Hello, my female khaki decided to have babies in the middle of winter. She barely became an adult in Sep. she had 9 eggs 2 hatched on the 6th sadly between the cold and their father they died, a third egg hatched later that day and that baby is fine and thriving at 5 days old now. She had 2 eggs...
I assisted my ducklings hatching and it is premature unfortunately however I've let the yolk absorb and kept it moist , I've also kept the duckling warm as much as i can , last thing I did was give it sugar water and reheated a disposable shirt. I don't have an incubator so I'm hoping this is...
This is my first time hatching eggs and it has been an adventure. They were Ebay eggs, a second batch because the first was smashed in the mail. 2 of the 18 hatched and are doing well. My incubator was great. It maintained 45-50% humidity and 99-100.5° pretty much the entire incubation period...
This is my first time using and incubator and the eggs are at day 23. Yesterday I noticed something really strange. It looks like in all the eggs the baby ducks are rubbing against membrane, but I’m not sure. I was wondering what to do because these guys look like they wanna come out. Do I go...
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my sister accidentally dropped an egg that had already pipped the airsack and caused the shell to break. It seemed to be drying inside the egg so she helped it out after allowing it to stay long enough to absorb the yolk. We tried putting the chick under the hen but she kept pecking at...
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One of our Roosters started having sex with the hens recently, yet he is only 12 1/2 weeks old. I have never seen that happening so fast, usually they tend to get older before they try such things. Yesterday, I have seen him 3 times in action, which made me wonder whether such an...
I had a time crawling all over internet articles that pertain to ducklings and chicks hatching with their yolks not being fully absorbed. Which seems to be surprisingly rare. This may sometimes occur when the duckling/chick is premature. All of the articles I came across had rather sad...
We are hatching duck eggs in our classroom in an incubator. Monday we lost a duckling who hatched prematurely (we're assuming - it came out bloody and still had a full yoke). Yesterday two more pipped and then staled. We decided to leave them and give them time.
This morning my coworker arrived...
I think we have a preemi, started pipping yesterday morning externally the wrong end was no progress so pierced a tiny hole in membrane so it had air, left all day under mum, last night a lot of shell picked off, we think by mum, but she was pecking too hard and we saw blood, she had already had...
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I could really do with some advise. I have 2 female African Runner Ducks who have been sitting on 5 eggs for around 2 1/2 - 3 weeks . around 5pm today I found one of the eggs in the garden. It looks like a rat has began eating the shell but the duckling was still moving inside I emptied...
HELP! My new baby chick seams to have her stomach coming out from her rear end and it seems to be attached to her, it won't come off and she has been hatched for 2-3 hours now! I don't want to put her down, as I am not skilled in the area, the bulge seems mostly red but is a little yellow I am...