I have ducks hatching now, geese next weekend fingers crossed. Then I'm filling the incubator with banty's and barnyard mix. I'm hooked on the incubator. :)
Oh no! I'm so sorry it didn't go well. :( All of our banty's that were fertile hatched (24 out of 30) and 15 out of 24 Americanas. Now I have 3 ducks hatched last night and today and 20 more still in there.
I got some mystery eggs from a lady and now I get to try and figure out what they are...lol. She has a bunch of different breeds all housed together so could be mixes...but of what?
I set a whole pile of eggs on the 28th. I bought some Americana eggs and she threw in some banty, duck and geese eggs too. The chickens go on lockdown this Wed so I should have time to up the humidity for the duck and geese.
We moved our hens and their chicks this morning and the one broody still sitting on some eggs. It went relatively smoothly for getting 5 hens and 12 plus chicks out of the cramped area they chose to brood in and into a pen in the house.
The first to arrive.
In transit
Everyone is...
Getting some neat variations in the black/yellow markings..including an all black head with yellow spot on top...almost the negative image of the first second pic.
Some of my hens are black stars so would these be sex links?