this is them a few weeks ago - I know about the different voices and head colour / curly tail feather but they are all too young at the moment and still peeping. wondered if any way to tell while still ducklings
sorry people been very busy at work here are the little duckies unfortunately one of the kharkis died - bless it but other are thriving and are greedy noisy little beggars
I was going to suggest violet spray as its called in uk but It looks like you have everything covered - spoil her for a week she will be fine "its only a flesh wound"
Don't be too harsh with your dogs - they are only doing whats natural but when things start flapping and running, animal...
Defo ducks - 1 pipped egg has a little beak showing now -
I checked my temp by a digital medical thermometer - it showed incubator was only 0.2'C different
I have managed to increase humidity to 80% by recalibrating the RCOMs humidity at 70% down to 60% and setting it again to 70% (which is...
they do carry on cheeping like a chick for quite a while - i wouldn't be concerned, just keep an eye on her and make sure shes acting normally and eating ok
I got home from my night shift to find 3 of my 9 viable eggs have started pipping 5 days early
I quickly stopped the turning program, lined the floor with paper towels and bumped the humidity to max, which is only 70% on my RCOM 20 max.
To help increase the humidity, I am spraying the paper...
would this effect the hatch rate if it was left to do it own thing without me/ us turning the eggs as well?
I havent had more than 50% hatch in the 3 times I have used it - so maybe this is the reason why
Perhaps I need to go for smaller eggs so they will rotate more.