Question about Duck eggs/hatching

Tinydinomomma

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Apr 25, 2024
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I have been raising ducks for about 3 years. I have 11 females that are laying age. From late March to early June between a few girls sitting and me incubating we hatched 64 healthy ducklings ( I lost count of the amount of eggs)...but they are still steady laying. I've continued putting them in the incubator but the hatchings have been zero. They eggs either quit developing, or they actually explode. Nothing new with the incubator, the settings are correct, I have not changed anything..but I've also never had them continue to lay this late in the year and continue to want to sit the eggs. They are mallards. The oldest is 3 years old, the youngest is a year old. Can anyone shed any light on why the eggs are not continuing to develop to full term (for lack of better term)? Just trying to figure out why all of a sudden, my eggs are not hatching.
Thanks.
 
The air Humidity is always changing, so your hatch conditions could still be changing.
Other things that could be different would be nutrition of the adults. Also how many generations of ducks have you kept?
Exploding means bacteria has entered the eggs.
 
The air Humidity is always changing, so your hatch conditions could still be changing.
Other things that could be different would be nutrition of the adults. Also how many generations of ducks have you kept?
Exploding means bacteria has entered the eggs.
Thank you for the explanation on exploding eggs. I did not know that. 2 generations on the ducks. We sell the ducklings at 2 days old to our local feed store.
 

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