I've got four beautiful cayuga ducklings that will be 2 weeks Thursday (6/9) and they are all eating and drinking and doing just perfect. However, I noticed one of the ducklings is way bigger than the other three. I hatched them myself so I know for a fact they all hatched the same day. Anyways...
Well everything went great. The one that pipped on the wrong end just popped out. Unfortunately, we did loose one last night. It was a hatching problem, but I couldn't really find out what exactly happened. On a happier note I have four little ones doing perfect.
Another just hatched! I hadn't even noticed he had zipped until a couple minutes before his hatch. He's full of energy and I'm keeping him in the 'bator until the morning
Baby's are crazy, I wouldn't be surprised if this little guy keeps me awake all night. Maybe it'll get better when the others are out and ready to join him but for now he wants to spend every minute with me, which was great at first I mean who doesn't love ducky love. After a few hours not so...
A few hours later and this little one is just running around and having a great time. All fluffed out and seems very healthy. I don't think there is any problem anymore, now to wait for the rest. Also the egg I thought might have quit has just recently piped looks like there's a chance of all...
Well good news and possible bad news. We had our first baby pop out this morning and he/she is absolutely covered in egg junk. I've read you can fi this with some warm water, but he/she also hasn't closed up the area where it absorbs the yolk sack. Let me be clear, the yolk sack has been...
I've got 5 cayuga eggs in the incubator and today is day 25. Anyways, I did a final candling before going into lockdown and noticed two have internally pipped already. They aren't chirping yet and they aren't rocking. Now that they have internally pipped how long will it take for them to start...
So I have been incubating five duck eggs for the past 18 going on 19 days and I was doing a quick candling to check on air sac development and I noticed in one of them there was a clearer spot, (not completely clear but I can see the larger veins a little bit) now some of my other eggs also have...
I have five duck eggs in the incubator and I've been turning every day three times a day. Anyways, I'm leaving town for a little less than a week on day 19 and was wondering if I'll need someone to turn the eggs for me, or if they are developed enough not to be turned at this point?
I've been incubating 6 cayuga duck eggs for the past five days everything has been going perfect with humidity temperature and egg turning (which I'm doing by hand), and decided that today (day 5) I would candle them just to check up on development and such. all of them had veins and you could...