So It took me four batches to get somewhat successful, but my incubator broke and we ended up moving the two duck eggs to a broody hen my supervisor let me borrow. Unfortunately, two eggs had to get left behind. One is dead and the other one is dying. It had to get transferred out of a broken...
I was candling my ducks today to update everyone and ask about their age because I forgot the day (I know my bad) But when I looked at the one I call tiny dancer I saw this.
And it just doesn't look right. ..
The camera was very shaky on my end, I apologize, I have very shaky hands! But I wanted to share the little guys's progress so far. They are doing so well and I am ecstatic with joy :)
So uh, the incubator still has not gotten here, I went to go turn the eggs in their makeshift 'incubator' and I wanted to check on the oldest egg and I found lots of bruises on the shell. Does that mean the little guy is trying to hatch? Last night i did some candling to make sure he was good. I...
I found this one and I really like it, I want something small since we only want to hatch a small amount of ducks we could hand raise rather than grow a farm...
The chick has been incubating on a heating pad and under my shirt. I candled it up to the 18 days and it seemed to be ok. Once there was a blood ring around it but after that I prayed it would survive and the egg continued to develope? I candled it after 22 days again to check on it since the...