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They are upright, with the larger side up. I use one of those simultaneous turning devices where they are set upright and it has a little thingamajig on the outside so I can manually turn them all at the same time w/out opening the bator. (If that counts for something lol) What you're saying...

Here's yet another incubation question from me lol. This whole journey is so much more intimidating than using a broody darnit 10 duck eggs in the bator, about day 4. Candled today and 7 are clearly fertile and developing, only their little blood island seems to be forming too close to the...

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How bad of an idea would it be to brood standard sized ducklings and mille fleur chicks together? My dear mille fleur hen Agnes died a while back at the claws of a dog. We adored that hen and now have the opportunity to get some of her sisters' fertile eggs to hatch from the farm where we got...

Also, my incubator has a display with the temp and humidity, but the temp is off by 2 degrees, I use another 2 calibrated thermometers which show the same (I assume right) temperature. But the hygrometer might be off too. So even tho it shows 64% humidity, it may in fact be lower or higher. If...

Hello!! I bought myself an incubator recently and set some duck eggs today. However, I'm a bit confused with the humidity requirements. I live in Romania, and for some reason most romanian youtube videos and sites that I've seen seem to recommend 60-70% for the first period and 80%-85% at...

OK!! It seems like there's been a mistake on my part. 75% humidity is tremendous for duck eggs even for the first part of the incubation. Online the reccomendations seem to average 40% humidity. But my incubator instructions advise 75% and 85%-90% during lockdown which compared to what everyone...

Hello!! I bought my first incubator recently with the intention of hatching some of my duck eggs. I intend to get the eggs in tomorrow, so I plugged in the bator starting today, so I'll be sure all the temp and humidity stuff is good and well prepped for the eggs. My bator is a pretty basic...

Great, thanks!!

Forgot to add that the nutritional yeast I got is in plastic bags and it's like little flakes like these

Hello!! Pretty much the title. I have two 2 days old ducklings and I want to start adding niacin to their food, so I got some nutritional yeast for them. But is it alright to add it to their wet food? Because I am only feeding them organic food we grow on the farm, and I add water to it for the...

Thank you!! Here they are, the brownish one on the left (the one with more brown on her head) is Roach, and the one with more of a black and yellow combo is Bee. I just tried vent sexing them and while Roach is certainly female I could not really tell in Bee's case. It looked bumpier but no...

Here's the final update: 2 of the 4 did not make it, unfortunately. But fortunately, 2 DID MAKE IT! One was shrink wrapped and needed help hatching, but now they are both seemingly thriving! Can't wait to see little Bee and Roach grow. :celebrate :bow

Turns out all it needed was a but of warmth and rest. Both babies seem to be thriving now! :wee

So this is the update. The other chick was out this morning, on day 27, when I came to check. The other one had made no progress. I assumed it was shrink wrapped, and sure enough, it was. I humidified the membrane and peeled off some of the shell, until enough was peeled to let the baby get out...

Oh that's great! Thanks a lot!! Will go ahead and try it. :fl

Also the dust I have is advertised as being herbal so maybe it will be alright?

So it's in romanian but it says "ectocide", and the only thing listed about ingredients is "contains extract of Tanacetum cynerariifolium flowers 2%" I also have this as a spray

Unfortunately I have no way of getting permetherin dust for chickens where I live. I will ask around my homesteading neighborhood for a better dust than what I have but that would not really be possible either until at least tomorrow morning. I just hope the ducklings will make it out soon so I...