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My miracle baby at day 2 And this morning a couple weeks later

This unexpected duckling surprise will be named * Charlie Duck* . We have a friend going through cancer treatment that has always referrred to himself as Charlie Duck. This will be my baby's name. Charlie duck is my first experience with ducks. Not my first experience with friendship...

Baby duckling is almost a week old and I'm momma!! This baby was supposed to be a fertile egg. HE/she traveled with the rest of the fertile eggs from Oregon to California via post office, and I got it incubated for two days before it hatched. I had candled and it looked suspiciously dark so...

I've been a poultry owner for years and years, always chickens. But for the first time I've branched out to ducklings/ducks and I was surprised at how personable the ducklings are. I have a solitary baby and there is NO doubt that it considers me momma. It has been more fun than all of the...

I have a single hatchling that needs company..Anyone have a newly hatched duckling they would share??

Anyone in the Modesto/Oakdale area have newly hatched ducklings? My surprise yesterday is lonely and I'm looking for a friend. Would need to have been hatched in the last 4-5 days California...

So I set my shipped runner duck eggs on saturday. This morning I'm checking for developing embryos and hear this chirping....I have a hatching egg! Obviously the seller sent a developing egg with my *fresh* eggs. I had noticed it when candling, but thought it was just a dead egg. I decided...

I received runner duck eggs from an ebay seller on Saturday morning. I placed them in my incubator Saturday afternoon and have been watching them for four days. Imagine my surprise today when I started candling and heard a peep! Not only that but I have a PIP! I had put a question mark on...

I bid on eggs last nite and still haven't heard from the seller. What do I do? Do I assume she is no longer selling?

Is there a place in the forum that gives feedback on the different incubators (other than homemade) Its so difficult to find info and would be wonderful to be able to resource one place for feedback/info.

I'm challenged so which is the easier to use? I will be using it as a hatcher initially but may switch if I like it very well. I currently use a dickey cabinet inc, but need more hatching room. Which would you prefer and why? This is a notoriously poorly answered question with no real...

Just finished ordering the last of my eggs.....gaaaahhhh...Drumroll............ 8 doz and maybe a dozn more.......gonna be a reg-u-lar chicken ranch!! LOL I have Coronation sussex, creme brabanters, golden cuckoo marans, olive eggers, fuzzy americaunas,partridge rocks, welsummers, flower...

How many use a separate hatcher for their incubation process and if you do, which type do you use? I would love to get a sep hatcher but just can't decide what to get. I use a dickey cab incubator but with staggered hatches would prefer a seperate machine for hatching.

WTB eggs for hatching. Willing to buy 6-18 eggs. Need for 10 days from now...pretty please?? Going to start a hatch on 23rd/24th July

If you have eggs or chicks, let me know how many and how much you want for them. I have one hen and love, love her. need a roo and more hens or eggs to hatch

I would love to raise my own chickens for meat but can no longer process my own. Does anyone know of a processor in the Modesto area that will do 50-100 birds at a time? I started this by looking in my immediate area...how about the great Sac area?

Okay, so gdaughter and I were feeding all the animals and she discovered a nest of 3 pretty blue eggs. The eggs were in my kidding pens...read goat pens here... and she was so excited to find them. She is three years old so go with me here.....While we were collecting the regular eggs in the...

I just had to toss a dozen eggs that were 10 days into incubation. All had candled clear. When I opened them I found infertile eggs, but most of the eggs had the little meat spots in them...some had several. I know that isn't a dead chick, but is refuse from the oviduct, but would their...

I set about 6 dzn eggs. It was over the course of 3 days and some didn't make it to the second candling, more didn't make it to the day 18 candling. I think we are done with the hatch. I have about 30 chicks in the brooder and 12 or so in the incubator for one last nite. I really don't...