Hi everyone,
I have recently had Pekin and Blue Swedish mixed ducks hatch. They hatched about a week and a half ago, and i still have some older ones (about 3 weeks) from an incubation. I am looking for good homes and i am not charging anything for them. If you are interested please respond. I...
The male is a pekin duck and the female is a blue swedish duck, most of the babies seem to take on the females traits. 6 of the babies look exactly as she did when she was a baby and the others are yellow and very light gray (they seem to take on more of the males traits). I had to take them...
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I live on Long Island, NY and I began to incubate eggs that my duck was laying and 6 of my 8 eggs hatched. After a week and a half I gave away all 6 ducks to their new homes that I had found. However now my duck has hatched her own babies, out of the 12 eggs she was laying on 10...
So i have successfully hatched an egg today and its really exciting. It is the first egg i have ever hatched!- I no i am supposed to leave the duckling in the incubator till it has completely dried, but my question is: should i put food/water inside the incubator for it? And is it ok to leave...
Thank you. Also, since this morning two more of the eggs have broken through the shell a little. But one of them has blood around the hole. Is this really bad? Its still chirping
My duck is currently hatching. It has been for about an hour or so. The beak is sticking out and it looks like it's getting restless, so i'd like to help it out by cracking the shell a bit. Is this ok? If not, how long should I wait?
I have been trying to hatch eggs from my ducks. I take in a new egg everyday from my duck, and mark each one so I will no exactly when its supposed to hatch. Everything goes fine, when i due the candling of the eggs I see veins and plenty of movement within the eggs. I have also been stopping...
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I have been incubating eggs that my Blue Swedish Duck has been laying. She has been mating with my Pekin Duck but i was told that the mix in breeds is ok. The first hatch date (28 days) was for Sunday however none of the eggs have hatched. However I candled about three of the eggs, about...
Hi,
I have been incubating eggs that my Blue Swedish Duck has been laying. She has been mating with my Pekin Duck but i was told that the mix in breeds is ok. The first hatch date (28 days) was for Sunday however none of the eggs have hatched. However I candled about three of the eggs, about...