Chook Me!

Can you buy duck eggs from Poultry Farms?

I want to buy eggs to hatch for my Daycare, the kids have been asking me all year! I want to do this but... One thing that is preventing me is that I don't know where to buy them. Please Help Me! I just want 1 - 3, I am contacting a poultry farm now.

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1. Alittle late in he season, but try Murray McMurray.com...Great poultry farm to work with>>>>If not, ebay always has EGGS under "Hatching Eggs"
2. I am sure you could just post an ad on a classifieds site near you in a farming section or in the paper I just wonder what you plan on doing with the chicks after they hatch as you can not keep polutry in the city limits If you ask me chicks and children are not a good idea
3. Ducks are mammals. They don't lay eggs.
4. Yes you can buy duck eggs for hatching. Its easier to get chicken eggs for hatching because they lay eggs all year, but ducks don't. You can get other bird eggs for hatching too. These two hatcheries are good ones. http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/hatching_eggs.html http://www.meyerhatchery.com/get_dept_83.htm And just for curiosity sake, you cannot buy hatching eggs from this company but their "Cornish-Rock Broiler" chicks are the fastest-growing in the world. And they grow sooo fast that their heart cannot grow fast enough if you feed them all they want, so they die of heart attacks at a few weeks old if you don't restrict their food! http://www.welphatchery.com/
5. We have a mallard farm and sell eggs all the time. Check Craig's list in your area, that way you don't have to worry about shipping eggs.
6. Your best bet is to ask the local feed/grain stores who they know has ducks in the area. Then just approach these local neighbors and ask if they have fertile (meaning, they let the male and female ducks roam together) eggs which you can buy from them. Then, ask if they would set some eggs aside in a cool place, such as a basement, for 5 to 7 days when you can then pick up what they have collected for you. Ask that they do not refrigerate the eggs because this will wreck the hatching ability of the egg. Most ducks have gone broody and have raised ducklings by now, but Muscovy's lay for a longer period of time. I would not try to have eggs shipped in to hatch as it is too warm now for shipping and shipped eggs do not hatch as good. I would suggest at least 4 to 6 chicken eggs to hatch for the kids. By the time the hatch is over you should at least have 2 or 3 chicks. Not all eggs are hatchable. Plus you don't know the fertility of the eggs when they are not your own. You might want to think twice about hatching ducklings for small children as they are very messy, can be smelly with getting the water all over and such. Plus, duck eggs are a bit harder to hatch, needing more moisture towards the end. Baby chicks would seem to be much more suited for the situation.