Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today - Page 2572

Well, here's the report. The weak runner duckling died in the night. The two weak bei's are still hanging on.

Yesterday's Goose (hubby's):

Todays Goose (mine):

Hubby's gosling immediately pooped on the table. Typical.

After my goosie hatched, I did a minimal eggtopsy on what was left. What I found was a bunch of fluidy eggs. All dead. The runner eggs were starting to get ripe and must have died right around lockdown, give or take a day. I didn't go any further than to assess that they were indeed dead before throwing them out.

Cleaning hatcher now so I can lock down another batch tomorrow night. They are scheduled for LD on Saturday, but I think 8 hours give or take won't kill them.

Two little runner ducklings went to their new home today. It's funny, even with having a presale list, getting people to come get the little flufferbutters is hard!

I hope the one girl isn't ticked that I gave her ducks to someone else, but I've been emailing daily since Sunday with no response.

my pretty girl

they were telling jack to get lost.

i think they are 5 ot 6 weeks old now (have to go back and count its one of those)

alsmost fully feathered.

both snowy babies =)

they are all 3 different colors.

just dont know what other than the black 1

i love this little guy!

hes this super light blueish brown coloy with yellow (white) wings

magpie =)

as you can see riley has to oversee everything lol.

i love this little guy!

hes this super light blueish brown color with yellow (white) wings

Duck Pile!!!

Sorry about Flippy, CG. Your Grandma sounds like a nice lady. Really glad about your other healthy ducklings!!

Molasses is a cutie-pie, Quackrrs, and I too vote for Bootstrap or Blackstrap as a name for a li'l future buddy.

QJ - Game of Thrones is a series of books too. There are 5 (but the series hasn't ended yet). They are pretty good. Some top characters, and the whole story is pretty coherent, unlike a lot of series that seem to wander off into the wilderness after a while. So, I recommend the books. Don't get too attached to any characters though - the author has no qualms about killing just about anybody off at the drop of a hat.

I'm in the middle of polishing my car. Easy, you might think. No. I bought four different paint cleaning and conditioning products to use, one after the other (my car is about 22 years old so it needs a bit of make-up now and then). I'm done with two products, and two to go. My arm is about to freakin' drop off. So I am having little break.

Since it's autumn here all the ducks are getting kind of cranky. I think they feel the ancestral urge to migrate, but don't quite know what to do about it. The drakes are getting along very well but the girls are really bitchy and picking fights with other girls not in their 'group'. A lot of sassing going on right now.

my pretty girl

they were telling jack to get lost.

i think they are 5 ot 6 weeks old now (have to go back and count its one of those)

alsmost fully feathered.

both snowy babies =)

they are all 3 different colors.

just dont know what other than the black 1

i love this little guy!

hes this super light blueish brown color with yellow (white) wings

magpie =)

as you can see riley has to oversee everything lol.

so the color count for this hatch.

2 snowys.

2 blue magpie.

1 grey.

1 lighter grey.

1 super light grey (lol dont know what it is)

and 7 blue bibbed

Are your leaves falling yet?

My Mallards & BEI's are taking there own sweet time !