they are crosses between pekin and mallard females and cayuga and magpie drakes. I can hear it peeping, and pecking the egg so hopefully it externally pips soon
Today is the 30th day of incubating my duck eggs. One of the eggs internally pipped yesterday (day 29) around 11:00 am. It is 10:00 am now and it still hasn't externally pipped. I've heard it should take 12-24 hours in between the internal and external pip. I'm wondering if I should help, or...
We live in Texas so we don't have snow. They will have a coop to go in to when it rains (it will be really big). and they get shade under our duck coop and from trees near by, they will also have lots of shade from their chicken coop when we build it.
I mainly want to keep things out. The fence is 6 ft chicken wire reinforced with 4 in square wire. I don't need it to protect the chickens from the weather, just predators.
ill try to send pictues.
I have a large chicken run (it is about 50 ft x 20 ft) and i was wondering how to cover to and what to cover it with.
Any information would help.Thanks
I put my 3 duck eggs in lockdown yesterday morning ( tody is day 26 of incubation). All three of them had internally pipped, and two have hatched, the last egg has not externally pipped yet. It internally pipped over 36 hours ago, and i see no movement, or hear any chirping.
What should I do?
I have two (2 week old) blue chicks, one has a black comb, their feet are grey and their soles are pinkish-yellow, and one had white tips on her wings. They are bigger than my Dominique chicks (they are the same age).
Any ideas of what they might be?