The species are:
1)Muscovy duck (Goose)
(Cairina moschata) ***
2)Black Bellied Whistling Duck
(Dendrocygna autumnalis) ***
3)White faced Whistling Duck
(Dendrocygna viduata) ***
4) Fulvous Whistling Duck
(Dendrocygna bicolor ) ***
5) Snow Goose
(Chen caerulescens )
6) Comb Duck
(Sarkidiornis melanotos )
7) American Widgeon
(Anas americana )
8)Green-Winged Teal
(Anas crecca carolinensis)
9) Mallard Duck
(Anas platyrhynchos )
10) Northern Pintail
(Anas acuta )
11) White Cheeked Pintail Duck
(Anas bahamensis )
12)Blue Winged Teal
(Anas discors )
13) Southern Pochard
(Netta erythrophthalma )
14) Ring Necked Duck
(Aythya collaris )
15)Lesser Scaup
(Aythya affinis )
16) Masked Duck
(Nomonyx dominicus)
17) The Northern Shoveler
(Anas Clypeata)
Hi Dr Mohammed,
Dr Deeming from the University of Lincoln would be the academic most likely to have an answer for you.
Also, you might try contacting hatcheries that have duck and geese eggs. They should be able to give you some idea.
Good luck,
Daniel
You can use temperature and RH for incubating chicken eggs but, once a day,you have to turn the incubator off, pull the egg trays out and spray the eggs with distilled water and put the tray back into the incubator and turn it on again to continue incubation. I am assuming that your incubator has automatic turning device to turn the eggs.
Dear Dr. Mohammed,
You can try the following books for start:
Anderson Brown, AF (1979) The incubation book. The World Pheasant Association.
Ashton, C (1999) Domestic goose. Crosswood Press.
Deeming, DC (2002) Avian Incubation. Oxford University Press.
Kear, J and Hulme, M (2005) Ducks, geese and swans. Oxford University Press.
Further, I work for a small scale commercial duck and goose hatchery in Ireland and I can provide you some information. However as it was mentioned above, Dr. Deeming is a well known poultry scientist who can also help.
Good luck,
Attila
I worked many years as a zookeeper and even did some avian research on storks and ibises with several large zoos in the USA. You really should not try to rely only on books and wildlife management academia, but ask for help from birdkeeper staff at your nearest large zoo or birdpark. Many species respond quite differently to artificial incubation, and much of the details around this is acquired only by many years of trial and error. There are many bird curators in the AZA who could help....and some may have a great interest in promoting your research and even lending you their resources. I highly recommend the folks up at the Miami Metroparks Zoo, the Jacksonville Zoo (call Forrest Penny if he still works there) or Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando FL. Disney and some other large zoos even fund researchers on joint projects involving their staff.
Mr Riyadh Mohammed
You can use chicken incubators for hatching the duck eggs. Duck eggs require more humid condition during incubation. Spraying water on incubated duck eggs may also simulate the high humid condition. The incubation period may vary from species to species for example the Muscovy eggs are to be incubated for 35 days where as most of the duck eggs require only 28 days of incubation.
Have a good luck.
Dr Bhanja
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