The Quack Shack

[Jenbirdee]

I spray when I remember, lol!

do you only spray eggs to humidify them when they’re in an incubator?? My duck eggs are under a broody chocolate Orpington hen. Will she keep them humid enough?

 

[Jenbirdee]

when should i ( try to ) candle the duck eggs that are under my hen? around 7 days?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Or 10. I candeled this morning. The three that are older and went through lots of power outages I'm not sure of. The two I put in the day after my drake was eaten have little beating hearts

 

[Miss Lydia]

when should i ( try to ) candle the duck eggs that are under my hen? around 7 days?

I've done it on day 5 and seen life

 

[Miss Lydia]

do you only spray eggs to humidify them when they’re in an incubator?? My duck eggs are under a broody chocolate Orpington hen. Will she keep them humid enough?

My Mauve Orpington hatched a Runner duckling without any trouble.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I can't decide on the spraying either - but it's only round 2, it will take some time before I can say now I've got some relevant experience and can really decide.

@New duck mommy 2021

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

@New duck mommy 2021

I have always sprayed from day 10 till lockdown
I have really high hatch rates
90-100%
Only time I got bad ones was when my bator messed up and spiked to 110 and cooler to 86 a few times
Company sent me new parts for it
I don’t spray in the bator
I pull the eggs out spray lightly
I don’t soak them
Cool for 10 mins then put them back. I don’t spray in my bator as I don’t like the high humidity spikes from it
I think of how mom does it
She goes in the pool and runs back and sits on her eggs
They get wet from moms belly
Maybe this helps soften the shell for hatching

 

[Canadian Wind]

do you only spray eggs to humidify them when they’re in an incubator?? My duck eggs are under a broody chocolate Orpington hen. Will she keep them humid enough?

I think they should be fine, even under a hen.

 

[Jenbirdee]

if I could take Frankie to a vet, what do you think they would suggest?

 

[Canadian Wind]

if I could take Frankie to a vet, what do you think they would suggest?

Perhaps and operation to straighten his foot? Or amputation combined with a prosthetic? Neither would be cheap though...