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Call Ducks Finally Hatched
Yes, it's what I've used on a few loads of chicken eggs. But I've got a feeling that I'm getting ready to learn that I should be using something else! -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
Well.....,this is just gonna be a personal observation from my last few months of getting into "Call Ducks". Nothing can take the place of the momma sitting on her own eggs! We have had three clutches laid by our Gray Call. 21 eggs that she sat on. 31 eggs laid in all. First clutch was 12... -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
My just finished pondside aviary for my ducks! 3 Gray Calls "free pounding" in the foreground, 2 Snowies and 12 4 1/2 week old Grays in the enclosure. Ducks getting to be ducks! -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
One month Gray Call birthday celebration! Still batting 1000 with this batch, 12 for 12! Couple of chick party crashers.... -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
Maybe I didn't screw up as bad as I thought! She laid an egg in the nest box today. So maybe she will lay another full clutch and I will have some success with the 12 in the incubator. Could be a "Two-fer"! -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
I really screwed up my Gray Calls nesting efforts. I built a really nice 24x32 "Duck Aviary that is about 50-50 pond and shoreline. My construction efforts around her nest box spooked her away. She stopped laying in the box after 9 eggs. I found her new nest today with 3 eggs in it under our... -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
Yeah, the enemy is right on the money! But after getting HIM untangled from the fence, he was so docile and willing to let us patch him up. The wildlife rehab guy is considering raising it as a pet because he says he has never had one come through that was so....tame. And he was VERY SOFT. -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
If she repeats her last clutch, she's halfway there! -
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Call Ducks Finally Hatched
The baby fox is in the hands of a wildlife rehab fella, and my Gray Call Hen has started laying her second clutch of eggs! 3 in the nest box so far. I am rebuilding my pondside aviary so that this next hatching should be able to stay in momma ducks capable care! -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
This morning I find myself in a tough position. This youngster got hung up in one of my property perimeter fences. And while I have cussed 'em, shot at them and trapped them, how can you not think "this is the cutest thing ever"! Off to the wildlife rehab..... -
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Call Ducks Finally Hatched
10 days. Still 12 for 12 on the Gray Calls. They love their "pool time" and foraging in the grass! -
Call Ducks Finally Hatched
5 days, still 12 for 12! Introduced them to a shallow tray of water today, they took to it like........well, lets not go there! Then they preened and soaked up some sunlight 'till they were all dry and puffed up!