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Sad day, the last two eggs from my cayuga turned out to be duds. I was hoping for two broods so I pestered my MIL and she gave me 15 of her duck eggs! 7 from a pekin with a campbell, and 8 from one of last years pekin/campbell ducklings with either the campbell or another of last years...

One of ducks has a swollen toe. I didn't realize how rough her mate was being until she started limping, he has since become dinner, but her foot just keeps getting worse. The trouble is I don't know how to catch her without upsetting my broody duck since they're in the same pen and they all...

Thanks! I'm very new to this so I really have no idea what I'm doing lol.

I candled my duck eggs, 8 of them, a few days ago. Two were rotten, four more were just duds, and two looked like maybe they had embryo shadows. All but one of the six culls were not fertile to begin with including the two rots, the one that was fertile had no growth at all so I think I must...

Thanks for the help! :)

Thanks! Any tips on bringing up the humidity for hatching? Can I use a spray bottle?

Hi, I'm new here, and new to hatching eggs. I had hoped not to have to but a fox scared one of my ducks off of her nest (it jumped on the roof but never managed to get inside the fence, the opening of the nest box leads into the pen but the box itself is outside the pen). I rigged up a...