Size of the incubator

[Duckmommy5309]

I have two female ducks. One is about a month older. We are first timers with ducks and we want to try and incubate eggs, but we don’t know how big of a incunator we need, or if there is just one size. So manly I’m trying to figure out how many fertile eggs two females will lay. If any of you have a tip or two that would be helpful!

 

[Pyxis]

There are lots of sizes of incubators. There are tiny ones that hold no more than seven eggs, all the way up to huge ones that hatcheries use that you can literally walk into that hold thousands.

So you want to figure out how many eggs you personally want to incubate at a time, and then buy an incubator based on that. For example, if you didn't want to be raising more than 20 ducklings at once, you wouldn't need an incubator that holds more than 20 eggs, right?

Depending on the breed of your females, they are probably going to lay way more eggs than you actually want to hatch. Even the little bantam ornamental breeds can lay up to 100 eggs a year, and production breeds up to 300. So unless you're planning on hatching up to 600 ducklings, you don't really need to worry about how many eggs your girls will lay, because you're almost definitely not going to hatch all of them