Do duck eggs change colors before hatching the egg is turnig a dark color but you can sill see baby inside I don't know if that's normal or what's wrong pease help
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Do duck eggs change colors before hatching the egg is turnig a dark color but you can sill see baby inside I don't know if that's normal or what's wrong pease help
I hatched 8 of them in an incubator a few years ago, and I didn't notice them changing colour. You may see something inside, but it may not be alive, hence the dark colour.
So you are starting now with a duck egg, what happened to the chick ?
I got 4 little chicks healthy as could be and the duck egg. The chicks are two grey and 1 black and one red with white stripes. The duck egg has been moving everyonce in a while. It changes from dark to light though and I can't figure out why this is my first time hatching. I got my two hens and two roosters when they were like two weeks old. The same with my two ducks. Do you know if ducks will lay eggs ina box like chickens if its close to ground?Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Ducks will not lay in a box. Are they Mallards, or domestic ducks? Either way they will not use a box.Quote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
They are eather Ancona or Magpie they are black and white. They are agresive to my chickens but the female lays her eggs were the chickens lay there's so th chickens sit on them. They can't fly eather but that doesn't stop them from trying. They are scared of people to they have been like that since we baught them.Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
I raised mallards, that over the years mated with domestic ducks. Had geese as well. Better get yourself an incubator.Quote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
PS... my ducks did not mingle with chickens, nor did they lay eggs near them.
Do you know what is a good kind and cheaperQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
No, my mallards were from wild stock, and they remained wild but always on and off my farm because I had a pond, breeding with other ducks in the neighbourhood.and producing a white and black duck, who were not good mothers as mallards were.Quote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
I don't know anything about domestic ducks, only geese.
O lol thanks for all your helpQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Its hatching!! What do I do every time I touch it it starts moving I'm so excited I thought it was dead but its hatching it started to peck at shell has a very small hole in itQuote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
Then don't help it, let it do it on its own. That little duckling may not survive without other ducks around.
I have its mom and dad but they won't sit they laid the egg in my chickens nest but when the chicks hatched the hen stopped laying on the duck egg its pecking but not much the hole was leaking fluid but not now should I be worried. The hole wasn't any bigger than a pen pointQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
I had ducks like that, a cross between a mallard and a domestic duck. Every time the mallards flew off for a few days, a month later I would get these odd coloured ducks flying to my farm. The white and black ducks were terrible moms. They would take the little ones off to the hay field to forage and come back with 2 out of eight (snakes get them).
Mallards are excellent parents.
I don't know about that hole, vannarea, the little think may not be alive; in any event, losing fluid from the egg would not be a good thing. It takes 28 days to hatch a tended duck egg; so how many days has it been?
That is why suggested trying to find an incubator.
Tick
The egg is about 26 to 27 days old I can hear it moving every once in a while the hole isn't leaking anymore I can't even tell where it was its very strange but it was leaking then just stopped iv'e been trying to find an incubator but I can't find one I can afford.Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
If the egg doesn't hatch in two days, then it isn't going to, and if it does (these little things fight to survive under surmountable odds!) it won't last long, sorry, but I think you are fighting a losing battle. Keep me posted.
You can actually make your own incubator, check Google, or I will when I get time.
Thanks I will o do you know anything about chicks to my four babies have fowl pox along with my two hens the stags vary with each bird do you have any idea how they get it .Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Sorry, don't know anything about chickens, or chicks, I just ate their eggs and stewed them when they couldn't lay anymore :)
Lol I don't think I could stew mineQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
The duck egg was bad. I was fixn to open it to see if it was bad and as soon as I touch it the stupid thing exploded I think my heart stopped and restartedQuote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
I could have told you that; didn't I say there were indications that it wasn't going to hatch. Maybe you will listen to me next time :)
Yeah lol but two of my chicks died today the red one wth white stripes and one of the grey ones:( they died at the vets the other two I have with me I have to dropper feed and water. I have another question why would my male duck attack my chickens?Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Ducks and geese are very territorial, especially when the female is around.
