Two Muscovy ducklings hatched from incubator this morning!!!!

[lilchik]

I am so "eggcited"!!!

I tried to hatch Muscovy eggs before with 0 out of 24 hatching.

So I tried a second time with 12 eggs. First time was in the incubator. Second time I put the eggs under Silkie chickens, they set for about 3 weeks then abandoned the nest...ugh!

Luckily the eggs were still warm in one nest, so I brought them inside, candled them and found only two eggs with viable ducklings inside. The other eggs were all bad, some never started to form, others looked like early deaths. I quess the 2 hens could tell they were bad and thats why they abandoned their nest. I put the 2 eggs in the incubator and they continued to grow, moved them to the hatcher friday, had first pip last night and when I got up this morning had 2 Muscovy ducklings in the hatcher!

 

[duckyfromoz]

Congratulations on the hatch.. They are little cuties. So glad to hear that after all the problems you still managed to get two to hatch.

 

[luvchicks8]

Congrads they are so cute!!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

So very cute!

Congrats, and incubating eggs is all about trial and error, sometimes things just happen. I seen someone on here had bought and incubated 40+ eggs spent over 120$ and only got about 9 chicks out of it and they are experienced breeders/hatcher.

just the luck of the draw.

again congrats and more luck in the future!