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How do I keep a Duck Egg warm?

How do I keep a duck egg warm without an incubator?

  • I found this egg by a pond where ducks live and we are guessing its a duck egg since it looks like a chickens but there are no chickens around. Its a little heavy so it may have a ...show more

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    Its no use, its dead already, and has no hope at hatching. Its harder to hatch a egg than it seems. You need it to be a certain temperature, you have to turn the egg multiple times a day, and you have to have a certain level of humidity. Next time you see an egg, leave it. An egg thats already developing cannot live more than an hour TOPS without heat. The egg will start rotting inside if you keep it. It will Bust and have a foul smelling gooey stuff come out everywhere. The heating lamp will not work, you need some humidity. You will also need a Thermometer. If you do not want to have to turn the egg every four hours for the next couple weeks and get no results, hurry and throw it out. I can tell you have Completely no experience with hatching eggs. Try looking up some websites with information about hatching eggs so the next time you will know better than to think you can hatch an egg without a incubator or a mother hen.

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you should have left it alone.. you just stole the egg from the female duck she probly was scared away fromt he nest by you.. you cant hatch it unless you have a incubator Duck eggs must be kept *moist*..

coorscowgirl101

you shouldve left it will and truely alone. use a lamp and dont have it to close to the egg. turn the egg every 4 hours

biscuitsmybabyboy14

I would suggest a heating pad, but the heating pad on Medium. With the duck egg in a towel. Also u can still use the lamp, just turn it off if the lamp gets to hot.

Regan S

It's too late - by this point, it's already dead. There is a reason why incubators are sold to hatch eggs and not light bulbs. You can use a small watt light bulb in a home-made built incubator, but you still need an INCUBATOR. It won't hatch just by shining a warm light on it. It needs a very specific, CONSTANT, temperature, humidity, and to be rotated multiple times daily.

nixity

Do you have male ducks? If not the egg won't be fertile anyway. Its impossible to incubate an egg without an incubator unless you have a broody hen that could do the job but hens don't usually go broody in the winter. Duck eggs especially need a specific humidity and temperature for 28 days until they hatch. Sorry to say you just need to throw it out, unless the mother duck has been sitting on it for a few days there will be no developing embryo so you aren't technically killing it.

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try using a heat lamp

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