I'm having a tough time with my Butterscotch calls, these white and magpie call ducks have hatched much better.
Do you have a broody hen (duck or chicken)? They do the best incubating.
Do you assist?
I had a Russian Tortoise named Linus. The little shit was always escaping and he was fast don't let people tell you different.
Freaking had him outside in a play area with a little wooden house and he dug an escape tunnel in the wooden house area like a freaking Alcatraz inmate breaking out of...
I make a loop of duct tape and put it on things I don't want the cats on.
Mine were always sitting on the frog terrarium or the aquarium or stupid stuff like that. So, I started putting strips of duck tape sticky side up on things. The duct tape would stick to them and scare the beejezes out of...
The 16th. :) There are 6 of them, I don't know why I wrote 7 before. All are fertile, I should have ducklings hatching for 3 weeks straight after that.
Yes, an older guy with a farm bought all 20.
I had some interest splitting them up, but no one followed through.
I have decided to just breed whites, black magpies, butterscotchs, and my silvers (I have what I think are a silver bibbed and 2 silver magpies).
What I call magpies are more anconas...
I sold 20 Call Ducks, so I just have 20 Call Ducks left. But... I have 20 call duck eggs in the incubator. :lol:
I'm sure I don't need to keep them all.
Funny thing happened yesterday afternoon. I saw that my Butterscotch hen duck hadn't laid an egg yesterday, but their pen was a wet mess. So, I put in some wood shavings.
She kept going over to the feed pan and looking at me to get her mealworms.
Mealworms to trade for eggs though...
So, she...