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Need coop help....
I've had chickens and ducks for many years. However this is the first year I have locked all of them up for the winter...had a rough winter from hawks. They can still go out but their run is much smaller than they are use to because I only enclosed half. That's not the problem. It's inside the...- amynbrent
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- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance
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Turkey help needed asap!!!
It somewhat looks like the pic in your link...but not quite as bad. I just checked her and it seems to be going up on its own and she seems perfectly fine. Thanks for the link. -
Turkey help needed asap!!!
Well we put her in warm water for about 30 mins. That relaxed her and we were able to get the egg out....most disgusting thing I've ever had to do...but that comes with owning animals! She seems fine but the canal or membrane/wall, whatever it's called is still hanging. It's not as low as it... -
Turkey help needed asap!!!
I just took in a female turkey who is about 2 years old. She has been laying eggs but not since I've had her...I got her on Saturday. Last night she started to lay. I have chickens and am not familiar with how turkeys do it or how long it takes. You can see the egg hanging and it's surrounded... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
I did candle them and since ducks are different than chickens I didnt know really what I was looking for...other than movement. All of my attempts at duck eggs have been the same. They develop on one side of the egg. Intead of settling and filling in the larger part of the chicken egg leaving an... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
Well today is day 33...so far 3 have hatched and are healthy, 3 more are almost there. I did have to assist because they are super dry, even though the humidity is at 80%! The membrane is so dry and stuck to them. Looking thru the hole their bill sticks out you could tell their fluff was dry and... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
Ok, another update. I left my bright flashlight on by mistake on top of the incubator this morning when I checked on them. I just went back up there and they are hatching!! I wonder if it was to dark and they thought it was sleep time and the bright light helped them realize to wake up and come... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
Ok, it's been 48 hours for some of my eggs. No more progress. They seem much quieter and some dont seem to make any noise. Humidity still good. Leave them or help them? I dont want to help them but nothing I have read says 48 hours and if they die it will hurt knowing I could have helped them... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
It has been a full 24 hours since the first two pipped. One of the two havent made any progress...this one has a tear in the membrane and if I shine a flashlight on it just right I see little yellow feathers shift away from the hole but the egg itself isnt moving anymore. The other one is... -
Just a Story to Share-Mama dead from Stress
I just had a hen hatch one baby but sat on 8 eggs. She has always hatched babies...her own plus every other hen in my flock. One hatched overnight so in the morning I came out to see her and her little one. She was caring for the one while sitting on 7 more. #2 hatched and she kicked it out form...- amynbrent
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
Thanks so much. I havent opened the lid. I'm just so nervous because of my last two attempts. I let them be and on day 32 nothing happened after the pip and partial zip, one bad egg sort of exploded so I had to get the other ones out because I could still hear them chirping very weak. They were... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
Five are a pip with a raised shell, a couple have like two pips...I guess where it will turn into a zip. One the shell is off and the membrane exposed with a rip in the membrane where it's bill was sticking out yesterday. This was the second to pip and that was about 10 a.m. yesterday. The... -
3rd attempt at hatching ducks.....need more help....
This is my third and final attempt at hatching Pekin's. Each time I got a couple but I had to help them out. Six pipped between early morning yesterday through the evening. Some just a pip and some made a little more progress. I was determined to let them hatch out by themselves this time (if I... -
Need duck hatching help....quick!!!
Thanks....I never try to help chicks or ducks but the ones that were pipped with a large hole were really chirping and sounded frantic one did die that is why I decided to help. when I looked closely at them they were very dry so I just peeled back around the hole and they started to push out. I... -
Need duck hatching help....quick!!!
This is not my first time hatching incubated ducks but it's my first time with a problem. They are on day 30 today, they pipped early morning yesterday and last night some time. They made no progress. I helped by peeling the shell back just a little so they could push their bill out and...