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Rouen hatch failure

March 28, 2015 by SWestfall3

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Well, the Rouen duck hatch was a failure. One duckling out of 20 eggs isn’t good hatch rate.

But because the remaining duckling needs companionship to learn how to be a duck, a trip to the feed store was due.

Two Rouen/mallard crosses, which are sold as “mallards” this time of year, and two pudgy, lazy pekins were added to the brooder. The Rouen that hatched is the duck in front  of the pekin that is lying down.

I used to incubate chicken eggs when I was a kid, and not a single egg hatched.

For just a few ducks, I don’t think incubating is worth it. Plus, it is crushing when you have one that was able to pip through a shell and then die, which is what happened this morning.

All the eggs in the Janoel incubator are dead. The embryos formed so perfectly for 3 weeks, and then they just died.

These five will be a good start to a flock, which will likely be augmented with Khaki Campbell mutts as the summer progresses.

So the Rouen hatch was a failure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged domestic duck, domestic mallard, mallard, Pekin duck, Rouen duck | 8 Comments

8 Responses

  1. on March 28, 2015 at 6:01 pm pondpawed

    I’m so sorry. That sounds very discouraging, but it’s good you have company for the duckling now. I look forward to watching them grow.


  2. on March 28, 2015 at 6:06 pm pippakin

    Not a failure surely, one lives and s/he looks healthy. Perhaps when you look back you will find you have learned something that will give the next hatch a better survival rate. I hope so. I enjoy your posts.


  3. on March 28, 2015 at 6:46 pm Janice

    Having you been watch the PA Game Commissions live cam on the Hanover eagle nest? Two eaglets.


  4. on March 29, 2015 at 4:17 am dorothea penizek

    Why did they not hatch properly?


    • on March 29, 2015 at 8:10 am retrieverman

      Bad incubators.

      One incubator just didn’t hold humidity very well, and the other one didn’t hold heat very well.


  5. on March 30, 2015 at 1:12 am Kai

    Awww, that’s a shame :(

    The new ducks look cute together with the Roen though :) It’ll be interesting seeing the differences as they develop together.


  6. on April 1, 2015 at 5:39 am Calinours

    As there are strong and intelligent working retrievers and also too heavy and a little dumb show retrievers ; there are two kinds of ducks Rouen: French Rouen duck (an ancient and rare breed that are known and which is almost exclusively in France) and modern Rouen duck (an English creation for poultry shows!), the English Rouen duck is a big supertype duck that is not known to be very fertile, it heavy and awkward, fertilization is more laborious!


    • on April 1, 2015 at 7:45 am retrieverman

      There is also Rouen Clair, which is lighter in color but similar to what we call the “production Rouen.”



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