Posts by poniesforever

Well, I am unsure exactly what went wrong. Out of 25 duck eggs, I now have 4 alive and healthy ducklings. After 2 had pipped and had air holes, but never made it out of their shells, after two days... when another had pipped and was...

Thank you Amiga!   Well, this morning I have 2 ducks hatched out in the incubator. But the other egg that started to pip two mornings ago, still has just a small hole... through the day yesterday it had started to make the...

Thank you... the one that I broke open did indeed die. I don't know if I should have left it alone. I guess, I will leave the others and see what happens. I wish I had some experience with duck eggs!

I know it takes several hours for them to work their way out of their egg... but is 24 hours or more, normal..? It has been 24 hours easily... maybe more. I am just at a loss... I didn't think it would be all that different from chick...

Hi, its been a while since I have been on here. But I need some help didn't no where else to go...   I had a fairly successful hatch last year of chicks. This year my brother in law asked if I would incubate/hatch some duck...

Okay. Thanks for your help. Must be that the bigger ones will pick on the smaller ones. I will have to fix up some sort of different set-up for the small chicks out in my horse barn. The house is just to hot. And their running outta...

I have 17 chickens who are 3 months old, and they are out in the coop, and actually I have recently been allowing them to roam outside of their fenced in yard. All has been going well. I also have 18 chicks who are two weeks old,...

Well, I felt unable to give this chick the attention it would need right now. So my neighbor was willing to take it on. She feeds it with a medicine dropper for now. I guess we'll see how it goes. If the chick only had one eye, or a...

Thank you all for your help. I think I saw him eating... at least it looked like he was eating tonight. He is getting around pretty well. and huddles with the others. I did see one chick picking on him a bit once. But there are always...

Oh one more thing... are deformities fairly common in chickens? or is it a total freak thing that I happened to have, one of very few, in my batch...?