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Question

How can you make a makeshift incubator for duck eggs. I have tried putting some duck eggs in a box with some papertiles and a hot water bottle. I wonder will that help incubate the eggs. Also about how long can a mother duck stay off her eggs after she lays them. I have shined a flash light over the eggs but all i can see is liquid and one of the eggs have cracked open and all I say was a yellow liquid. Does this mean that the egg is not fertile or rotten.

Answer 1

You need to buy an incubator they sell cheap styrofoam ones!

Answer 2

You should go own www.ebay.com or a pet shop an order just a cheap styrofoam incubator, I have hatched several litters of duckling with these it is very simple. The incubator usually comes with instructions on how to hatch different types of eggs. We have mother ducks are ducks usually lay several eggs up to 20sometimes then they start to sit. They do get up for about 30minutes at least once or several times a day to eat and get water. But when it gets closer to the hatching date the less they get up. But I find hatching duck eggs to be the easiest. Just remember that it is not good to shake them or move them, you need to be gentle with the eggs. We usually use a light point pencil to put a X on one side an a O on the other so when we turn the eggs you will know which side to turn them over to next, we find it to be a lot easier this way. On the final days when they do go to hatch leave the incubator shut, we don't usually open it until the duck has fully hatched, then you slightly open the incubator take it out and put it under a light to dry, with in a few hours it will be up and walking around. The eggs you have right now are probably rotten. Good Luck!