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    Eggs pipping early

    these things happen - it must have been the weakling of the hatch
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    Duckling Thread!

    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
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    Nest Box padding?

    these are good as is artificial grass - I wager those at the dollar shop will be almost identical
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    Duckling Thread!

    does anybody have any tips on sexing campbells
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    Duckling Thread!

    ah shame - had their first swim vid clip topost
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    Duckling Thread!

    how do I post a short vid clip ?
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    Duckling Thread!

    they are all campbells - 4 white (yellow ones) 1 Dark 1 khaki saly one the other khaki didnt make it but the rest seem strong & healthy
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    Duckling Thread!

    here are my little beauties
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    Eggs pipping early

    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
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    Show Off Your Ducklings!

    very professional photo
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    Eggs pipping early

    all pipped eggs are hatched now - 7 out of 9 4 yellow (white campbells) 2 dark 1 khaki 2 that never pipped were fully formed
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    Duck was attacked

    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...
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    Eggs pipping early

    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...
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    Do pullets' voices change or is this a sign of a problem?

    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
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    Eggs pipping early

    bought as duck eggs - campbells but cant tell for sure until they hatch but they are large eggs duck size
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    Eggs pipping early

    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...
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    Missing eggs

    or you could have rats or crows taking them - they can stop laying if spooked or bothered by these
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    Incubating Duck Eggs With RCOM20 - not turning fully !

    just candled the eggs and out of 18 only 9 are developing so I will put that down to fertility of eggs
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    Incubating Duck Eggs With RCOM20 - not turning fully !

    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.
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    Incubating Duck Eggs With RCOM20 - not turning fully !

    I only noticed when I marked the eggs on each side and saw that my marks were not coming all the way round
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