The last two chicks died this morningQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Proves, luvvy, you just can't fool with mother nature. Best to the take the high road next time; you are working too hard to save chicks that are best left to chance. Vet bills for chicks isn't worth it, vanarea, I have raised many animals on a farm, ducks, geese, chickens for the roaster and stew pot, chickens for my eggs and never once have I taken a chicken to the vet. My horse, yes, not chickens.
What you paid at the vets could have probably bought you an incubator!
It was wonderful conferring with you on all of this, vannarea :)
How old are you by the way, and what country do you live in ?
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Originally Posted by tickle
I ordered on incubator yesterday it should be in in about 2 weeks. My ducks lay there eggs on the ground and leave them how long can they sit there and still be able to hatch I can't figure out around what time they lay themQuote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
What kind of ducks are they, I don't think we ever cleared that up? Are they random colours, or are they mallards ?
It is really like any other kind of egg, chicken eggs can't lay around for long before collecting and you will have to keep a close eye on the ducks to make sure you grab some fresh ones to incubate.
What kind of climate are you in? I think I asked that before but you didn't answer. This is an international site, so it doesn't matter, we all know what countries each of us are from.
They are ancona they are black and white what time frame is it about like around how many hours can they sit on ground and be cold they lay like 1 aday but don't sit on it she lays it were ever she is standing at the time I live in Arkansas but the weather is different this year it will be like 50degrees one day and 70 the next the ducks are like 8 months old aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
I candled the egg and there is veins inside does that mean it is alive? It is 7 days oldQuote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
My new egg is 8 days away from hatching!! The difference in this on and the first is huge lol and I got 2 more todayQuote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
Good! Are they duck eggs?Quote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
Yeah and I thought my chickens had stopped laying but I found a nest of like 20 eggs todayQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
3 more days and I will have a baby duck :) I'm so excited it is starting to respond to me talking to it I can't wait but when can I let it swim for the first time?Quote:
Originally Posted by vannarea
It is going to lonely but will bond with you immediately as you are the one it sees first. That's the way it works. He will be born with a lot of down on him/her and as soon as he/she gets permanent feathers, then they can swim. The down will not give enough protection from the cold water. So you will have to wait a bit, don't remember really how long, but soon because mother duck would like to get them out in the water away from predators on land, almost right away, but can with just down feathers.
Please let me know what happens, I know this is really exciting for you. I oh so loved my mallards on the farm, they followed me everywhere, even when I wento to the pond to swim; they flew of course, but the geese would come too trailing behind, the cat following at the side weaving in out of the fence, and of course, I had two dogs at the time. All got along together, no kidding!
Except for the rooster of course, he was a nasty old thing with his spurs ready to come at me!
Take care, let me know !
My 2 roosters try to jump me ever time I go to feed lol they crazy I have a least two others that have veins but I don't know how far along and a bunch of my chicken eggs have viens ima have my hands full :) the duckling will have me and my ferret to play with. I know she won't hurt it because when my cats had babies she played with them as soon as they could see. She isa lot smaller then regularferrets she is onlt about 1/4th the size o a regular one. Oh and when will it start peeping it only moves around when I talk to it now and I only know that because I was candling it when I talked and it moved I was so excited I woke my sister and her husband up so they could see. Lol I think they tought I went crazy I was rnning around their room singingQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
They don't peep, just open and close their bills, I guess until their quackers start up :)
Lol my ducks are around 9 months old when do they start sittig on eggs usually? They lay one aday but they don't sit on themQuote:
Originally Posted by tickle
Mallards a terribly good parents, both the drake and mom will take turns sitting on eggs. But I don't think you have mallards, just domestic ducks, isn't that right?
They are notoriously terrible moms.
Yeah they are domestic. The baby is still moving in the egg but not pecking on shell .do they sometimes go past 25 days before they hatch?Quote:
Originally Posted by tickle
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