Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today - Page 2463

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Originally Posted by WhiteMountainsRanch 

I've only ever done chickens before not ducks... what should I do first?

Pip a hole. It's pretty much the same with chickens and ducks. Go slow, stop if you see bleeding, keep membranes moist. Just zip for them, they can push themselves out when ready (which has taken up to a day or two for mine).  Good luck!

All kinds of drama since I got home from picking up my paycheck. Got my butt blasted by someone on facebook who was offended by my photo of the smoked duck that I shared here the other day.

Having trouble getting the humidity up on my hatcher. Suggestions? I'm locking down tomorrow, so today is troubleshooting day.

Dont get me wrong, we baby everything around here even what we're going to butcher right up to the moment we kill them.  And I love the fact that some of the folks on here can keep just pets.  I'm trying to get away from store bought food. Hubby is allergic to soooo much that I would rather know where everything I put on the table comes from.  What I can't/dont have room for   I would rather buy from a  farmer close to me.

K. Pipped a hole in all 4. All 4 were dry but not shrink wrapped yet. All 4 are alive, but LOTS of veins still definitely not ready to come out yet. I put 'em back and jacked up the humidity some more.

Everything sounding good so far?

K. Pipped a hole in all 4. All 4 were dry but not shrink wrapped yet. All 4 are alive, but LOTS of veins still definitely not ready to come out yet. I put 'em back and jacked up the humidity some more.

Everything sounding good so far?

maybe they liked baked or fryed better who are they I will find out a recipe for them LOLhave to ask them about rabbit to it is easter

 

Dont get me wrong, we baby everything around here even what we're going to butcher right up to the moment we kill them.  And I love the fact that some of the folks on here can keep just pets.  I'm trying to get away from store bought food. Hubby is allergic to soooo much that I would rather know where everything I put on the table comes from.  What I can't/dont have room for   I would rather buy from a  farmer close to me.

Sounds good to me. An assisted hatch should take 24-36 hours. Go slllllloooooow.

 I told hubby we should go rabbit hunting for Easter.

Do you guys do your own? I'd like to raise my own too. Since I'm not in the country I don't have room to do big batches though, and I don't have a plucker and hate doing it myself. I've been trying to find somewhere around here I could take them to and have them processed. Unless I find good homes I'd rather eat my excess roos/drakes then let someone else, or them not go to a so good home.

Sounds good to me. An assisted hatch should take 24-36 hours. Go slllllloooooow.

 I told hubby we should go rabbit hunting for Easter.

I have been trying to talk hubby into eating his rabbit. Stupid thing went psycho one day and tried to attack like a rabid pitbull. Hubby says he's been sweet again ever since, and it was before we separated the two, but I still don't trust the little f***er. Don't want to sell/give him to some poor unsuspecting person, and no one wants a rabbit with a history of psychotic episodes.