Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do. Recent content by Omikse
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New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
So for using an old post but I wanted to do an update since it has been a while and to ask a question at the same time. First off out of the 8 ducks that hatched (which we only have 3 now), we think only 1 was a girl. Unfortunately we gave away that one girl to someone who has been raising... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
What would the temperature be for a 1 week old ducking? I managed to find a setting of between 90 and 95 with my shower head. I am thinking of trying to rig up a way to make the water drain out slowly so the water does not cool down plus give the ducklings a sense of rain if I put it on its... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
So the black will disappear? I find that disappointing. I would have like it to stay. I like the odd ballness of it. -
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New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
trying to post pics but can upload some -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
Thank you for the clear up. It was a little confusing as to what you meant. So here we are a week later and I forgot to tell you all the out of the 23 eggs we had 10 hatched but only 8 survived. We have them separated into to 2 different brooders and they are doing fine. I can not believe how... -
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New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
The Styrofoam would be used as insulation and would be between plastic and cardboard as make shift walls secured by small wood beams so they could not peck at it on my porch so we can put the duck outside when they get too big for the brooder. I don't have the money to build a pen in the yard... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
Well to give you all an update as to what's going on. We are up to 6 Hatched at the moment but we should have had more. Unfortunately we have lost a couple after hatching and some just before hatching. I feel sad because one day the were tapping in the egg and the next no more. I am hesitant to... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
They are inside the incubator and the lid is on. I just took it off so I could take a picture. Would that make a difference. -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
Thanks for the advise Ravynscroft . You were right on. So far everything id going ok. I tried to upload a pic of 2 that were hatched before I got home from work but it won't upload -
Discoloration of egg at piping site.
Sorry to start a new thread on this but I need answers quick. I have one egg that is piping but the is some discoloration at the cracking spot. I am trying to include a photo so you can see. Also I have another egg where a piece of the shell has fallen off but the membrane is still intact. Is... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
So now I need quick advise before I intervene. After going to bed last night I woke up to use the restroom in the middle of the night. During this time I went in to check on the progress of the hatching and found that a piece of the shell had fallen off but the membrane has yet to be broken. I... -
New to raising Peking Ducks and need advise.
So just a little back story. II live in the Pacific Northwest. My neighbors had a couple of Peking Ducks that used to come over to our house all the time because of the bird seed my wife puts out for the birds. One day she found an egg so we decided to try and hatch it. So we bought a not so...