Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today - Page 2778

Originally Posted by DUCKGIRL89 

Thanks lain. Shes doing better. Celtic gave me some advice in the goose section. I didn't have a deep enough dish for them to dip their heads into.... Completly forgot about the dish thing... Urg. Lesson leard I guess.

Originally Posted by JulieNKC 

The duckling who needed to absorb her yolk is up walking around the incubator.  Still not fluffed yet, she's been hanging out on a paper towel I've got in there for humidity so she's staying pretty wet. I've got 3 external pips, one that pipped last night and hasn't done anything since. I plan on starting to help them if they haven't progressed any themselves early afternoon, whenever I can get the kids to take a nap. 

Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

Thanks, bakin!!!!!!

 

 

Here is the irony to my buff dewlap & silver apple situation.  While my new duckling/gosling duo get along famously, my buff is still overly imprinted on me.  So, instead of having to carry around one baby with me 24/7, I now have 2 babies that are attached to my hip.

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

i have 1 baby out .

lol i guess she decided she was done with the egg .

she is still attached but very madn about it . peeping up a storm .

yolk is absorbed completely

Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

Dutch, looks like a very healthy baby in the first pic!!

 

QJ, not sure yet, but it is a cutie!  It is a lighter than my other one and looks a lot better after he got a much needed bath.   The seller got part of his SA stock from the same guy you got your eggs from (the ebay guy from Kentucky).  He couldn't remember the name of where he got his other SA eggs, except that they came from Pennsylvania.

 

He had a very nice community set-up in his backyard with silver apple ducks, white midget turkeys (those were so flippin' cool looking, by the way), cotton patch geese and black chickens (no clue about chicken breeds, but he was all about "heritage" breeds.... so I imagine it was a nice breed). 

Originally Posted by DutchChic 

 

 

Yeah, I have a Runner drake that thinks he's a goose, so I'm used to the identity crisis, lol.  She has white Calls due to hatch on the 27th, bout the time mine is due...but I really didn't want another color.  She has 3 or 4 partridge silkies, and I love that color....the silkie eggs I have coming on Friday are B/B/S and buff.  I'm trying to stay with something I already want, or need....and silkies fit the bill.  Decisions, decisions.   Guess I could always sell the white Calls later.  I know....I'll get both!!! 

Originally Posted by DutchChic 

 

 

Of course!  I'm hoping I have pics of my own little baby, too.  =)

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

i have 1 baby unattached =)

2 babies out and attached. and

1 baby who peeps trying to pop out but still had a little yolk to absorb so i keep putting him back in his shell. i put him in a dowl so his movement is very limited.

hes a little eager beaver

Originally Posted by JulieNKC 

First baby starting to fluff up now. There is another that looks like her, one that looks like it'll be a gray, and one that looks black pied/bibbed. One egg has internal but not external pipped so I can't see what's in there, another hasn't internal pipped (I think, but I thought it had internal pipped yesterday?) but still is moving all around so I'm letting it be. 

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

Lol. I have 3 drakes togather and hve only had minor squabbles.
I want to add more hens tho..
=)
Ohhh and guyyys im getting silkie chicks later tonight

Originally Posted by ChristineR 

Here are my new Sebbies from pips & peeps!  I'm looking forward to seeing them after they molt.  Their feathers are looking pretty ratty right now.  These are my first geese, so I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.

 

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

tick tock tick tock.

yes im watching the clock.

30 more minutes until we can officially leave.

in about 10 i am going to go start dinner, grandma is mowing so i figured i would have it done by the time she gets done .

im fixing chicken alfredo. without the alfredo.

and im sure she will have a salad with it.

 

i told her im gettin 6 chicks and got a dirty look

i guess we will see how many find their way into my box hehe .

also need to get gas while in town

before my truck is on E.

 

yes im rambling to myself.

while watching the tail end of my favorite movie.

The Missing with tommy lee jones in it.

 

and listining to the soft peeps coming from the bator. 

 

oh and 2 babies unattached. everyone is out of shell tho. no one scrambling around tho. lots of resting. and peeping

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

 

 

 

6 silkies =D

2 red/buff. and 4 blue/blue splash (the hen was blue splash.

 

and a white call duckling =)

hoping its a hen.

 

going to get peacocks off of him 2 when some hatch

Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

Today is a big day!  We finally turned out our goslings with our adult ganders.  As expected, alpha gander had a few gos at the other gander.  Hubby and I were watching over, prepared to protect the babies, but the babies would come running to us for safety when the fights would break out. Eventually alpha gander sent his message to the other gander and then proceeded to sweetly love on and gently teach babies manners.  We creeped away and left them on a field of fresh grass with water, and after watching them from a distance, believe our integration has been a success!!! 

Originally Posted by JazminesZoo 

 

My pair of Cayugas should start laying soon!   My drake Beetle is doing some fancy smancy moves for the lady !

