how can i hatch 2 duck eggs?

Question

what would you do if you saw a mother duck on ur lawn and then looked in ur flower garden and saw 2 eggs and then brought them inside like 1 week later because its hailling and the mother duck abandoned them and then put a 1oo watt bulb close to the duck eggs so they could hatch? because this is happening to me and i dont know ehat to do for them - i dont have an incubator but i have a 100 watt bulb close to the eggs and i dont know how to hatch them. What Should I Do???? they are curently in my computer room (no incubator) HELP ME!!!

Answer 1

Get a styrofoam cooler and put 4 small holes in the bottom of it with a pencil , for air circulation. Duck eggs need a lot of moisture, so put a cake pan on the bottom of the cooler. Place some hardware cloth on top of the water. (You don't want the eggs to sit in water.) Put a wooden rod through the cooler walls, near the top of it, so the light can hang on it. Get a small light, maybe 15 watts or even 24 watts and also a thermometer that people use to take their temperature. This will tell you how hot it is, and you don't want to go over 102 degrees or it will cook your embryos .

Hang the light on the rod, and tape the cord to the side of the cooler. Add a couple of more holes in the lid, and put the lid on.
Put the incubator in the basement, if you have one. The temperature is constant there, and damper. Check the temperature often the first day, you want it about 101 degrees. After the temperature is good, only open the lid three times a day to turn the eggs, making sure that the larger (air side) is slightly higher. After a week, put the eggs in luke warm water for about 1 minuter a day. If duck eggs get dried out, the babies won't be able to break out of their shells.

After about a week, candle your eggs by holding it up to a flashlight at night. The embryos will look dark, while the yolk will look like a shadow. Blood vessels will be seen, and they look almost like spider webs. If the egg is clear or it looks like the white is swirling when you GENTLY turn the egg over in you hand, the egg is no good and won't hatch. Remove the bad eggs because they can explode, and duck eggs smell even worse then chicken eggs.

Answer 2

You should never have taken the eggs! If the mother abandoned them, there was a reason. And, if this was a wild duck, for you to have these eggs is illegal.

"All native birds are protected by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It is illegal for any person to possess nesting material, egg(s), feathers, bones or a live bird without the proper permits from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It is also illegal to harm or kill a protected bird species and it is illegal to remove or destroy nesting material. The law does not protect three birds, they are; Pigeon (rock dove), English house sparrow and the European starling.
Once a nest is established (first egg laid), it is illegal to destroy it. Never remove eggs or young from the nest. "
http://www.willowbrookwildlife.org/GuidesDetail.asp?id=1

If you have had the eggs for a week, the embryos are probably dead now, anyway. They need to be kept at a certain temperature and humidity level by the mother duck.

Answer 3

The eggs are most likley not fertile. Don't try to hatch them because they won't hatch and if they for some reason did then you would not be doing the baby birds a favor. they need to be raised by ducks not by humans. The only exception is if you find a baby chick that the mother died and you wanted to try and save, but not eggs. Throw them away.

Answer 4

Put a lighter under one to see if the embryo still looks alive, you should see something like veins, get a tank thermometer, and keep 75-85 degrees, don't moisten eggs directly this will cause slugs, but you can tightly wrap a paper towel and place under the eggs like this

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the lighting will produce enough humidity, don't soak it just moisten it, this is what I have used with snake eggs, they might have already died. Research how to hatch chicken eggs, like in 5th grade science class.

Answer 5

Get an incubator and look up on the inter net what to do.