Table incubation of duck eggs at home

Growing poultry at home is a simple process, but it requires attention and care. Incubation of chicken eggs is one of the easiest. After all, the shell is thinner, the eggs are smaller and there is no need to monitor the humidity of the air.

Duck eggs should be kept in the best conditions: the right temperature, humidity, etc. Depending on the type of duck (Peking or Musky), there are several options for hatching ducks in the home incubator, which also helps in the incubation table.

Selection and storage of eggs
Terms and conditions for incubation
We grow ducklings
- Egg incubation mode
- Timing of hatching chicks

Selection and storage of eggs

When you acquire future chicks for incubation, it is important to look at their integrity. A small crack will cause the embryo to die immediately. In addition, their transportation should be carried out carefully.

Incubation of duck eggs at home involves an examination with an ovoscope. It can be purchased at a specialty store or do it yourself.

In any case, you need to direct the light so that you can check the dark body, that is, the germ. In addition, the air chamber is also important, which in a healthy material is at the blunt end.

Learn how to properly equip eggs.

Important! A solution of potassium permanganate and water will help disinfect eggs before incubation.

Eggs of both musk duck and Beijing are suitable for hatching. Indeutokki have a weight of about 80 grams, and in volume more than Peking duck eggs. Another difference is the shelf life. Before a long process of hatching ducklings, eggs are cleaned. This is done so that at the stage of their hatching the birds are not infected.

Because with such parameters of humidity and temperature, bacteria will multiply much faster and can lead to the death of ducklings in the first days of life.

So you can clean the material with sandpaper or in warm water using the soft side of the sponge. Do not add detergents that will damage the shells.

Terms and conditions for incubation

Duck eggs are stored in a horizontal position, as they should be in an incubator, and at home they are in warm, well-ventilated rooms. Above it was stated that the eggs are cleaned from dirt.

The material of musk duck can be stored for 15 days before incubation, but it is better, of course, to put them in cultivation earlier.Peking duck material is suitable for incubation for 8 days.

Important! Of course, due to different timing of hatching, it is better not to combine the breeding of different types of ducks. Moreover, it is impossible to incubate chickens and ducks together.

The incubator sometimes has small trays for each unit of material where water is poured. This will maintain the humidity you need.

Before being placed in the incubator itself, it is necessary to check the material with an ovoscope again in order to discard the already spoiled one.

We grow ducklings

The entire incubation period is divided into three periods. But do not forget that indutines are grown for 32-35 days, while Beijing is 22-27 days. Therefore, if you put different types of future chicks in the same incubator, then tag them.

Firstly, in order to control coups, and secondly, to understand how many ducklings are left before hatching.

Egg incubation mode

Incubation of duck eggs is a long process, therefore it is necessary to observe the incubation mode using a special table. For musk:

1-7 day: t = 38 ° C; relative humidity = 60%; number of turns per day = 2;

8-29 days: t = 37.7-37.4 ° C; relative humidity = 40-45%; number of turns per day = 2;

29-35 day: t = 37 ° C; relative humidity = 70-75%; without turns.

For Peking duck all parameters are saved.

Did you know? In China, duck eggs prepare a delicacy called the "millennial egg". To do this, raw eggs are placed in a container of water for a hundred or more days. To the water add the burnt bark of oak, tea, potash and salt.

During ventilation, you can dip future ducklings in a solution of water and vinegar (1 liter of water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar) for a few seconds. This will soften the shells and help in future hatching. It is necessary to cool ducklings from the tenth day.

To do this, simply open the incubator for 20-30 minutes. Also, the ducklings need to pour water with a spray. So they dry out and air out. Then you need to turn and again close the incubator.

Airing is carried out to ensure that the embryos inside do not overheat, because the duck's skeleton begins to form around the second growing period. You can also leave the sprayer in the incubator so that when cooling there is no sharp temperature difference.

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Timing of hatching chicks

Compliance with the incubation temperature of duck eggs and other parameters that are given in the table will allow your ducklings to hatch in time. In the last days of incubating duck eggs, airing and cooling is not required.You should also not turn them over, because healthy ducklings are already formed. Muscovy ducks hatch on days 32-33 of incubation. Peking duck at 22-23 days. It is important to immediately provide the birds with proper care.

The temperature after their appearance on the light is 35-36 ° C, there should be enough light and a large space. In the first days under ducklings should be paper or cloth. Sawdust and other small bedding can injure them.

Did you know? In the Philippine Islands and Cambodia, another delicacy is prepared using duck eggs, called "ballet". It is a boiled egg with a formed embryo. - with beak, plumage, cartilage skeleton.

Breeding birds at home is definitely possible and necessary. The main thing is to reject bad material, either during storage or in the first period of growing ducklings. Use the ovoscope for culling unhealthy embryos. Thermometer and moisture meter will allow to observe the mode. And do not forget that you do not need to experiment with simultaneous different types of ducks. Or before that you need to withdraw musky ducklings, then Peking.