Mrnuggets
Hatching
- Jun 6, 2015
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Sooooooo its a long story so here goes. We have had three chickens and ducks for a year now. The ducks we got as ducklings, a male and female and my parents never let her broody cause they wanted eggs. Anyways after much wailing and pestering they allowed the duck to sit this time, however they only let her have three eggs!!!
My mother is quite mean and she kept saying the duck wasnt gonna survive and the eggs would go bad. Anways the pen we have for them is shared with the chickens. The chickens have a whole section on the top to roost on and they have a separate section on the top to lay there eggs in. The ducks usually stay on the bottom which has a floor made of simply earth and grass cuttings we put in when we mown the lawn. Anways the ducks little nest was made of lots of leaves and grass and her feathers and it was very nice but alas misfortune struck when somehow one morning two eggs went missing
At first my mother dismissed it saying that rats might have taken it (I knew it was bs, there are hardly any predators around). I suspected the chickens since they always dig up the ground and they often go every close to the nest. So later that day when i went to feed them, i saw one of the eggs sticking out of the soil!!!!!! So I dug and dug everywhere but couldnt find the last one.
So my first question, is that recovered egg likely to have gone bad?? I found it almost 15 hours later, maybe even a day since I dont know when it disappeared exactly.
After a while I found the third egg when it also showed up, almost a week later!!! I put that egg back under the mamma duck as well cause idk, I just did.
Anways its been 35 days since and the first egg has shown piping (I looked it up on google and thats what it seems to be). Anways prior to me knowing about piping, my mother told me the duck eggs were probably dead so I looked up how to see this and I found out about candling. Unfortunately I did the candling and then i saw the piping.
Does handling the egg during piping cause damage to the duck?? Also do I have to place the egg back in some sort of way? like the piping part facing a certain way?? Will those other eggs hatch?
My mother is quite mean and she kept saying the duck wasnt gonna survive and the eggs would go bad. Anways the pen we have for them is shared with the chickens. The chickens have a whole section on the top to roost on and they have a separate section on the top to lay there eggs in. The ducks usually stay on the bottom which has a floor made of simply earth and grass cuttings we put in when we mown the lawn. Anways the ducks little nest was made of lots of leaves and grass and her feathers and it was very nice but alas misfortune struck when somehow one morning two eggs went missing
At first my mother dismissed it saying that rats might have taken it (I knew it was bs, there are hardly any predators around). I suspected the chickens since they always dig up the ground and they often go every close to the nest. So later that day when i went to feed them, i saw one of the eggs sticking out of the soil!!!!!! So I dug and dug everywhere but couldnt find the last one.
So my first question, is that recovered egg likely to have gone bad?? I found it almost 15 hours later, maybe even a day since I dont know when it disappeared exactly.
After a while I found the third egg when it also showed up, almost a week later!!! I put that egg back under the mamma duck as well cause idk, I just did.
Anways its been 35 days since and the first egg has shown piping (I looked it up on google and thats what it seems to be). Anways prior to me knowing about piping, my mother told me the duck eggs were probably dead so I looked up how to see this and I found out about candling. Unfortunately I did the candling and then i saw the piping.
Does handling the egg during piping cause damage to the duck?? Also do I have to place the egg back in some sort of way? like the piping part facing a certain way?? Will those other eggs hatch?
