Making the decision to expand your flock the old-fashioned way when you raise ducks is always an exciting time.
Placing the viable eggs in an incubator or letting their diligent mother sit on them and try to hatch them, it is definitely going to be an experience when they first pip and the new arrivals enter the world.
But it’s also easy to wind up anxious, afraid and upset if you don’t know how long the process of hatching should take.
Is everything okay? Are the eggs viable at all? Have you done something wrong? Just how many days does it take for duck eggs to hatch?
Although you can’t quite set your watch by them, ducks hatch very reliably within the timetable of 27 to 35 days.
With precious few exceptions, they will never hatch earlier and if it takes longer than day 35, there is likely a serious problem.
But, that’s all just part of the process whether or not you try to raise them in an incubator or let mom take care of it.
