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

lilchik

Songster
10 Years
May 3, 2009
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I am so "eggcited"!!!
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I tried to hatch Muscovy eggs before with 0 out of 24 hatching.
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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!
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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!
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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.
 
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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.
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just the luck of the draw.

again congrats and more luck in the future!
 

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