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    starting week two on duck eggs/ question on double yoke

    well, i guess it wasn't a double yoke after all. all six eggs hatched and have six ducklings. i guess i don't know how to candle properly!
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    help! my brahmas have become egg eaters!

    i'm going to go to the craft store and get the wooden ones. i'm going to up their calcium too. if that doesn't work i'm going to be having some chicken dinners and start fresh.
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    help! my brahmas have become egg eaters!

    those are some great ideas guys. i got some layer pellets. i guess that scratch isn't enough to supplement even if they are free ranging. thanks,
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    two of the six pekins have tufted heads???

    it's kind of funny because the parents are standard and my last hatch had none.
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    two of the six pekins have tufted heads???

    i tried to post a picture of the hatched ducklings but can't for some reason. i noticed today that two of them have tufted feathers on their heads. how did this happens?
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    another 100% hatch!!!!

    thanks! but seriously. i think i've just got lucky. now if i can just find were my guinea hens have their nest stashed!
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    another 100% hatch!!!!

    this is the second time using eggs from my pekin duck. the homemade igloo bator that i have built must be a finely tuned machine! it is drafty due to the lid being warped so i use a shirt over the top to hold in the heat and humidity. it has a frankenstein fan from walmart that is noisy as...
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    duck eggs just peeped this morning. need quick answer.

    thanks for the info. i think that i drowned my first hatch of guinea eggs that way. the humidity was too low because i kept looking(yeah, i know) and compensated by spraying the heck out of the eggs. of course they soaked it right up. the eggs that never peeped had air cells that were full...
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    duck eggs just peeped this morning. need quick answer.

    yeah it's a 70+ right now. i hope i did catch it in time. last duck hatch was 100% so i did something right last time. i'll just continue to spray through the vents.
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    duck eggs just peeped this morning. need quick answer.

    i came home from work this morning to find that the six pekin eggs are peeped. they are barely cracked and i haven't seen any sign of movement for eight hours. the humidity was only 30% so i immediately sprayed down the eggs with mist and sprayed the inside of the bator and got the humidity up...
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    help! my brahmas have become egg eaters!

    i have noticed cracked eggs when i gather them. today, i didn't let them out of the coop til late afternoon and there was no evidence of eggs in the coop and there was dryed yoke on their faces! i have been letting them freerange every day and supplementing with scratch. maybe they need layer...
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    starting week two on duck eggs/ question on double yoke

    thanks, i kinda thought it couldn't hurt let it continue to do its thing.
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    light brahmas and touloose geese? when should they start to lay?

    the brahmas are about six months old now. the geese are almost a year old now. how long before they start to lay?
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    starting week two on duck eggs/ question on double yoke

    i started with eight eggs. a fox killed my other female last year so i have only one female now. she wasn't quite producing an egg a day so i had to wait almost 12 days to get the 8 that i have. i candled today and had one clear which i removed. i have one that seems like it may be a double...
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    Homemade Incubator Thermostat - Video Link

    thats cool! where did you buy it? i looked on ebay and did a google search and came up with nothing. thanks
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