Humidity for duck eggs12/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Then things went sideways, again… As the first egg began to make chirping noises and the tiny duckling inside began to tap the inside of the shell to “pip” a hole, Jackson started to panic. Things settled down and Jackson was an excellent “egg mother” over the next few weeks. She no longer had any interest in sitting on her nest, so Jackson became the surrogate mother of Svetlana’s eggs. Then things went sideways… The Deslorelin implant shifted Svetlana’s hormones, snapped her out of being broody, and made her start to molt. Svetlana (back) and Jackson (front) tending to their respective indoor nests. Within days of sitting on nests of eggs, both ducks went broody. We set up a giant communal cage full of pine shavings, real eggs, and fake eggs so both ducks would have eggs to sit and go broody on. Svetlana (who was already an indoor duck by night), her best friend Jackson, Sir Winston, and four of Svetlana’s fertilized eggs moved inside our house, since hatching eggs outdoors in winter would be impossible. That way, we’d also be able to make sure we’d at least have her offspring if she didn’t make it. Thus, a decision was made to let Svetlana hatch eggs and experience being a mom before she left this mortal coil. (Things get a little weird around here at times, don’t judge.) Solution: let’s hatch Svetlana the duck’s eggs It was mid-January and she was still laying eggs, which we knew were fertilized via our drake, Sir Winston Duckbill, aka Winnie the Screw. The thought of losing Svetlana was heart-wrenching and we didn’t know how much time she had left. She took a turn for the worse, and we brought her to the vet, who said her prognosis was not good. Svetlana was in the midst of battling an aspergillosis infection. She was inseparable from her best friend, Jackson, another Welsh Harlequin duck. Years back, we had the tamest, smartest duck we’ve ever raised: Svetlana. Our duck egg hatching storyīefore we dive into the how-to’s of hatching duck eggs, we’d like to share our own funny story, er nightmare, that helped us learn a lot of the information included in this article… Printable duck egg incubation checklist I. Method 2: Hatching duck eggs in incubator + 6 tips for successĥ. Method 1: Momma duck hatches + 6 tips for successĤ. ![]() Duck egg incubation methods and overviewģ. 4.1 More helpful duck articles from Tyrant Farms: Table of contents:Ģ. ![]()
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