Setting Duck Eggs 4/4, anyone else with me?

[PoultryGirly]

Yayyyy!

What day are your eggs on? What breed? I'm going to set my call duck eggs after they arrive!!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

That is cool! I have been so obsessed with keeping temps exact and making sure the humidity is good that I have even been getting up in the middle of the night to check them.
Here are some pics I took of my eggs tonight

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What do you think?

Put it back in the bator & leave it alone until day 10.

Very rarely are you going to see anything much before day 7 on ducks.

 

[jmorgan]

They are supposed to hatch May 2. So we will see. I don't know what kind they are. They were given to me by a student. They mentioned that the drake was a mallard but I don't know anything else. It will be a surprise!

 

[jmorgan]

Put it back in the bator & leave it alone until day 10.

Very rarely are you going to see anything much before day 7 on ducks.

Okay, I will leave them alone until Friday. I did notice that the air pockets were getting bigger is that good or bad this early on?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Okay, I will leave them alone until Friday. I did notice that the air pockets were getting bigger is that good or bad this early on?

They will gradually enlarge. Sally Sunshine has some charts in the links in her signature for air cell development. I think she even added 1 for ducks.

 

[jmorgan]

Okay I know I said I would leave my eggs alone, but something just kept telling me they were not fertile. So, I cracked one open this evening. Gasp!

I now 99% sure they are not, but then again I am pretty new to this. However, I want to be 100% sure. Here is a pic of a duck egg that has been in the incubator for 6 days. What do you think?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Okay I know I said I would leave my eggs alone, but something just kept telling me they were not fertile. So, I cracked one open this evening. Gasp!

I now 99% sure they are not, but then again I am pretty new to this. However, I want to be 100% sure. Here is a pic of a duck egg that has been in the incubator for 6 days. What do you think?

I see no bullseye & no development. If they are all the same then not fertile. I DO see the germinal disc (little white dot) in the bottom pic, but there's no blastoderm (bullseye) around it. I have eggs for sale if you need some. Pekins & runners can ship today, but 2 orders ahead for calls.

 

[jmorgan]

I see no bullseye & no development. If they are all the same then not fertile. I DO see the germinal disc (little white dot) in the bottom pic, but there's no blastoderm (bullseye) around it. I have eggs for sale if you need some. Pekins & runners can ship today, but 2 orders ahead for calls.

Thank you for offering the eggs, but I found a local buyer. With this being my first hatch and all the info I have read about shipped eggs being harder to incubate, I thought it would be a good idea to try these first. I was able to get several different types of eggs Silver Appleyard, Crested Pekin, and some mixed. We set 14 eggs yesterday around 4, so hopefully we will have some little duckies around May 11.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Thank you for offering the eggs, but I found a local buyer. With this being my first hatch and all the info I have read about shipped eggs being harder to incubate, I thought it would be a good idea to try these first. I was able to get several different types of eggs Silver Appleyard, Crested Pekin, and some mixed. We set 14 eggs yesterday around 4, so hopefully we will have some little duckies around May 11.

I just candled & have the following development:
1/8 shipped Muscovies developing, 2/8 bloodrings
15/17 shipped Ancona developing, 2/17 bloodrings
4/6 shipped pekins developing, 2/6 bloodrings
8/8 shipped rouens developing
1/6 Mine calls developing, 2/6 bloodrings
11/13 Mine pekins developing, 2/13 bloodrings
10/12 mine runners developing, 2/12 questionable (still pretty early)
12/12 mine calls, too early to tell
Chickens-lost count but have several in lockdown with pips that were peeping at me while I was turning eggs

As you can see, some of my eggs shipped very well & others did not. My calls are also having issues with fertility at the moment so I've been sending everyone twice as many calls as they order to try to compensate for low fertility.

 

[ErikaDL]

What do these mean? =[