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| First Post Posted on: 03-26-13 04:42 PM |
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I see that this site has so much of hatching eggs for sale. This is the list that I got from this site. Regular Mandarin Duck hatching eggs
White Mandarin Duck hatching eggs
Regular Wood Duck hatching eggs
Apricot Wood Duck hatching eggs
Silver Wood Duck Duck hatching eggs
Hooded Merganser hatching eggs
Green Winged Teal hatching eggs
Cape Teal hatching eggs
Cinnamon Teal hatching eggs
Ferruginous White-eyed hatching eggs
Barrow's Goldeneye duck hatching eggs
Red Crested Pochard hatching eggs
Northern Shoveler hatching eggs
Indian Spot-Billed hatching eggs
Ringed Teal hatching eggs
NA Pintail hatching eggs
Bahama Pintail hatching eggs
Chiloe Wigeon hatching eggs
Pekin Duck hatching eggs
Ancona Duck hatching eggs
But I was wondering how success is the hatch rate of shipped eggs? Are ducks easy to raise? |
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| Reply #: 1 Posted on: 03-26-13 05:10 PM |
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| The hatch rates of shipped eggs are lower than of fresh, hand-delivered eggs, but of course, shipped eggs can be hatched successfully. With shipped eggs, hatch rates depends on many variables like how they are handled after they are handed over to the shipping facility. |
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| Reply #: 2 Posted on: 03-26-13 07:46 PM |
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When hatching eggs are shipped, these eggs have to go through excessive variations in climate, including temperature, humidity and pressure changes that may occur with fluctuations in altitude. Along with these climatic conditions, careless handling of the package by shipping services can decrease the successful hatch rate.
Upon doing a research, the internet folks have suggested a few tips that I found useful. I hope you can try this as well to increase the hatch rate of shipped eggs -
Clean and turn on your incubator a couple of days prior to the arrival of your hatching eggs.
Ensure you handle your hatching eggs with clean hands. Oil content in your hands may clog the egg pores.
Carefully unwrap the hatching eggs and inspect these eggs. Remove any hatching eggs that even has a hairline crack. If the hatching eggs are very dirty, a light and gentle rinsing under water will not harm them.
Allow your hatching eggs to rest for sometime in a moderately cool (65-75 degrees) temp, not too moist/wet or not too dry for 24 hours prior to placing them in your preheated incubator. Keep the eggs with the blunt (less pointy) side up and pointy end down. You can also use egg carton or egg-hatching tray for this. This resting period allows the air cell within the egg to settle back into proper position.
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| Reply #: 3 Posted on: 03-26-13 07:53 PM |
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Thanks guys.. But can you tell me if ducks are easy to raise? I found someone selling so much of hatching duck eggs here, like Regular Mandarin Duck hatching eggs
White Mandarin Duck hatching eggs
Regular Wood Duck hatching eggs
Apricot Wood Duck hatching eggs
Silver Wood Duck Duck hatching eggs
Hooded Merganser hatching eggs
Green Winged Teal hatching eggs
Cape Teal hatching eggs
Cinnamon Teal hatching eggs
Ferruginous White-eyed hatching eggs
Barrow's Goldeneye duck hatching eggs
Red Crested Pochard hatching eggs
Northern Shoveler hatching eggs
Indian Spot-Billed hatching eggs
Ringed Teal hatching eggs
NA Pintail hatching eggs
Bahama Pintail hatching eggs
Chiloe Wigeon hatching eggs
Pekin Duck hatching eggs
Ancona Duck hatching eggs
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| Reply #: 4 Posted on: 03-26-13 08:13 PM |
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| Ducks are fairly easy to raise. Runners and Campbells, are excellent layers and can produce over 275 eggs per year. Try these. |
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| Reply #: 5 Posted on: 04-02-13 11:55 AM |
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| I've had eggs shipped to me several times and I've had pretty good luck with them...it depends on the incubator too. I have about a 90% hatch rate with my little Brinsea with the automatic turner..but my hatch rate in my cheap foam incubator is about 40 or 50% and that is regardless if i got the eggs from the ducks in my yard or if i got them in the mail. Bottom line, i need another Brinsea so i can hatch more eggs!! |
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| Reply #: 6 Posted on: 04-03-13 01:01 AM |
