Recent content by Snoozeys

The sex of these ducks has me confused ... while the seller is insistant that the 2 older one are definitely female ... the neck ring and colouring of the older 2 suggest males !!! Is it possible they are discoloured due to a recessive gene !!!

Chickens wont touch the dry worms but ducks can't get enough of them .. packet says 40% protein

Being sold as pure

Found these 3 which i like the look of better !!!

While i have a saxony drake i want to get him a friend or two but i dont want to cross bred him !!!

While looking for saxony ducklings i came across this ad which troubles me ... the yellow seems right but the darker ducklings seem too dark to me ... so could anyone identify what breed they are ???

On a few occasions when i wasnt aware of the eggs development stage i had left the dividers still in ... once i saw they had pipped i quickly removed them ... a few times they had hatched before i realised and found a chick with its head stuck !!!

In short i had a fox attack my broody pen ... i lost 6 silver laced wyandottes and my breeding pair of saxony along with 14 eggs the wyandottes were sitting on that were due to hatch christmas day !!! 1 egg survived which has since hatched but has since died for another reason !! 2 nites later...

With sadness i report i lost my mating pair of saxony but my single offspring survived !!!!

I have this incubator ... only thing i have to add is if you leave the dividers in the chicks get there stuck in the dividers ... happened to me a few times !!!

Would the cd/dvd hanging from a tree work in this case ... i know it works on some birds of prey !!!

:goodpost: Too funny

I can only go from my experience from years ago ... temperature and humidity should be the same ... your surface area of water needs to be greater to give yourself greater humidity !! 40% humidity is fine for the first 18 days ... try a sponge or cloth in the water tray ...

Currently in lockdown so hoping i get something from it

I have a few eggs in lockdown currently ... 65% humidity ... those pictures are good as a reference !!!