Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[casportpony]

I need to go out today and thin out some of the duck nests or I'll be overrun with ducklings as I think there are 15-20 hens on nests!

-Kathy

 

[Buck Oakes]

None of my females are broody

( to hot and humid )

 

[Alaskan]

None of my females are broody

( to hot and humid )

Definitely NOT hot an humid where I am at. The snow is melting, but we still have lots of it. It looks like spring, but I am getting NO eggs and NO broody ducks. It is killing me, because I actually have a couple people wanting to buy ducklings from me.

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

I have been following this thread for a while, I was wondering if any of you could give me some advice. I started out with 10 Shipped Muscovy eggs, tossed one around two wks into incubation, it was stuck to the side and died. the other nine seem to be doing just fine until last week when I candled them I noticed some werent growing like the others. I candled again last night and decided to pull the four out that weren't alive. I eggtopsied them and found this

I guess my question is, is it normal to loose ducklings at this stage in incubation? & why? I have kept my humidity around 40-45% and started cooling and misting the eggs 2 weeks ago when I read that online (Ive never incubated waterfowl before). No temp spikes or anything like that either. I'm just a little upset because they all seemed to be doing pretty well and now I only have 3 moving embryos and 2 questionable ones left in the bator.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Did u have a power outage or miss a turn, if u miss just one turn for muscovy eggs then they can die , that's why I was lucky at least two hatched because the incubator went out at least twice during incubation

 

[casportpony]

There are a couple of experienced Muscovy hatchers on this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/808184/incubation-progress-of-muscovy-eggs

-kathy

 

[casportpony]

Look for posts from yinepu and charlindabob, both seem to know lots about it.

-Kathy

 

[Buck Oakes]

And plus sometimes ducks don't move like chickens in the egg so they probably weren't dead you'll know when there dead when th yolk floats to a side of the egg and turn black so they probably weren't dead till u opened them.

And also if they start to stink and it's a week or a couple of days till te hatch that's normal , most eggs start stinking a day or two before hatch, it can even be a week when they start stinking

 

[casportpony]

Yinepu - https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/96297/yinepu

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Charlindabob - https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/21746/charlindabob

-Kathy