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Thanks shicks0211. By the way, could you advice me on which eggs should I buy. I would prefer to buy those eggs that are easy to incubate as well as when ducklings hatch out which of them would be easy to raise. I have copy-pasted the list of eggs that are for sale here now for your ease. Any help would be appreciated. PRE-SALE 2013 - Smew Duck Hatching eggs - 5 eggs for one price
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Bahama Pintail Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five North American Ruddy Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
PRE-SALE 2013 - Apricot Wood Duck Hatching eggs - 5 eggs one Price
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five White Mandarin Duck Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Silver Wood Duck Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Ringed Teal Duck Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Green Winged Teal Hatching eggs - 5 eggs one price
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Cape Teal Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Red Crested Pochard Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Baikal Teal Hatching eggs - Bid and win
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Canvasback Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Indian Spot-Billed Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Cinnamon Teal Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 3 Silver Bahama Pintail Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 3 Bahama Pintail Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - NA Pintail Hatching eggs - 3 Eggs one price
PRE-SALE 2013 - Eight Regular Wood Duck Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 6 Bahama Pintail Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Silver Bahama Pintail Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Common Eider Hatching eggs - 5 eggs one Price
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Bufflehead duck Hatching eggs - Bid and win
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Falcated Teal Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Regular Mandarin Duck Hatching eggs
Pekin Duck hatching eggs
Pekin Duck hatching eggs
mallard/ white mallard duck eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - NA Pintail Hatching eggs - 6 Eggs one price
PRE-SALE 2013 - NA Pintail Hatching eggs - 5 Eggs one price
PRE-SALE 2013 - A lot of 5 Blue Winged Teal Hatching eggs
PRE-SALE 2013 - White Wood Duck Hatching eggs - 5 eggs one Price
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Regular Wood Duck Hatching eggs
Critically Endangered Ancona Duck Hatching Eggs!
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Black East Indies Duck Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
PRE-SALE 2013 - Five Snowy Call Duck Hatching eggs - Bid and win !!! No Reserve Price !!!
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| Reply #: 7 Posted on: 04-03-13 07:27 AM |
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| If its your first try at hatching I'd stay away from Wood ducks and Mandarins only because they're a little more tricky to hatch for first time...not impossible, plus the ducklings are smaller and not really what you call "domestic" Stick with Peking, Runners, mallards, and maybe cuyoga or buff ducks. I've had good luck with those and the breeds are pretty Hardy. when you order the eggs and they get to the house, have the incubator on, but put the eggs in a carton or something with the small end down and let them "rest" for a few hours before you put them in the incubator. You should be good then, and I rarely have 100% hatch rate so don't get discouraged. Candle them after about 6 or 7 days and you should see some veins in the eggs that are viable. 28 days and you'll have Duckies!! have fun:) |
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| Reply #: 8 Posted on: 04-03-13 09:30 PM |
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Hey both, sorry to disturb your conversation... But this thread seems quite interesting. I was planning to buy some more different varieties of ducks esp wild ducks.
In the last fall, I bought some mallards, muscovy and a couple other domestic breeds and they are doing well. This fall, I am going to head towards some wild ducks like wood duck and mandarin ducks. I read what shicks0211 said - Wood ducks and Mandarin ducks are a little more tricky to hatch for first time.
I have no plans to hatch out these little wild ones. But, I thought I would seek advice from shicks0211 if these wild ducks would go well with my domestic breeds. Will the situation go panicky when I introduce these new wild ducks into my domestic flock?