 

 

 

Originally Posted by Chicken Crazy12 

We are locking down 3 runners and 1 Ancona Hopefully No SW . Already have these babies sold provided they hatch okay.

 

 

Went for a trail ride today, finally got to haul the mares off to an actual horse park instead of riding around the dirt roads. Had a blast.....saw lots of deer, got lost on the trail, and had a great training opportunity with my mare that does not like to stand still when you stop her. One of the best lake views out there is from the back of a horse. I took a few pics, will try to put some up later.  

Originally Posted by JazminesZoo 

A day in the sun!!!

 

 

Originally Posted by JazminesZoo 

 

A couple more of my geese ! Can you tell what breeds they are?

 

 

 

Originally Posted by JazminesZoo 

Sorry for the onslaught of pics!!!

 

Sold 3 more chicks today for $40 !

& tomorrow I have Turkey Babies & some more Anconas going home!

 All $$ goes to vacation in June now!  NO MORE EGGS IN THE BATOR  !!!!!

I just got around to uploading & shrinking them all

 

mama with her babies

 

Originally Posted by Goin Quackrrs 

3 Welshies went to live on the farm today. They are living in a crate in the big brooder with the meat chicks. I would have set them loose but those meat chicks doubled in size since Friday and I was afraid duckies would never get anything to eat. I'm a bit worried about them. Not because they won't be well cared-for, but because I don't get to see them again until tomorrow.

 

Locked down the first batch of eggs from my own ducks. Come on, babies! Make me proud!

 

Set two silkie duck eggs. Maybe I'll get lucky.

Originally Posted by DutchChic 

well....the one egg that was still alive this morning?  It died today...the whole batch was a bust....no baby ducklings

Originally Posted by QuackerJackFarms 

Can I just vent for a sec?  you know that "friend" that I watch her baby for her sometimes?  Well, yesterday she drops her off in the morning and then I find out later she took the day off work.  

 

Can someone explain why I'm watching her kid when she took the day off?  Anyone?  And can someone explain why my husband has to come home from work early to watch said baby, so I can take my daughter to her first softball game? That my husband missed because he was watching her kid?  Really?  

 

I'm done with friends.  Friends are only friends until they take advantage of you.  I'm tired of the whole "oh she stays at home, she can watch my kid."  

 

Hey people on here .... Don't ask me to watch your kids!!  I don't want to !!!  I want to watch mine and sometimes I don't even want that! 

Originally Posted by QuackerJackFarms 

Thread kill!  

 

 

I sold a pair of mallards today.  

 

 

Originally Posted by DutchChic 

 

People do suck!  They drain me.  My animals keep me sane...or at least, somewhat sane...as sane as I can be I guess   That's why I live way out in the country 

 

 

 

See, I feel that way.  I have been a single mom for more years than I have a married one.  I manage my kids, and my schedule...I wouldn't want to manage someone else's.  And I'm responsible for managing it.  No way would I dump on someone.  She was way out of line today, QJ.  I would put an end to it, right then and there.  Friendship is supposed to be golden...she has tarnished your's.

Toss that hussy to the curb!    

Originally Posted by country_girl011 

woke up today and it sounds like theres a party in the bator =)

only 1 baby still attached to his egg.  everyone is scootchin or tryin to .

a couple are scootchin pretty good.

 

i went out on the porch to check everyone and got a dirty look from the silkies bcuz i woke them up. and the baby duck just looked at me funn.

 

and the munchkins watched for treats lol.

 

 

aby and amelia walked the fenceline with me honking, telling me how their night was... and then took of flapping their wings.

 

Originally Posted by DUCKGIRL89 

Picked up my holderread ducklings today!
I got 6 TSQ welsh harlequins, .
3 silkie ducklings (2 grey, and I think 1 dusky)
1 blue runner.
A I got a bonus! A white appleyard duckling. Its so adorable! And huge! Looks like a pekin kinda!

Originally Posted by DutchChic 

 

People do suck!  They drain me.  My animals keep me sane...or at least, somewhat sane...as sane as I can be I guess   That's why I live way out in the country 

 

 

 

See, I feel that way.  I have been a single mom for more years than I have a married one.  I manage my kids, and my schedule...I wouldn't want to manage someone else's.  And I'm responsible for managing it.  No way would I dump on someone.  She was way out of line today, QJ.  I would put an end to it, right then and there.  Friendship is supposed to be golden...she has tarnished your's.

Toss that hussy to the curb!    

Originally Posted by DUCKGIRL89 

Picked up my holderread ducklings today!
I got 6 TSQ welsh harlequins, .
3 silkie ducklings (2 grey, and I think 1 dusky)
1 blue runner.
A I got a bonus! A white appleyard duckling. Its so adorable! And huge! Looks like a pekin kinda!

Originally Posted by JulieNKC 

Here are my cuties. Think my black magpie might be blue looking at the pics, but she is darker in person.  3 more in the incubator who should be ready to come out late this afternoon I think.