Please Help!!!!! sudden dark spot and no movement in egg

[HappyDancin']

Awww....SO cool!! Great story! I love a happy ending <3

 

[RubyNala97]

I have looked into it actually! But I think for now these will be my only little ones, until I have more of my life figured out!!! Moving in a few years, not sure to where (yes I plan to take my current (hopefully current if they hatch!) group with me wherever I go, but at most that wouldn't be more than 7 (if they all hatch, I can't start a whole duck farm just yet! (want to one day though!))

Trust me, it’s an addiction. After your first hatch you’ll be jonesing for another hatch! I swear. I said the same thing! Lol! Love the rubber duck collection & the story! My kids have a big rubber duck collection too. It started with this claw machine filled with all different rubber ducks and you play until you win and it just became a thing. We’d go to the mall just to play the machine so we could collect all the different ones. Here’s a pic of our house duck in the tub and my 3 yr old was sneaking some of the rubber ducks into the tub as well!

 

[WVduckchick]

Great pic Ruby!

 

[RubyNala97]

Great pic Ruby!

Thanks! That’s Mavis. Still our little house girl!

 

[RosieR]

Your duck stories gave me the warm and fuzzies thanks for sharing!
I want to get call ducks when we move to some property.
Only enough room for my tiny quails right now

 

[AlderCreekFarms]

I loved your story as well. Sorry you lost those eggs, but I hope soon you will have your dream ducks! I probably won't do ducks, although I love them. I do love watching the neighborhood whistling ducks bouncing in the trees though, they are so silly!

 

[WeTheWeys]

Trust me, it’s an addiction. After your first hatch you’ll be jonesing for another hatch! I swear. I said the same thing! Lol! Love the rubber duck collection & the story! My kids have a big rubber duck collection too. It started with this claw machine filled with all different rubber ducks and you play until you win and it just became a thing. We’d go to the mall just to play the machine so we could collect all the different ones. Here’s a pic of our house duck in the tub and my 3 yr old was sneaking some of the rubber ducks into the tub as well!

So when you say "house duck" do you mean an indoor duck? That was my plan (for over the winter at least) but I have read soooo much saying it is not good to do.... However isn't it okay to do if you're providing them with everything they need and more? I have a little pond out back for them, but I was going to have them sleep inside. The vast amount of coyotes around here makes me nervous that no matter how perfectly secure their pen would be, the predators would still find a way in..... I would so much rather have indoor ducks than to have predator-eaten ducks!

 

[mzhof]

You can't trust the thermometer or humidity guage that comes with the incubator.
You really should spend a couple dollars and purchase separate ones....Walmart has cheap ones...and calibrate them.


Give me a few minutes to type up how to do the salt test. It's simple.

I was just wondering about this too, I bought a forced air styrofoam incubator from Fleet Farm and put eggs in on 7/27. I have a separate therm /hygrometer in. Steadily everyday my therm shows a drop in temp while the incubator stays at whatever I set it. This morning my therm was only 96 and 50% humidity when the incubator was 104 and 47%. I never did a humidity test do I keep increasing the incubator temp so my other therm keeps the correct temp? Eggs are veining already so I don’t want to lose any.

 

[WVduckchick]

I was just wondering about this too, I bought a forced air styrofoam incubator from Fleet Farm and put eggs in on 7/27. I have a separate therm /hygrometer in. Steadily everyday my therm shows a drop in temp while the incubator stays at whatever I set it. This morning my therm was only 96 and 50% humidity when the incubator was 104 and 47%. I never did a humidity test do I keep increasing the incubator temp so my other therm keeps the correct temp? Eggs are veining already so I don’t want to lose any.

Good that you put other meters in there, but did you check them for accuracy first?
And keep an eye on your air cell growth. Anything above 35% humidity would be way too high for mine, but could be ok in your area.

 

[RubyNala97]

So when you say "house duck" do you mean an indoor duck? That was my plan (for over the winter at least) but I have read soooo much saying it is not good to do.... However isn't it okay to do if you're providing them with everything they need and more? I have a little pond out back for them, but I was going to have them sleep inside. The vast amount of coyotes around here makes me nervous that no matter how perfectly secure their pen would be, the predators would still find a way in..... I would so much rather have indoor ducks than to have predator-eaten ducks!

What happened was a BYC member mailed me my first call duck eggs in the mail a few years ago. They were going to be my first ducks. The postal route between me and her is very rough on eggs (we’ve sent a few batches back and forth) and when I got them every single one had a completely detached air cell and the membrane had pulled away from the shell, they were just a mess. I set them and gave them lots of tlc but only 1 egg hatched. I immediately got more duck eggs (local and shipped). Hoping once more babies hatched my little single baby would have friends. But she imprinted on me and my family completely. When the new babies came she was scared to death of them. To this day she is scared of other ducks. When we are all outside free ranging together the other ducks will come check her out and she goes right in between my feet. So needless to say she lives in the house with us. That’s her story.

As for having indoor ducks I will say this...if you predator proof your enclosures properly nothing will get in. When I made my enclosures both for my ducks and chickens I didn’t cut any corners with predator proofing. I read all the articles and threads and implemented what they said and I’ve never had anything get in. My neighbor has hundreds of animals and all his enclosure are thrown together and he constantly has raccoons, skunks, opossums, and coyotes getting in. So I know all these animals/predators are right next door but they can’t get in to my enclosures at night since I’ve properly predator proofed them. I’ve never had a problem. BUT I will say this also, my neighbor on the other side of me did have ducks (and chickens) and I don’t know exactly how he did it but they were fully free-ranged during the day and they would all go into his house at night. No coops, no enclosures. Just keep in mind that ducks are extremely messy and need lots of clean water. Where were you thinking of putting them?

I was just wondering about this too, I bought a forced air styrofoam incubator from Fleet Farm and put eggs in on 7/27. I have a separate therm /hygrometer in. Steadily everyday my therm shows a drop in temp while the incubator stays at whatever I set it. This morning my therm was only 96 and 50% humidity when the incubator was 104 and 47%. I never did a humidity test do I keep increasing the incubator temp so my other therm keeps the correct temp? Eggs are veining already so I don’t want to lose any.

WV already said this but my question was going to be, did you calibrate the separate thermometer/hygrometer? Temps will fluctuate a little in correlation to humidity. Also thermometers will read differently at different heights in the incubator. The top of the incubator and the incubator floor can vary in temp. But definitely checked the 2 separate devices for accuracy. Do you need any help on how to do this?