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Babies!! Can you tell who hatched last? In the end, I had four eggs survive the temp spike to hatch. I left two others in the incubator hoping I was wrong about them quitting: one questionable egg (it was really dark, so hard to candle) and my favorite egg that may have drowned after...

Three external pips and counting...the waiting is excruciating!! I finally heard some peeps from the little buggers last night. I had my boyfriend listen this morning and he thought it was pretty cool I'm hoping to have some zipping by the time I get home from work and my lovely bf will be...

Had my first pip this morning! Only one egg pipped, but he got his internal and external done from last night to this morning...I could have missed the internal pip last might when candling, as I was a bit upset over the air sac disappearing in my favorite egg. It may have internally pipped and...

Don't know if anyone is following this thread except for me...but that's ok, since it gives me an easy way to log what's going on out on the pond with automatic timestamps Unfortunately, I merely caught my first laying hen laying her Saturday egg She was out on the pond after fussing over...

Just took a walk around the pond to look for eggs...zero:(, but decided to peek in the duck house to see how many eggs were in the nest (12 at last count two nights ago). I noticed the groups were a little different today and no pair across the pond, so asked if anyone was inside when I poked my...

Quote: I've thought about getting a broody chicken to sit on my duck eggs for me, but I don't have electricity on the pond, so I think I'd end up with a small coop by the house at least in the winter. The ducks are enough work in the wintertime! I do have at least two more hens laying...

Still working on the duck incubation thread...have just been so busy and a bunch of links I messaged from my phone didn't come through to my e-mail...grrr. My incubator eggs are at day 7, and I had an exciting first candle--I think only 2 or 3 were infertile or too old to develop and I may have...

Hopefully the eggs I've collected will go into the incubator tonight. I have a cheapo Wal-Mart Max/Min Thermometer/Hygrometer that I'm monitoring the temperature and humidity fluctuations with, but it doesn't seem all that reliable. I got a Fluker's analog hygrometer and started calibrating it...

That's so wonderful, Mary! I guess my girl wasn't too early after all. We don't have a barn out there on the pond, just a hobbled together duck house (with some improvements planned over the summer, of course!). I did put the dogloo I used when they were ducklings out next to the duck house...

Well, I stole my hen's clutch last night and there were ten eggs, but I think I missed two a bit off to the side on an earlier count. I'll be working on getting the incubator sanitized, mended and stable tonight. (The crack in the top that he told me about was actually the whole corner broken...

I wonder if my layer is the hen who was badly injured and spent a month in the garage in January. That might have kick started her early, especially with the gourmet diet to get her eating again. I'm going to fetch my friend's incubator in a bit and see if I can get it stabilized over the next...

Yes, we're close, Mary. I'm near Wyanet. The pond was fully thawed for the first time today and I've put some hay in for my layer, but a far as I can tell, she only goes in to turn the eggs and no new egg today. I think the flock has her sleeping outside. Supposed to be a cold one tonight, so...

I'm looking for some advice on how to go about setting up one of my hens for brooding her own hatch. I have a flock of ten Cayugas born last June. One of my hens started laying at the start of February. We ate the first week's eggs and then she either hid the eggs for the next week or so or...