, but so far nothing. I guess it is just trial by fire! Of course, once I gave up on finding incubation information on the internet, I switched to looking for genetics information so that I can plan future breedings for my eggs that haven't even hatched yet. Ha.

Last night I went to bed at 8pm (and my eggies didn't even get their final turning of the day!). I guess these middle oft he night obsessions can only last so long.

So for what it is worth my EDDs:

Duck #1 (Fluffy) sitting on 20 eggs (all white): due May 13
Duck #2 (also named Fluffy) sitting on 9 of her own eggs (all white and 5 shipped eggs of mixed colors): due May 22
Incubator 12 chocolate Muscovy eggs, 1 duck egg of unknown variety, 1 white egg, and 10 shipped eggs from the mixed color flock: due May 24

Good luck everyone!

 

[snowhorse]

no advice for me ??