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  1. BantamMama13

    Call duck egg taking over a month to hatch?? Please help!!

    No he didn't make it, but I have four little ducklings that have hatched within the last day! I'm sad for the one egg, but on the other hand, losing one out of five is a good outcome.
  2. BantamMama13

    Call duck egg taking over a month to hatch?? Please help!!

    I have a call duck egg that my duck laid, I put it into my incubator on March 26, and today, April 29 it still has not hatched yet. I see it wiggling around in the incubator, and I do know that my temps have been a little low, around 99 for the whole incubation period. My question is do I...
  3. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    She's sitting on about 12 duck eggs and 7-8 chicken eggs. When the chicks start hatching, I plan to take the duck eggs and put into incubator for remainder of time. From there they will go into the brooder. They can be hard to hatch from what I've heard but this is my first time hatching...
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    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Here is my chocolate call pair. In the third picture you can see the drake and the little cream colored one in front of the chocolates. Can you make out what breed she might be? And my proud rooster standing guard over his ladies!
  5. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    I have adults. I have a pair of chocolate calls and one that's a grey mallard drake call duck. Plus I have one that I am unsure of what she is but she's beautiful and a cream color. She's also slightly smaller than my chocolate calls. Hopefully your calls will come home. I actually had a...
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    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    I ended up hatching four right now. I have my adult female chocolate sitting on a nest of both chicken and duck eggs. They all like to lay their eggs in the same nests, odd behavior lol.
  7. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    He's a chocolate call. I live in Maine and we have cold weather here and it's really dry in my house. Could that be the reason why I need my humidity higher?
  8. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Yes, I named him Lucky because he sure is one lucky ducky!
  9. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    This is Lucky, the one I assisted in his hatch.
  10. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    I am hatching call ducks, who are notoriously bad for breaking their shells. He had his hole open but was struggling until I figured out that he was so stuck in there with the humidity at 65% that I raised it to 75% and the other three ducklings hatched fine at that point.
  11. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    I hatched a chick this morning, I thought all my chicks were done hatching and that the ducks were taking an extra day and I had the last chick hatch this morning. My humidity has been around 75% and I have had good batches with my hatch. Could my humidity control be out of whack? And what...
  12. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    You should wait until they all have hatched if possible. Chicks and ducklings don't need food or water for 24-48 hours after hatching because they feed off the yolk. You risk causing shrink wrapping to occur by opening the incubator and losing moisture during the hatch. When this happens your...
  13. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Yes the chicks should be fine with that humidity. I just had a chick hatch this morning and my humidity is around 80%.
  14. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Yes, you want to raise the humidity to at least 65%, if incubating ducks then you may want it higher, more so around 75-80%.
  15. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Yes, when you put the eggs in the incubator that is when they begin to develop. If you are incubating different eggs that require different incubation times, it is best to put the ones in that take the longest, and then add the others so that the hatch day for all the eggs will be the same...
  16. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    You can start them at the same time. The only difference is that you will also need to stop turning your duck eggs on day 18. I don't know if that can cause any trouble for the duckling or not if you don't turn until day 24. You don't want to risk opening your incubator while your chicks are...
  17. BantamMama13

    Hatching chicks and ducklings together?

    Hi! I am no expert at this but I just hatched a batch of chicks and ducklings. The duck eggs take about 28 days to hatch while a chick only takes 21 days. I started my duck eggs a week before I added my chicken eggs because their lockdown period needs to begin at the same time to prevent...
  18. BantamMama13

    Help with hatching ducklings!

    The first hatchling is doing great! He's up and moving around. Here's a cute picture of him.
  19. BantamMama13

    Help with hatching ducklings!

    I'm going to see what happens. Today is day 27, and I have call ducks which i believe can hatch as early as 26 days. The one that hatched this morning had externally pipped the night before last, on day 25.
  20. BantamMama13

    Help with hatching ducklings!

    The yellow is part of the membrane, it's folded back and you see the underside of the eggshell. When I noticed the other egg had pipped internally I put it back in incubator and I added water to basins to top them off and soaked a paper towel and put it in there hoping to raise the humidity. I...
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