A new friend of mine found a wild duck egg, from a Mallard couple that had abandoned the egg. We waited to see if they returned the next evening, but they did not. So she carefully brought the egg to our little farm to try and incubate it.
We have just a small still air incubator. We’re no where near big time. But people have incubated eggs out of these before, so we’re always hopeful.
Of course, we didn’t want the duckling, if it hatches, to be alone, so we chose one of our duck eggs to try and hatch with it. This duckling could turn out to be any mixture between a Khaki Campbell female with a Khaki Campbell male, Muscovy male or Rouen male. So it will be an interesting little guy.
I got the incubator all ready and stabilized to stick the eggs in it and we put them in this morning. Now if I’m correct with the info I am seeing, I will wait to turn the eggs until tomorrow. Then we’ll turn them about 4 times a day after that until they hatch.
I’ve researched that a duck egg takes about 28 days to hatch. But I’ll try to candle them in about a week. I’ll try and have more info on that later!
Isn’t Spring great?! God works his miracles anew each time Spring comes and it’s amazing!
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