- Jun 28, 2011
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My husband and I are usually very good about picking up the eggs in the yard, but these past 2 weeks have been crazy. One of my female ducks was attacked by my new puppy...it was my faul for not make sure the pen was locked... She is ok now and has since rejoined th flock.
My other female during all this madness has decided to go broody since we forgot to pick up the eggs. (She even used the feathers from the female attacked... Hey at least they went to good use)
She has 10 eggs, I figured to give her a chance and see if she will actually sit this time, cause the last few time she would walk away at like day 20.
I don't have an incubator, and I kind of want nature to take its course. I have sectioned her off from my other 2 ducks with an xpen and put a kiddie pool in there. I don't know the exact age of the ducklings so I don't want them to hatch and have my drake kill them.
Outside temp here has been around the high 60's with a bit of a low in the 40-50's last week for a few days.
I candled the eggs last night, all of them appeared fertile, they all had veins and developed air sacks, other then that it was too dark to see anything else. So I al pretty sure they are all developing. I just don't know what to do at this point. I want her to hatch them, but like I said I don't know the age, and do I leave the ducklings with her until they fully hatch or do I collect them once they started to pip..
I NEED HELP lol
My other female during all this madness has decided to go broody since we forgot to pick up the eggs. (She even used the feathers from the female attacked... Hey at least they went to good use)
She has 10 eggs, I figured to give her a chance and see if she will actually sit this time, cause the last few time she would walk away at like day 20.
I don't have an incubator, and I kind of want nature to take its course. I have sectioned her off from my other 2 ducks with an xpen and put a kiddie pool in there. I don't know the exact age of the ducklings so I don't want them to hatch and have my drake kill them.
Outside temp here has been around the high 60's with a bit of a low in the 40-50's last week for a few days.
I candled the eggs last night, all of them appeared fertile, they all had veins and developed air sacks, other then that it was too dark to see anything else. So I al pretty sure they are all developing. I just don't know what to do at this point. I want her to hatch them, but like I said I don't know the age, and do I leave the ducklings with her until they fully hatch or do I collect them once they started to pip..
I NEED HELP lol