Who's Hatching Ducks? Hatch With Us!! *Page 3*

[shelleyd2008]

Yeah, I don't know what happened there. I'm thinking it's from them being in with the quail eggs. I was told not to 'cross-contaminate' quail eggs with chicken eggs, so I would think that would go for other kinds of eggs as well.

 

[SportTees]

Very helpful info on here

 

[raindrop]

18 of my Dutch Hookbill eggs due to hatch the 20th, will candle on Monday and post an update. I drew my own calendar on a blank sheet of paper with instructions on when to candle, start and stop turning, etc. and posted it over the incubator. I cross off each day as it passes, and a month is a long time!

 

[DuckyBoys]

I candled my first two lavender goose eggs today and BOTH are developing! Thank you CORANCHER!

Tomorrow I start turning Raindrop's and Shadyglade's pilgrims and the 4 lavenders I got from Ebay. That will be a HUGE group if they all hatch.

I found 4 call eggs in the pen this morning but it was so cold I figured I should just put them in bator ...LOL... so I can prevent any of you guys on my list from getting substandard eggs.

Now I have 11 call eggs in there...

Tomorrow the weather is going to warm up and I will start collecting calls for shipping. I should know something about fertility by Tuesday and maybe the first batch can go out.

I still have 15 white runners coming from Golden Egg Farm and 4 more lavender/blue eggs from Ebay. If anyone wants really NICE white runners, I highly recommend Kate at Golden Egg. I had 100% fertility with shipped eggs last year and I hatched out 5. Not bad for my first time.

After all that I'm done hatching - I'm gonna let my calls go broody after I send out my batches and then they can take care of everything.

My first hatch is 11 days away (buff goose and white runners) - what a long 11 days....then I have hatches like every few days, YAY!

Hatchety hatch hatch hatch...

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I'm getting buff eggs from shadyglade too!!

I can't wait! You are the one with the white calls, right? You should send those cold eggs to me, and let me see if they are good!

 

[bangor777]

OMG!!!! I've told you guys that I'm not sure how long silky duck eggs need to incubate, so this morning I couldn't resist and candled one of my eggs (day 24 today) and the duckie is pipped into the air cell!!!!

I almost fell over! I quickly and carefully put the egg back in, I could see the little ones head clearly in the air cell....moving around. So when might it pip? I've heard duck eggs take a while to hatch. So nervous now!

 

[BackSwampGirl]

Good Morning,congrats on the little duck.But try not to open again until it hatches and is dry.Ducks are usually ready to hatch between 25-28 days.But if we open them too much,open the bator they could drown,and I don`t mean that ugly by no means.Because I love my little ducks.Look at what all I have got,lol.That tells you I got alot of them.Good luck,wish u well.It will get out sooner than you think.I got to stop turn on my one duck egg tomorrow.And it is looking good too,Hang in there,let meknow when it hatches,Ok.Sandra

 

[bangor777]

I won't open it again, just a bit lost on my dates! So I take it you've hatched ducks before? This particular egg was rocking yesterday, I'm praying it might hatch before tomorrow night because I've got a 12 hour shift monday morning (I'm a nurse)and I want to see at least one hatch!

 

[DuckyBoys]

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LOL...yeah...but they were soooooooooooo cold, and a little pitiful...I just HAD to put them in the bator!

Oh, I got pilgrims from Shadyglade - she sent LOTS of them, actually Raindrop did too - it was like Pilgrim Christmas that day!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Congrats everyone!!! Can't wait to see more pics! I tossed the other runner eggs last night

all 9 of them. I candled and they all seemed to be full-term but dead. They had HUGE air cells but only one had pipped into it. Maybe they did drown from opening too much

I told DBF not to open it and leave the hatched ones in there but he didn't listen.

We're very pleased with the 6 we got though, and that's really plenty for us first-time quackers!