A broody duck can hurt a child really bad. They can be aggressive to protect the eggs.
Don't let a child be near an duck that's sitting on eggs. Becareful with going near it.
You can't tell the sex of quails by pictures, those are just guessing.
What you need to do is wait until they are 6 weeks or older and flip them on their back. Males will have balls showing with sperm and females will not have this if you gentle squeeze them.
But before that males will crow and...
I do 1 male to 5 females.
The ales can be very rough when they mate and the females will wear out pretty fast if you put more males in there. The males can be very aggressive if you put to much males in there and they will fight. Good luck.
They are pretty easy to hatch, 17 days for Japanese...
Hi, great guide!
I wanted to ask something. I have a goose turner. Do I still turn the eggs from end to end 1 x a day or is this not nessecary?
Thanks for responding
Hi, great guide!
I wanted to ask something. I have a goose turner. Do I still turn the eggs from end to end 1 x a day or is this not nessecary?
Thanks for responding
My first geese egg, died while hatching. Toulouse gosling.
The next 3 Toulouse eggs, hatch with help but stayed alive.Local pickup
Bought 12 eggs from eBay and 3hatch with help but are still alive. The rest of the eggs had bad smell or did not developed . Had bought after that 2 extra Pomeranian...
Depends on what breed it is and if people in your area would buy geese eggs.
Are those fertile eggs or just for eating.
Some people buy it for arts and craft as well.
You can ask a dollar per egg but if it is a Sebastopol geese, you can get for a fertile egg $10 to $20 each, if you ave good...
They have a really bad smell, odor . My experience hen rolls them out f the nest. It stinks bad and I even have seen her eating one. Maybe protecting the rest of her nest.
If you hatch different birds at the same time like I do. Once in a while you get a nice surprise.
I supposed to get the chicken eggs out the in incubator for their lockdown. But when I came close to th incubator I heard a lot of peep.
I thought , that's early but my surprise it was no chick that...