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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    I'm going to set some Dominique eggs tomorrow. Been warming up the incubator and fidgeting with it to get everything ready. Who else is in? ;)
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    Dark Brahmas

    These little guys are supposed to be both boys, but I think I may have a pair. What do you guys think? They're about four weeks old now.
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    How Active are Ducklings Supposed to Be

    My two problem-child muscovy ducklings are not very active. They get to the water and to the food and they can move closer to or further away from the heat, but they don't run all over the brooder like baby chicks. Is this normal, or do my babies have problems with their legs? I've never seen...
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    Two Hatched

    Oh my goodness. I have two adorable cute little muscovy ducklings now! I am kinda sad that's all that made it, but I'll take what I can get at this point. I had a breeding quad of muscovies, and the drake and one hen got eaten. Of COURSE that was the hen that was broody on eggs. I lucked out...
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    Duckling Brooding Procedure

    Is there a sticky on brooding ducklings that I'm having trouble finding? I know they need unmedicated crumbles. I'm not sure if the temp is the same? Start at 95 and down by 5 degrees each week? How long do they stay in the incubator until they come out. I have one duckling out now and one egg...
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    Pipped Wrong End

    Three of my duck eggs have externally pipped now, but one pipped the wrong end. It punctured a small blood vessel it looks like because there is blood on the membrane. I'm not sure it's going to have room to turn around in the shell, but is there anything I can do? The incubator is at 99 and 80%...
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    Nothing Happening in My 'Bator

    I have four viable Muscovy duckling eggs in my 'bator. 36 hours ago I candled them and they'd pipped internally. I increased the humidity to 70- 80% relative humidity by my hygrometer and left the temp at 99.5. All day yesterday they were peeping and rolling back and forth and I heard tapping...
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    Broody Hen

    A friend of mine (who isn't on BYC for some strange reason) just had a hen hatch out some eggs. The mama is one of these hens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyjennery/5165862485/ Anybody know what kind she is? We're trying to figure out because she got five live chicks, two hatched and...
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    Missed Lockdown, Hatching Humidity for Muscovy Ducks?

    Okay, I had a mama muscovy duck abandon her nest (long story, she had a good reason, poor thing). Anyway. I dithered around and couldn't decide if I wanted to try to save the eggs or not, or if I thought they'd have a chance. Ended up getting an LG incubator and popped them in there. The clutch...
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    Humidity for Ducklings?

    OMG! I had a broody duck abandon her nest and I thought all her eggs would die. I bought a 'bator and shoved them in anyway. They've pipped internally! I didn't think they were ready yet because I thought these were eggs that got added after the clutch was set. I went to candle and try to decide...
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    Okay, I admit it. I'm crazy. I'm gonna try to hatch refrigerated eggs.

    My rooster and my favorite hen died this month. I had grabbed some of her eggs out of the fridge to stick in a broody nest to tempt one of my hens, but she decided sitting on eggs was for losers. I threw the eggs back in the fridge to use for emergency chick food, and I accidentally grabbed some...
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    Incubate or Give Up?

    I have had THE worst year with my birds. The latest thing is I have a broody muscovy who just gave up today. I had two broodies, one of them was killed by a predator and the other one was trying to cover 29 eggs. I candled, only 7 were viable. One of those has disappeared, I have no idea what...
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    Final Pathology Report Results

    All the adult birds of the flock have tested positive for Mycoplasma gallisepticum. This organism causes chronic respiratory disease in chickens. It is not communicable to humans, but it IS very contagious among all fowl. It is also, apparently, very prevalent in Oklahoma. The state...
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    Just a Funny Picture

    I got this picture a while back when I went out to the coop in the morning. I have NO idea what they were doing. It makes me laugh though. Traci
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    Peeping Eggs - How to Hatch?

    I have a broody Dominique hen who had seven eggs under her. Four of them hatched, but yesterday a redtailed hawk attacked the cage she was in and it freaked her out. She retreated to the far corner of the cage with her chicks and won't go near the other three eggs. I shoved them under a broody...
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    Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (WARNING! GRAPHIC!)

    I need some support guys. I just had the worst day ever. EVER. I've had a lot of bird losses this month, predators, new bird died, chick died. Took my rooster to the vet and found out he's a carrier for chronic respiratory disease and so I had to put him down. Still waiting on the final...
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    Dominique Rooster - Unusual Vocalization

    I heard a strange noise down by the creek last night about seven pm and walked down to find Pac, my one year old Dominique pacing back and forth and making this strange noise. We've had predator problems pretty bad this past week, but no one was missing last night. He didn't stop making the...
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    Duck Found Dead

    Okay, I admit it, I was an idiot. I bought an adult bird and didn't do a proper quarantine. Last week my muscovy drake got eaten by a predator and I was heartsick. I bought a replacement drake, nice big gorgeous guy. I brought him home Sunday and had him in an extra large dog kennel completely...
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    What do you guys think of these prints?

    Hey there. I lost six birds in four days this week. I lost a broody mama dominique on pasture, three of her chicks, a broody muscovy duck on eggs when she slipped off the nest for a bit to bathe and eat, and a 12 lb muscovy drake. Tonight at 6:55 pm. about an hour and a half before sunset I went...
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    Caponizing Mentor

    Is there anyone local-ish to central Oklahoma that would be willing to mentor me in caponization? I have my own tools and cockerels. I would travel to your farm. Thanks. Traci
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