i have used my pigeons to hatch my duck eggs before it takes 27 days for them to hatch. give or take a day. if you have a spare tank , sumersable heater , dish to put eggs in thermometer, two bricks, some vermiculite and a glass top you can make your own incubator
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i have used my pigeons to hatch my duck eggs before it takes 27 days for them to hatch. give or take a day. if you have a spare tank , sumersable heater , dish to put eggs in thermometer, two bricks, some vermiculite and a glass top you can make your own incubator
i use a hovabator for geckos and it holds temps within about 2-3 degress, i got mine for 40 bucks shipped. im sure you dont want to pay for one though, just look up homemade incubators on google, im sure a duck egg is similiar enough to a chickens so you could follown directions for incubating chicken eggs.
Mate in the long run it might cause more trouble than good, It's great that you care about the eggs and the ducks, but unfortunatley it's nature.
Anyways, a cheap way to make an incubater just in case you plan on still keeping them (you prob will keep them, lol) is, put them in a shoe box and wrap it in cotton wool, put a lamp directly over them and keep that on, make sure it stays around the same temperature though. Last important thing, make sure you rotate the eggs about every hour, really gently. You need to move the eggs around so that the developing chik does not stick to on side of the egg, or even get their face stuck to the shell, it's importaant to do this because it stops alot of deformities..
Anyways, a cheap way to make an incubater just in case you plan on still keeping them (you prob will keep them, lol) is, put them in a shoe box and wrap it in cotton wool, put a lamp directly over them and keep that on, make sure it stays around the same temperature though. Last important thing, make sure you rotate the eggs about every hour, really gently. You need to move the eggs around so that the developing chik does not stick to on side of the egg, or even get their face stuck to the shell, it's importaant to do this because it stops alot of deformities..
I pity the duck's parenting skills. Crushing the eggs by itself is quite a blow. I've never seen ducks crushing eggs and my grandparents raise a lot of ducks in their farm.
Lol, more trouble than good? Have you ever kept a duck before??? 
Anyways, I have somewhat of an incubater, it's a bucket, lid with hole in the middle, pine needles moss and such, and a human heat pad, keeps them 98-100. I have the time to turn them 2 time's before school and 3 times after, I'm not sure about the night shift though.
Anyways, I have somewhat of an incubater, it's a bucket, lid with hole in the middle, pine needles moss and such, and a human heat pad, keeps them 98-100. I have the time to turn them 2 time's before school and 3 times after, I'm not sure about the night shift though.
Lupin;3138779; said:
No, not the mother duck, I'm guessing it was another male killing her batch of eggs to earn the right to mate with her. I've seen it happen once before, but was too far away to do anything.
By the way, I went back to the nest to check for more, and turns out I did find more. By digging deeper I found about 5 eggs, candled them and all were alive.
