Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, a runner duck is cultivated in a bamboo cage, to take its eggs and meat. Indian Runner Duck

Putting Indian runner duck eggs in to lockdown. I don’t really know what days these will be on .. Today would be day 31 had the incubator ran as it should. But the fan wasn’t on for the first 5 days meaning the heat wasn’t being pushed down and around the eggs. In turn this meant none had started to develop, we resolved the fan issue. And candled on day the 10th day. Today would be day 25 from when we resolved the fan issue. Candling them today we noticed they all had been developing but some we

Set some Indian Runner Duck eggs with me. This will be a good test of the fertility before we advertise any for hatching eggs 🥚 🦆 Duck eggs take 28 days to hatch 🌡️ Incubator temperature 37.5 degrees Celsius 🥚 Eggs are placed into the incubator with the pointy end down so the air sack is facing up. If eggs are put in sharp-end-up, the head of the embryo is at the opposite end from the air cell and internal pipping is impossible. It is very difficult for the embryo to hatch in this position b