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    Wanted: 1-2 female ducks near Portland, Oregon

    I have call ducklings for sale and have a friend returning to Washington (Longview area) in a couple weeks and I'm sure she could transport. I would require prepay so she's not worried about being stuck with the babies. See my ad... Call Ducklings for sale... Keep in mind they won't be laying...
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    Snowy Call Duck drakes *pickup only* Oregon

    Any pics? I will be coming through in a few weeks and am trying to balance out my flock and get some different genetics to start a breeding program in the next year since we had such good hatch rate with our accidental batches.
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    Call Ducklings- hatched 5/15 and 4/25

    Left: Hen, Center: Drake, Right: Hen's brother, Background: another drake- unrelated to anyone. Hen's brother- dark apricot silver (aka cinnamon)- $15 Hen- apricot silver (NOT FOR SALE) Drake- father of all 19! (NOT FOR SALE) PICS OF BABIES TO COME!!! Here is a pic of a Blue Bibbed.
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    Call Ducklings- hatched 5/15 and 4/25

    Fellow Oregonians and/or Idahonians (and even possibly Washingtonians). I have NINETEEN call duck babies!!!! 11 hatched by incubation and imprinted with people on 4/25-27th, and 8 more hatched by hen on 5/15 and just pulled today (so a bit on the squirrely side but more interesting colors and...
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    Eleven Calls Hatched!!!!

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    Eleven Calls Hatched!!!!

    When the three newbies are out of the nursery I'll post pics of all of them. I'm sure I could put some ducky spam up here until then though...
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    Eleven Calls Hatched!!!!

    I haven't had a lot of following on my other thread: Call Duck Hen failure to commit so I thought I'd just do a follow up post to share the results of the incubation attempt. After a few early deaths, a couple of infertiles, and one accidental egg cracking (incubator lid fell in), we've ran the...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    :jumpy:jumpy:jumpyALL ELEVEN HATCHED!!!!!!:jumpy:jumpy:jumpy All are doing well!!!! We've handled all of them extensively once they come out of the 'nursery' incubator and are dry and fluffy. I laid down on floor with 7 of them earlier and after they bolted all over the pace like...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    Oh, and to all those who say NEVER help a bird hatch... that's just poppycock, lol. We've had one so far who's egg was extra pointy and it couldn't rotate to 'zip' the egg- just kept stuffing it's beak through the same hole for two days. I ended up watching it stuck for those two days and was...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    Boy you sure we're right! Nothing, nothing, a little something this afternoon then vwalla! This happened...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    We have progress!!! Two peepers have pipped externally and most of the rest have internally pipped as best I can tell (steamed up the bathroom to 75% humidity and had the heat cranked up so I could do a quick check- remind me never to move to Florida:cool:). The two that are peeping at me are...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    I finally broke down and damp wiped. Made sure and sanitized my hands in between eggs and used a different part of the cloth each egg to prevent spreading anything should one or more have bacterial blooms on them. It worked like a charm!!! Now the moment of truth is upon us... eggs are...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    The lowest I could even hope to get here on the coast is probably 30% and I wouldn't try for lower. As seen in my update, I did wipe some of the bloom off the eggs and now we're cookin' like crisco lol! All of a sudden the eggs are actually starting to lose some mass and gain some air cell...
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    Call Duck Hen failure to commit

    UPDATE: Call Hen is sitting on her new clutch of eggs going on 4 days now! She's pretty committed this go around. As for the eggs I'm incubating, still no sign of pipping- internal or external. The two eggs are estimated to be at 25-26 days (could be wrong, but the incubator says 22 (4/21/18)...
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