How can you take care of the duck eggs?

Answer 1

* 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! Another view: * Animals are extremely incredible and a chicken may sit on the egg and hatch it. Some dogs will mother kittens (even let them feed) and vice-versa. Dogs have been known to raise all types of baby animals. Another view: * Yes keep it warm under a lamp but do not put direct heat on the egg, and rotate the egg a quarter turn every four hours. Another view: * Also make sure to spritz the egg with water at least once or twice during the day. The moisture is needed, even crucial. Successfully, you can't - pretty much agreed (Lonchura) If hatching any egg was as simple as some suggestions here, no-one would build incubators. Most of the comments are nonsense. Not one person has mentioned the fact that control of incubation RH is as important, possibly more important, than temperature control. As pretty much all bird eggs require the same incubation conditions, so long as the bird will accept the egg(s), (they aren't too big, small or oddly coloured), any bird can hatch the egg of any another. Temperature required - 37.5C, RH around 50%.

Answer 2

Duck eggs need to be incubated since layed. Most breeds of duck dont sit on their eggs, until 6 months after starting to lay. Duck eggs need to be at a temp of around 37 degrees. Duck eggs are bigger than chicken eggs, so they are easy to tell the difference. Pekin ducks don't sit on their eggs, so broody chickens sit on the eggs for them. It is a good idea with pekin ducks to take the eggs since layed and put straight into an incubator. If you do not have an incubator put the eggs into an ice cream container with shredded paper and put a small hand twoel wrapped aorund the eggs and sit under a light warming the eggs to 37 degrees. The duck eggs take 28 days to hatch and each day move the eggs around so they get warm in every spot in the egg around 4 times a day. To test if the baby duck inside is alive do a candle test or open flame in the dark and see inside. Click the link down the bottom to read about candles

Answer 3

Either put it in an incubator, misting it with warm water at least once a day, and turning it frequently or give it to an adult female duck or even a broody chicken. Either than that, your only other choice is an artificial incubator, like a hen, or under a lamp with temperature a constant 99.5 with 50-60% humidity. You must frequently spray it and turn it. i have had many duck eggs.but my duck wont sit on them. so i took them to my gmas and put the good ones under my chickens and withen 1 minute they were siting on them.and there are 13 chickens.but 4 are siting on 3 eggs.so i would say your best shot is, if the mom duck sits on the eggs, leave them there but check on them every now and then, or get a few hens and put the eggs with them.if the chicken tosses out the eggs, it means those eggs were no good, chickens can tell, my hens nock out 2 of my eggs that were about 5 days older than the other 3.

Answer 4

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I can understand that you would enjoy hatching these eggs, but I must first tell you that the chances of success are very slim, unless you have a broody hen who would be willing to set on them. First of all, eggs that are being stored to be incubated later are usually kept at 55*F. Lower temperatures, such as in a refrigerator, decrease the viability of the eggs. Not that it's impossible for them to hatch, just less likely.

The requirements are pretty exact. Some people have managed to incubate eggs using a heat lamp. The temperature can be adjusted by raising or lowering the lamp. You should set up the lamp ahead of time and not put the eggs under it until you have it adjusted to the proper temperature. The night before beginning incubation, you should set the eggs out to reach room temperature. The next morning, they can go under the lamp. On days 1 through 25, the eggs should be kept at 99.5*F. Every four hours, around the clock, they must be turned 1/4 turn. Humidity levels must be kept right, around 86%, as well. This is perhaps the most difficult part to get right because there are no definite guidelines to use. If the mother or a hen is setting on the eggs, the moisture from her body takes care of this. Commercial incubators also provide proper humidity. Without either of those, all you can do is mist the eggs a few times a day with water at around the incubation temperature.

On day 26, the hatching period begins. The temperature should be lowered to 98.5*F. Humidity should be increased to 94%. You should stop turning the eggs. Most eggs will hatch between days 26 and 28. Any that haven't hatched by 35 days will not hatch. Even under the mother or in a commercial incubator, up to 30% of eggs won't hatch.

If you have additional questions, just let me know by clicking on REPLY. I hope you're able to successfully hatch some eggs.

Answer 5

There are many different ways to take care of an egg. But the main key is to keep it safe and warm. I found a lonely duck egg in a puddle of aligi, and decided to take good care of it I'm even building a home where the sunlight beams on it. here's a tip if you make a home for it build it to where NO animal can get it especially posims.

Answer 6

The eggs should be placed at room temperature for 24 hours, then placed in a incubator with the temperature preset. If a hen is being used, the egg can be directly placed under her, as she will slowly warm them up to avoid damaging the chicks inside the eggs.

Answer 7

you could put them under a broody chicken. it may not work but you could try a heat lamp, they need one once they hatch anyway.

Answer 8

About the only way is to let the mother sit on them. Other thatn that, there is no way to keep them the right temperature without an incubator.

Answer 9

just like you take care of a chicken egg