Little cookie is doing well! Had her first BM, Still has the foot issue but if I hold her and gently massage her little webbers I can see a slight noticable difference when I put her down to walk (although it doesn't last) I will keep up with it daily. Otherwise I am researching those booties...
Wow. You guys and gals are the best! Thank you! Im so happy I joined this forum. Everytime I went researching online prior to my incubation adventure, I would end up on this forum. I purchased plenty of books, but nothing is more informative than life experience. Thank you for all being so...
Indian runner/pekin mix. The other two have both externally pipped. I worry that she is playing soccer with her siblings and keeps knocking one over so their external pipp is under them.
Only two left. One other with an external pipp and a third just wiggling only. Cookie hatching helped start the other two (my daughter named them Caramel and Cupcake, haha!) But Cookie is still falling ove r often because her webbed feet bend in.
Little Cookie had no further progress by this morning and i was noticing the membrane get drier and drier. So I was bad (again) and decided to help out at around 1pm. I was right! Poor thing was getting shrink wrapped in the drying membrane. I opened a good portion of the shell and drying...
Hello everyone!
So this is my first time incubating and hatching duck eggs. Since I figured I was going to get everything wrong at first, I bought 4 assorted duck eggs off ebay and had them mailed. Pekin/runner mix. My incubator is an inexpensive brand you can buy off amazon. It maintained...