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    Duck Casserole

    Please excuse my twisted sense of homour. Glad you all were brave enough to look.
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    Brown Leghorn and Gold Laced Wyandotte - 7 weeks old - girls please?

    Woohoo! You've all made my day! I compromised with hubby when we agreed that I would hatch my own chooks that we would turn the cockerals into roast dinners (as we are not allowed to keep roosters in our town) and I was so worried that the GLW was going to be a boy because it is just such a...
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    Duck Casserole

    I just wanted to share my duck babies first splash .... casserole dish seemed the best available option, just the right size for a duck at a time and not too shallow/not too deep. I don't know who enjoyed it more - me watching them play or them doing the playing!
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    Brown Leghorn and Gold Laced Wyandotte - 7 weeks old - girls please?

    I'm pretty sure from looking through others posts that the leghorn is a girl and I will be thrilled if she is as she is my only leghorn that hatched. The wyandotte though I am really not sure about at all.
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    Frizzle?

    Ok, so here are some pictures ... it also seems that some of her tail feathers are coming through upside down too (a bit hard to tell in the picture and they are still quite short). The wing feathers that are curled are like that all the way down to the shaft, so it is not ordinary feathers that...
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    So, anyone hatch your own duck eggs?

    Oh, I just read your little signature thingy that goes with your posts and see that he is a buff x runner. I don't know what a buff looks like - off to google one ...
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    So, anyone hatch your own duck eggs?

    It is just hit and miss as far as gender goes, there is nothing you can do to alter that, sex is determined at time of fertilisation just like in human babies. I actually bought my incubator off ebay, imported it from a seller in the USA as it was much cheaper for me to import one than to buy...
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    So, anyone hatch your own duck eggs?

    My first time posting a picture, hope it works. My 4 baby runners.
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    So, anyone hatch your own duck eggs?

    I just hatched 4 Indian Runners 5 weeks ago! - my first time hatching duck eggs and only my second time hatching any eggs at all, so I was very pleasantly suprised when I got a 100% hatch rate. I have a new Hovabator which has an automatic turner and a fan in it to keep even temperature, it's...
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    Just saying hello

    Hi from down under! I'm new here too and loving BYC. Very helpful.
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    Frizzle?

    Seriously? What's a sizzle?? I borrowed a friend's camera and took some pics but now waiting for her to find usb cable so that I can get them onto my computer. Will post them when I get that sorted (I should have enough posts to do that by then). Noticed today that she has a few curled over...
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    Crippled chick

    Anyone? It's wing seems to have improved today but no change with the legs.
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    Frizzle?

    Ok, thank you. It's only about 5 feathers on each wing so I guess just some random confused feathers. Will be interesting to see if they stay like that.
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    Frizzle?

    No, can't at the moment sorry.
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    Frizzle?

    May be a silly question but ... Having a cuddle today with my Gold Laced Wyandotte 'chick', now about 7 weeks old and mostly got her (well, hopefully her) big-bird feathers, and I noticed that some of her wing feathers are kind of curly, they curl so that the underside of the feather faces up...
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