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I set 24 duck eggs, of those only 12 were fertile. Of the 12 fertile eggs I had 3 blood rings when candled after two weeks. All three blood ring eggs were from the same hen; fluke or something else? We had 9 eggs make it to lockdown. One of the Buff x Cayuga ducklings pipped, then I found it...

Hey y'all :frow I set 24 Cayuga and Cayuga x Buff eggs this past Sunday. I didn't even realize they are scheduled to hatch on Easter until my mom pointed it out! I'm so proud of my girls this year for laying these wonderfully dark eggs!

The first bantam blue egg baby has hatched and says good morning!

I agree. I've hatched plenty of barnyard mix chicks, around 50 ducklings, and other breeder's Marans eggs and not once have I had something like this happen. My only culls have been for bad color, or bad body type. Those I just put out to pasture with the egg layers. I had one chick that had...

"Did you use the same hen for the original hen and the same hen out of the first hatch?" No. In the second experiment, I used one of the other 'Original Hens' I was given. I used the same 'First Hatch Hen' in both experiments. She was the only female from the first set of eggs hatched from...

I was given a breeding quad of Black Copper Marans. I was extremely excited to try my hand at incubating Marans, but I’ve hatched some chicks with a foot deformity and now I’m hesitant to hatch more. I was told the rooster and hens were sourced from two different lines (GFF hens and Davis/LP...

I just lost a hen with similar symptoms to egg peritonitis. She was acting off so I put her in my 'ICU Pen'. She wasnt eating or drinking much and wasnt laying. The not laying worried me. After 4 days I found her rolled over on her side. I picked her up but within 24 hours she fell back over...

$14 TJs bantam blue egg layers

Haha, buying chicks anywhere is a dangerous task! Chicken math will get ya every time. The good news is you will be able to tell pretty quickly if any are male. I can always call it 100% by week four, referencing the feather coloring and comb size/color.

If it helps, here's a picture of some chicks I've hatched. The first two are CCLB males, the third chick is an olive egger, the fourth is a CCLB female.

They all look like female chicks to me. My males are always really light colored, with very faded markings and a big yellow spot on the head. I've had a couple of chicks that were colored with female markings and a tiny spot like that, and they grew up to be hens. When I researched it, I...

We have these (wild) on our farm! About 10 or so years ago, a neighbor had one living in the woods behind his hunting cabin. I kid you not, that bird would run out and greet him every time he walked by that patch of woods. It would stop and let him pet it!

Thanks! It is definitely a lot more work than building with new materials but the savings were worth it for me. My advice would be to collect about twice as many pallets as you think you will need, take measurements and determine which will work best for front wall, side walls, back wall and the...

I just built a pallet coop for ducks this fall. Total cost was just over $70 but I had a lot of left over materials from my other projects. The walls are pallets, assembled board and baten style with boards pried off other pallets. The roof is two pallets with a 4x8 sheet of 1/2 plywood, tar...

@kwhites634 Not sure if you need it or not, but I use blocklayer.com for a lot of my projects. Free calculator for many things, always use it for my roofing. You just enter the measurements you have, and it will calculate everything else you need. It even provides diagrams (basic but still...

The last Cayuga hatched last night! I had 15 viable eggs to start, had 2 Buff eggs quit around 2.5 weeks. Locked down 4 Buffs and 9 Cayuga, this morning everyone is in the brooder having a blast! MC, your chickie babies are sooo cute! And so sorry to see you lost some, that always sucks. Hope...

I bought the large. I figured it would heat the max amount of chicks I can hatch and (so far) I never do staggered hatches so one would do it. So, I'll be buying another one before the years up I'm sure... I've only used it for a day and I love it, so much better than a lamp!

I did get some help but thank you for replying! Gives ya piece of mind when you know you aren't the only one. As for having to pick it up, I was doing that too. Then I said screw it and just started using the camera on my phone :D

I've got 6 Cayuga eggs left that haven't hatched. Two have large pip holes and I'm thinking they will hatch tonight. Two more just have their first small pip. Two more have pipped in the last hour but on the wrong end! The last Buff duck was the same way so hopefully these two make it out as...

Hooray!