Advise on hatching and raising Ducks?
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Anas rubripes – uncommon American duck raising its brood in a Bay View water storage pond Milwaukee County Wisconsin.
Question by tinkerchel1990@yahoo.com: Advise on hatching and raising Ducks?
iv always wanted to have a duck, but id like to raise it from egg. any tips and help?
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3 Responses to Advise on hatching and raising Ducks?
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I am pretty sure it is 28 days for normal ducks but it is 35 days for Muscovy ducks. You should double check this info.
I recommend these websites;
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/poultry/species/duck-raising/egg-production
http://www.ehow.com/how_2054909_hatch-duck-eggs.html
http://www.duckhealth.com/hatcduck.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_6585283_hatch-bird-egg-incubator.html
Currently, I am trying to hatch chicken eggs!
I am on day 20 as of today, the 19th of October, 2010.
^_^
But I was at one point deciding on also hatching duck eggs!
Start of this month but then found out that my friend does not have fertile duck eggs.
Anyways, I recommend the sites above.
This one;
http://www.howtoincubate.com/
Has info on hatching chicken eggs but it should have some info on duck eggs as well.
Hope I helped!
Goodluck!
Nel
October 3, 2011 at 7:16 am
A toaster oven will work, too. Make sure to keep the temperature around the egg at 99.5, turn the egg four times a day – moms do it every couple of hours. Keep a damp sponge near the egg. Eggs need humidity. PLEASE KNOW IF U HATCH THE DUCKLING HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE IN WATER. HE WILL DROWN
Namita C
October 3, 2011 at 8:00 am
Ducks are not great “pets” to be honest, they are quite a responsibility, you have to be around every day to let them out, feed them and put them away at night (they don’t go in to roost until its dark). If you go out for the night someone responsible has to do this for you.
If you did want some duckjs you would be better off buying a few ducklings in the Spring (not many hatching eggs available in winter) rather than attempting to hatch them yourselves, you would need to buy an incubator, make a brooder with a heat lamp for the first week or 2 until they can go outside. Duck eggs take 28 days to hatch, there is a wealth of information on the internet about hatching eggs if you decide to buy an incubator, you need quite a high humidity in the final 3 days with duck eggs.
They are only cute and fluffy for about a week, they are fully grown ducks by 6-7 weeks of age and this is when you can tell if they are male or female. They are noisy, messy birds that need to be kept outside on grass with a pond or deep tray to swim/dabble in. They need a secure predator proof fence to keep out foxes etc and a coop/shed so they can be shut away at night. They quickly make mud out of your garden and poop big splats of poop everywhere.
Also you need more than 1 duck, they are sociable creatures that need company of their own kind. If you buy/hatch ducklings you could end up just with males (drakes) which don’t lay eggs and get quite frustrated without female ducks.
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October 3, 2011 at 8:26 am