All 8 of the eggs my marans pullet sat for me hatched. So now I have a brooder full of babies, im so happy! She is still sitting too, with 5 more eggs on day 10 now. I'm going to give the poor girl some call ducklings or serama chicks to raise when i pull those, she deserves some babies after...
More hatching today! Woohoo! I have mealworms in the brooder and chick feed, anything else i should give them to eat? Love the little guys, they are so stinkin cute. All flat and pancake shaped compared to my calls, lol, and they have such thick down!
My first mandarin duckling! Ive got an external pip and 3 more internal ones, so hopefully company is on its way for him! I lost my pair somehow last week,so super excited to get these. :)
Ive got 3 mandarin eggs in my incubator, my hen has 4 in her nest so far. The incubator eggs are about day 6 and look to me like they are growing well. Ive read they don't do well in incubators, but can't find much information on why or what to watch for, anyone have experience incubating them...
I moved my mandarins into their new pen today.I still need to add a few things to it, and I'm putting shade cloth around the bottom of the chainlink side for some more privacy for them. They seem pretty happy though, and are loving having a bigger pool.