Duck Hatching Eggs

A Quick, Pithy Guide to Duck Eggs for Sale

Hatching duck eggs in the UK has become a pastoral pastime. You can add to your country home by stocking its pond with waterfowl born on-site. These ducks will call your pond home, and though they may flock to a warmer climate for winter, they’re known to return once warmer seasons return.

Yes, the fertile duck eggs can be used in recipes like balut and hot vit lon. They're also popular for use in baking, especially with pastries. They are also suitable for breeding or teaching purposes. As with any kind of edible egg, they need to be properly refrigerated and eaten when fresh.

Many eBay sellers offer multiple shipping options. Choose an option that provides delivery to your door, because you need to collect the package and store them with the pointed end down for 12 hours. Package tracking can help you be home to accept the eggs and immediately place them in the appropriate environment.

Bringing your duck eggs to fruition as hatched baby ducks requires a few key pieces of equipment, also offered in this category on eBay. You will need an incubator, egg candler, a bird magnetic sexer, a brooder thermometre, incubator hatching mats, which come in sets of three or in large rolls, and poultry clip leg rings for the afterbirth. Some incubators come with built-in candlers. Incubators vary vastly in size from those capable of seven eggs to those that can handle 500 eggs. Another important item is a book on birthing and rearing waterfowl, whether you are teaching a class or this is your first time starting a flock. Also, consider very light sandpaper so that you may dust off dirty eggs before incubating them.

eBay offers a wide range of duck hatching eggs for sale in the UK. You can find mallard duck eggs for sale in the UK as well as Eton, Aylesbury, Cayuga, Indian Runners, Khaki Campbells, Magpie, and Pekin, also called Cherry Valley, duck eggs. You can even find Mandarin duck eggs. Each seller includes information on the ducks that laid the eggs and specifics as to the date range in which you need to candle the eggs. Look for free-range ducks in a clean laying environment to produce the best eggs. Typically, you need to candle eggs within 14 days of the shipping date.