Well we ended up having 4 girls, 2 boys and one that couldn't really tell. We kept two females, one of triplets with the white wing tips and the baby brown one. Not sure how we got brown from black and white parents but ok lol. And in good news all the other 5 are sold and the last two are going...
We are going to keep two of the female hatchlings, a friend of ours grew up on a ranch and knows how to sex hatchlings. I've read on how to do it but am not comfortable doing it myself. I have 3 of the other 5 sold already
Yeah I love their little chirps, wish it was warmer so they could be outside. Luckily most of them are going to other homes so I won't have 7 in the house all winter.
Yeah I've read a lot about them. That's why I was so glad both of our crested ended up being males. As pretty as the cresteds are I wouldn't have bought them knowing what caused the crest. I was comfortable mating them with our Cayuga because genetics says that only 25% of the hatchlings should...
We bought them as ducklings. No problems when they were young. And so far the only hatchlings that have the crest are Don and Miracle, all the others appear to be normal.
Haha I love the name Tiny! Yeah I love their crests. The two crested ducks are the Drakes that fertilized the eggs, they both had pretty good size crests.
Here are the Magnificent Seven
This is Don (because his crest currently makes it look like Don King)
This is Miracle, Miracle was stuck in its shell and we had to help it out.
We haven't come up with a name for #3 yet.
Here are the triplets, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. And the grey one hasn't...
Unfortunately, it didn't make it. Not only could I not see any movement in the egg when I candles it, the little one never changed position between candling.
As for the Magnificent Seven, they are doing great! They are in two separate brooders otherwise there wouldn't be enough space for them...
7 has met the other three little ones (Huey, Dewey and Louie) but not the bigger ones yet. #8 I believe has passed away before hatching. We were gone today, out in the mountains finding our Christmas tree, and when we got home the thermometer and humidity gauge that controls the incubator had...
Never, again. Lol. It was a lot of fun but once time came for lockdown and we had to manually turn the eggs and trying to find a happy medium with humidity it was just craziness. I did love giving each hatchling individual attention as they hatched but from here on out I'm going with a smaller...