And shicks0211, you seem to be quite an experienced person with ducks. Do you have lots of ducks? What all breeds? Thanks! |
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| Reply #: 9 Posted on: 04-03-13 11:45 PM |
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Hey shicks, Thank you so much for your advice on these. I think I would better drop the idea of hatching eggs. I don't want eggs to go unhatched due to my mishandling of eggs. This year, I would go for ducklings. By next year, I would be more experienced in the duck world and would try hatching. By the way, I have posted some other questions in the other thread. Please help me.. Thanks again !! |
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| Reply #: 10 Posted on: 04-04-13 07:55 AM |
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| Well, it's been my experience that weather it's wild or domestic, it really depends on your flock if the new ducks are accepted. I've had several different hatches and my first "flock" started with some ducklings that I did not hatch. First flock was a Pekin, a black crested, a rouen and a mallard pekin cross..they got along famously, I raised them and then put them to free roam in the lake. Now, in my case there are a couple seperate flocks of Mallards that are wild and live on the lake as well. The mallards accepted my flock and there were no issues at all. a few months later I ordered some eggs and i got a cuyoga, 4 runner ducks, 2 buff ducks and a couple wood ducks to hatch. I raised them and put them on the lake as the others. What I've found is that the ducks that are raised together will ALWAYS stay together..in other words..i have a flock of 4, and then another flock of the rest..the two flocks do not always travel and hang out together, but they do get along for the most part..they of course have their little tassles but get along fine. They ALL come running when they see me, or my car and they'll all eat from my hand..in fact if i don't go out and they're looking for me..they'll go up the ramp right on to my deck and look in the back door window quacking for me..even the wild mallards have now adopted me. Ok..so that being said..as i said all my birds got along. about 4 months ago a lady on a farm had 3 pekin ducks she was looking to rehome because the hawks were killing them one by one..they were still ducklings and yellow..about 2 weeks old I'd say when i got them. I brought them home and in a couple weeks when they were feathered let them out with the rest. At first all was well, my flock with the buffs accepted them and it seemed took them in as their own ..but then it turned ugly. I don't know why, but all the sudden, my male buff took an extrememe dislike to one of the pekins and relentlessly chased him and in fact would attempt to drown him. It was breeding season and it was the first year the buff was sexually mature so I figured he'd settle down. he did not. He did end up drowning that duck and has now been so aggressive toward the others that they can't even come up in the yard, he chases them away as soon as he sees them. So i don't think it's wild versus domestic..i just think ducks are ducks. The wild breeds are more skitsy than the domestic..they get paniced easier, and are less trusting..even when raised from hatchlings. At least mine are. I attribute this to the fact that Woods, and mandarins are much smaller ducks..along with the fact that they're wild, They'll tame to a point, and get very aggitated and freaked out if you try to hold them..they get stressed more easily than the domestics..of course this is a generalization..there are exceptions, and I'm sure others have different experiences and can add to this thread. |
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| Reply #: 11 Posted on: 04-04-13 09:21 AM |
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| Also i should mention that it's VERY difficult if not impossible to find anyone willing to ship ducklings of the mandarins or wood ducks because they're so fragile. You can buy juvenile pairs of them for about 100 bucks and they'll ship them to you. Having the other ducks accept a new duck that is fully grown is not impossible, just wouldn't introduce a strange new duck during the breeding season because that would not go over well..lol |
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| Reply #: 12 Posted on: 04-05-13 05:24 AM |
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| By the way, do you know of anyone who would incubate and hatch out eggs and give the ducklings if we order eggs from seller? |
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| Reply #: 13 Posted on: 04-05-13 08:24 AM |
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| well, i'd be willing to do that...but the things to consider are this. There is no guarantee when you order eggs that all of them..or even any of them will hatch. Sometimes they do..i just got 5 ancona eggs and 4 of them hatched.. one may still hatch, but for some reason is a couple days behind the others and they were all put in at the same time he's moving, but hasn't even pipped yet. Then it depends on if there is space in the incubator. I am expecting some mandarin eggs in a couple weeks so I couldn't start incubating them for probaby 8 weeks or so (28 days for the eggs to hatch..2 or 3 weeks to get them) Also, once they hatch then you're having another issue..usually chicks that are shipped do fine, but again there is no guarantee..best case scenario ..all your eggs hatch and all arrive safely. if you want chicks, you can have chicks shipped to you. Either order them here..or you can order them from efowl or a number of other sites that will ship the chicks of your choice right to your house. efowl has a minimum though, i'm not sure what it is right now..but it might be 12..they aren't expensive..like 3 or 4 bucks apiece..depending on what kind you get. Now if you're talking about mandarins, wood ducks or another that isn't as domestic, then you're right..you'd have to get eggs and hatch them because you won't find them being sold as chics..at least not to be shipped because they're rather fragile as ducklings. |
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| Reply #: 14 Posted on: 04-07-13 10:46 AM |
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| Sounds great!! My friend had in fact asked me to check on this. A user @ Frankstrade asked my friend if he could get some eggs hatched out if he buys some eggs from my friend. But my friend is tied up with too many things that he will not be able to hatch out eggs. I will surely tell my friend that you would be willing to hatch out some ducklings. May be the guy would approach you and you can set a deal with this guy!! |
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