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We have been breeding Muscovy for 3 years now and have had a pretty successful side business of selling them as meat and pets (ducklings). We keep 3 males and 9 hens as our breeding stock and sell off all the others or process for meat. We had a really long and hard winter so the hens started...

Yay! Wow, we were only separated by 1 number from each other's guesses for 1st and 2nd!

yes, I live in NH and they get a federal grant each year to do it, so it's free, just your time and labor of catching all the chickens (and guineas in our case). They do not do ducks. If you want additional testing here, it is around $1.50 per bird for other diseases. The NPIP just tests for the...

do we post how many we had hatch here? If so, we had 26 hatch out of the 47 we set.

We charge $4 each for mixes and $8 each for our Speckled Sussex chicks. We are NPIP certified. We actually just sold all of our HAL chicks except the 5 we are keeping!

Even though today is hatch day, ourd started early with the first one hatching on the night of day 19. We now have 11 in the brooder, about 8 in the incubator (they are still hatching so every time I leave the room another seems to hatch) and more eggs due to hatch! Here's some of the brooder...

one of my quitters (between Day 14 and 18) looked like an albino when I opened up the egg. Tiny, but perfectly formed, all white Feathered body. Noneof the parents are white.

Just got home from work and we have 10 fluffy butts hatched out so far! I usually leave them in the incubator for awhile to lessen the heat and humidity loss, but with all the eggs still left to hatch, I'm wondering if I should make some space and put a few in the brooder earlier than I usually do?

Yay! Our first one just hatched! And it's out of one of the "mystery" eggs.a few of the eggs we decided to put in looked like guinea eggs, but didn't seem as pointy as they were last year, but we're definitely still different looking than the chicken eggs. We are curious if they were...

Numerous eggs are pipped and peeping is heard loud and clear on day 19!

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Candled today, removed 4 (out of 47). 1 was not developed at all, the other 3 had started but developed a blood ring. All the rest (43) that I could see through were coming aling very nicely! I have several OE and Ameraucanas I can't see through, so they just stay in until the enD, unless it's...

Ok, our total for setting is 47 chicken eggs*! There are some Speckled Sussex in there, and then all the rest will be mix with a RIR Roo and SS Roo over Ameraucana, OE, Golden Comet, BUff Orpington, BLack Australorp, and possibly Black Sex Links. *There are also some eggs that look suspiciously...

We have two Muscovy's die in the last two days. The first one was clear hypothermia (my first experience with it, but it was pretty obvious), it occurred yesterday morning, which was right after the -10 to -20 degree night with winds blowing at blizzard strength. The first one was still alive...

I think we might try this! We will do a barnyard mix. We have a RIR rooster and Speckled Sussex Rooster over Speckled Sussex, Australorp, Buff Orpington, Ameraucana, Golden Comet, & Black Sex Link.