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    Australian Spotted Duck?

    My Aussies lay 120 eggs a year.
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    Hatching

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    Hatching

    That is so cool just Little help when they are fragile turns them into dinosaur birds. We joke all the time that our chickens are mini Trex's.
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    Hatching

    A new one for the record books. my hens eggs hatched and they all moved out of the coop to run in the yard so I checked her nest box for eggs that didn't hatch when I find this mess under the straw that looks like a white hotdog with egg shell pieces all over it. To my horror I find its a...
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    Do ducks need fresh water if they live near a pond?

    There was a large farm near my house when I was growing up the farmer had Peacocks and he feed them hard boiled egg by hand. I want to try that
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    Do ducks need fresh water if they live near a pond?

    What kind of incubator do you have
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    Cool name I love that show.

    Cool name I love that show.
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    Do ducks need fresh water if they live near a pond?

    It sound like you have a great set up. My grandkids always want to hold the ducklings we let them for a few minuets on Sundays but they pay for it if the hen gets a hold of them. I want Peacocks my wife made fun of me and bought a stuffed animal Peacock and said that as close as I'm going to...
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    Do ducks need fresh water if they live near a pond?

    I keep the small ice fishing sleds in my duck runs and change the water every night. They hold a lot of water and the swim in them We put pond heaters in the sleds this winter instead of the heated waterer they worked out really well. We let them free range when we are home and can watch them...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    I did a quick candle before work and I found a bird had broken into the air sac between 10 the night before and 7 AM and I was in a hurry to get to work and thought it would be fine until I got home. When I got home it was dead so now any time I see one break through I put a tack hole in the...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    I have fan powered incubators they catch up quick also when they are getting close to lockdown we don't pick them up we candle them in place. We can go through the whole bunch in 60 seconds. Not candling when in lockdown can be deadly you can't see if they have broken into the air sack. Any time...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    The hens rolls the eggs six times a day. We watch them very closely so if the hens is doing it I feel like I can too. We tapp on the shells very lightly and try to imitate the the sound they make. We try to recreate the most natural experience for them as we can. I think one of the reasons they...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    You have to candle all the time and get a feel for it.
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    The old school guys don't understand when is okay to help we intubate 50 to 60 a year and we have got in down to a siance we never hurt or kill any birds they all get out safe and healthy. When you have been doing it for years you learn the signs of distress the last bird we messed up on was 3...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    A prairie Hawk, while it was migrating, flew into my yard and had my snowy, Australian spotted duck and was trying to eat it. All the other birds were making so much noise I ran outside, it saw me and flew away. She had a small spot on the side of her neck, where he started to eat her. We only...
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    I am so sorry the only time that happened to me the temp got to hot in the incubator what kind of incubator do you have?
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    URGENT Hatching help please - what happened?

    I have had duckings with birth defects when I was having trouble keeping the temperature where I wanted it. We candle every night and tap lightly on the shell with our finger nails and chirp and talk to each egg we get lots of response so we know how they are doing. We have some that will go...
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    Will they make fertile eggs?

    Segregation is important if you want pairs to mate I keep some separate all year. now my Green head Drake and my Blue head hen Australian spotted duck will not separate if we do the hen will constantly call and cry and get very depressed and agitated. but they were segregated for a long time and...
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