Im having trouble getting our muscovy eggs to make it to hatch day.
Twice now we went into lockdown, with appropriate development, and they never pip.
Humidity is good and temps are good so nothing makes sense. About to try a third clutch but at this point im not super confident.
oh shoot - I'm sorry! that stinks
These are Appleyards and Khaki Campbell, and they nearly all hatched, 14 in total. We tossed one or two eggs after candling in the first week, and four of them seemed great a week ago but didn't hatch. We have one lone goose egg still in the incubator. They take more time so we'll see.
We used to have a ton of Muscovies, and they were great eggsitters and moms, but predators kept getting the ducklings (all of them! we've lost a couple hundred Muscovy ducklings over the last few years☹️). So our plan with these is to keep them penned up for a good while until they're big enough to be more of a challenge to predators.
It sounds like you're tracking temps and humidity, and you probably know that Muscovies take longer than other duck eggs. I think it's 35 days - our Muscovy moms always seemed to sit forever. Did you candle the earlier batches? That would be helpful to know where things go wrong.
