Okay so starters this little guy had some issues hatching. I don't know what happened exactly but when it pipped externally there was blood on the membrane. A good bit of it.
If I had to guess I think it tried to hatch too early. As when it did hatch it had not fully absorbed the yolk and what...
So I noticed on Friday at about 8 or 9 in the morning that one of my eggs had just barely begun to Pip. It is now 10pm on Sunday. I can hear the baby actually peeping in the egg but it has yet to zip. Should I be concerned? It's been at least 61 hours since I firat noticed it pipping.
Also...
So I've been letting my broody mama sit on her eggs. I was going to let her hatch them but so far at least 2 to 4 of the eggs that were close to hatching were busted open. I had since discovered that my magpies were going in there and eating the eggs via a camera and catching one with yoke on...
So for a long while I thought these two were pekins, but now I'm not so sure. They look very different from Sweetpea (who I have no doubt is a Pekin). I need help identifying them. I've tried looking it up but nothing is helpful.
The first one is Eoywn, and the second is Galadriel.
I think my drake may have eaten one of Sweetpea's eggs. Either him or one of my four five week old ducks. There is no trace of the egg, not in the straw and no egg shells.
They're in a big pen so no predators did it.
She had two eggs this morning and only one when I got home from work...
So my Pekin duck Sweetpea just layed her very first egg this morning. She is about 7 months old. I keep all my ducks in a big pen. I hadn't noticed her looking for a place to next until about a week ago. Yesterday I noticed she spent a lot of time in the corner if the pen and assumed she wanted...