How do you handle duck eggs. A pair of ducks left 2 eggs, One on water and one on land.?

What is the best way to successfully hatch these eggs.
Answers:
Ducks Lay An Egg A Day For 12-24 Days Before Setting, The Duck Wouldn't Have Laid Just 2.

I'd Back Off %26 See If She Lays More.

It Most Likely Rolled In The Water, Put It Back In The Nest, But Mark It With A Pencil 1st So You Know Which One It Is, If No Other Eggs Were Laid %26 The Mother/Father Duck Is Not Setting On Them In 5 Days Come Back %26 Put Them In A Incubator, At 100.5F For 28 Days At 50% Hum. %26 Up It To 80% Hum. 3 Days Before Hatch Turn Them Atleast 3 Times Aday Until Day 25 Then Stop Turning Them So They Can Set Up For Hatch.

Eggs Can Set For 2 Weeks Before Needing To Be Put In The Incubator, Also If The Egg That Was In The Water Was There For Less Then 3 Days It Could Still Be Good.


EDITED TO ADD:
Yup, kerlyran Your Duck Will Lay Her Full Clutch THen Go Back %26 Brood Them So They All Hatch On The Same Day.

If She Didn't Do It Like That She'd Have A 2 Week Old %26 A Day Old At The Same Time %26 At That Ages They Have Dif. Needs.

The Embryos Will Not Start Growing Until She Sets %26 Then It Will Take 28 Days From When She Sets Until Hatch.

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I'd guess that the one that was in the water simply isn't going to be any good, and the one on land may not be, either. You would need to place them in an incubator in order for them to hatch...and just give them time. But it may be too late to do anything for them at all.

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The one in the water is most likely not going to make it and the one on land is fine as long as it gets it the incubator before ten days. Each day that it is not in the incubator there is a less and less chance it will not hatch.

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I was just going to post a similar question! WE have hd two ducks adopt out back yard pool as their home. The female dug a hole in our planter next to our kitchen, and laid an egg. She then disappeared until the following morning, when she seemed to settle on her egg. She left an hour or so later, and then there was another egg! Now, the following day, she is back at hr nest. So, I guess the poultry breeder is suggesting that she does not stay on her eggs until she has finshed laying all of them. I have a pair of mallards... they seem to be awfully social; they have even curled up mere inches away from my very large dog and had a nap. Whwnever we go outside, they stop whatever they are doing and waddle up to us to check us out. This is going to be a very entertaining few weeks!