Re: eggs scattered by gales

Ewen wrote:
We have a pair of young muscovies, and the female has been sitting on
her first clutch of eggs diligently for about a week. The gales
destroyed the 8' by 6' shed she was nesting in and the nest was
scattered. Ducks and other birds are fine it seems but half the eggs
were cracked and the remainder were cold for a long while. I have
gathered them up and put the undamaged ones in the straw in a small
kennel holding the muscovies tonight. Will these eggs be viable or
will the chilling and upending of the shed have killed them off? I
didn't want to take the eggs away tonight as she was crying for them
when she saw the bowl with them in...

How did you get on ?.

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