Duck Hatching Eggs
Duck Hatching Eggs
I need your personal experience on hatching duck eggs!!!!?
i am going to incubate 12 cayuga duck eggs in this fallowing week. In a little giant incubator
I would like to hear all of your personal experience with hatching duck eggs!
thanks
I hatch duck eggs and chicken eggs. I also have the same incubator as you do.
You need temp at 98 degrees. Marking (x) on one side and (o) on other helps u to know what side they need to be on. If you have a atomatic turner with yours then you may not need to mark on them.(use pencil only). You need to have plenty of water in incubator so the ducklings dont dry up and die. Make sure the rings have water in it at all times. Turn them 3 times a day. They are to be turned until 3 days befor hatch, it takes 28 days for them to hatch so stop turning on day 25 of incubation. Check there progress by candling them with a flashlight on day 11. You will see veins and a lill baby. On day 25 you will see movment of eggs somtimes later or earlier. That normal. They will somtimes pip a hole 2 days early or on hatch day. It can taks up to 24 hrs to hatch, so be patiant. After it hatches make sur its dried then transfer them to brooder and make sure they have plenty of water, all that work they need to be refueld.
The brooder need to be pretty big to hold those babies. A big dog kennel works. I prefer a baby play pen cause of size. Put straw, towels, or puppy pads down so it will be an easyer mess to clean. Pine shavings are really bad to put down cause they can eat and choke causing death. All you need down is water, lots. No food for 1 hrs because they have some yold and need only water at that time. They need a heat lamp too until 3 weeks of age. They can swim some on day 2 of life. Make sure you keep an eye on them, they still have no fur and can get cold fast, so short times swimming for the 1st week or so. After 3 weeks they can have there own kiddy pool.
They are now able to be put outside. They need a safe pen, safe from preditors like racoons, cyotes, fox, and flying preditors like owls and hawks. The pen needs a barrier to keep them out of the pen. Long thin plywood can work and put extra chicken wire around so the preditors cant grab them. And a roof from not just flying preditors but snow and other weather. Inside needs to be a doghouse with straw in it so they can lay eggs and sleep in it.. If you dont have a pond a kiddy pool is fine. If you dont want to go through all that hassel building a pen, if you have a fenced in yard they will stay in beause they know and will stay with you. And then at night just put them in garage or shed.
and of course love them to death. Have fun!!!
any Q's ask me:
bethbethani@yahoo.com
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