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Ok question. I have 2 flocks that free range together all day and seperate coops at night. One hen house, one duck house. Just had 4 broodies, 7 ducklings and one chick. The chick is fiercely protected by mom who is a middle in the pecking order. At 4 weeks, baby scampers off on her own often...

A short while back FIVE of my 16 mature birds went broody. 2 ducks, 2 standard chickens and 1 bantam. My runner, my runner kc cross, an RIR, my RIR brahma cross and my booted bantam. No roo in the chicken flock currently so that made me sad for the hens. Fertile duck eggs for DAYS though lol...

That was my thought but I brought it in, warmed n dried it and gave it to my bantam who just hatched 3 other ducks. She tucked it in like a champ and it is perfect and healthy😊 Digger is so spastic! Ugh

Has anyone ever had an egg hatch later than the others...3 days...and mama treat it like a frog she just found like she is trying to eat it?? I just got it out. Seems ok. Watching him close and warming him up. He’s coming around and half dried so🤞🏻

I did kind of number 2 and the same with a small portion of run. Mine free range all day so the rest of the run is open to free will use. They exit the big back door in the morning for now as babies use the main lil duck door. I did it the day I saw the first pip but wish I had sooner by a week...

Easier said. She disappeared during a dog attack...neighbor across the road. We thought she was gone. 3 days later she showed up. I penned her up with the others as it was roost time. Next morning as always I let them out. She was gone 10 min later. On and off for the next 2 weeks she would show...

I kind of hoped lol. My one nesting in the woods came in today after 5 DAYS! I got her some starter cuz man is she looking rough! But I can’t get to her nest to destroy it and she is determined to sit. Almost 45 days now😢

Not a perfect answer but I feed Dumor layer to all my birds. Babies get starter. Feeding mom and babies starter together as of today.

I am so glad you said that! Mine are finally eating and I was thinking um... now what?! So I did just that. Mom gets baby food lol. THANK you for clearing that lol😊

Today, digger has hatched five of her seven but they managed to smother the first one in the heat. My Bantam his hatched two of her three ducklings so far. We have three more eggs to go in total!

I am very excited to see if Martha can hatch her self a baby after all of her work!

The air sac is where it should be. No worries. In the picture they just used a basic oval shape but it should be at the fat end. If you take a pencil or some thing and mark The outline of the air cell, you can assess if it is getting larger as due date approaches. That is what you want. You...

Nothing on the camera?

Well, my Digger (IR duck) started sitting last month. Latte (KC mix) joined her after about a week. Let them keep 7. Gave 3 subsequent eggs to my Boots (mille fleur booted banty) who was sitting but we currently have no roo. Bella (brahma cross...looks like a red-gold brahma) was sitting too...

Awe😢 I will be so sad for Martha if she turns up empty handed...

Crazy! Interesting! But crazy!!

So...you are somewhere around day 19. That leaves as much as 9 days. I really wish we could get a good candle pic in deep darkness!! Have you dug deep through all the bedding? Is a snake hiding out and snatching eggs quietly? Girls hiding eggs? (Mine do)

So strange! On a happy note...

I can’t be 100% sure but I was expecting some hatching round the 4th. Was sure I saw internal pips in at least 2 on the 3rd but NOTHING yet. Girls hopped off together this morning just long enough for me to see all eggs still intact. If no hatching by tomorrow when my kids and grandbabies leave...

Mine have stayed put. They even stayed on eggs that someone layed each day for the first 2 weeks. Pretty sure I have internal pips but surprised no hatches yet😕and it would be a feat to move the girls off now. They rarely leave the nest and if they do, only one leaves and literally gets a few...