➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Lazy Farmer]

I couldn't get across the border anyway.

Start building your ramps wick..

 

[featherhead007]

WoW, frozen chicken! saves a trip to the supermarket now doesn't it?

 

[featherhead007]

DUX rule!!

Quack!

 

[Morrigan]

Ducklings are adorable and whenever I see them, I want to hatch some. Then I remember -- I live in a semi-desert; I don't have a pond; and I have all the eggs I can handle from my chickens. Still want them, it's just not practical for my set-up.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So wait... If I pull a few eggs from my broody hen, I can incubate them? I was worried that they may not hatch because she just has started a few weeks ago. If I move her and her eggs (not her eggs but the eggs of another hen that she is laying on), will she abandon them?

Soooo many questions! Aaahhh!

If your broody hen is setting on eggs and you have an incubator that's ready...sure you can pull some or all the eggs and incubate them. I've had eggs that have been allowed to go cold for 12 hours with no repercussions. Four or five times now!

1) Broody got on the wrong nest
2) I shut off my incubator to turn the eggs, forgot to turn it on. (Tax day)
3) Turned it off another day and forgot to turn it on AGAIN!
4) Did the same thing as #2 and #3 on a different set of eggs during harvest
5) Took 2 pails of eggs from broodies to clean the coop. Didn't start incubating until 12 hours later!
6) Still had more eggs in the pails and felt guilty. I set 2 visiably fertile eggs 60 hours later. One hatched and she's laying eggs now. (I should finish my thread)
7) Husband brought cold duck eggs in from the field. They were cold for a day for certain. But we suspect they were cold for 4 days because of what machine tracks broke through the nest.

My broodies won't stop for nothing. But yes, a broody may abandon her eggs if she's moved. If she can be moved into a movable nest right where she is brooding and she allows it...you can move the entire nest to a different location. Preferably while it's dark.

 

[featherhead007]

It is a sanctuary State!

I live in a sanctuary town

 

[ronott1]

I live in a sanctuary town

Me Too!

I work at a Sanctuary University too

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Start building your ramps wick..

I don't think there's a wall though.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

What if this dude tried to eat 120
Balut eggs instead?

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

What if this dude tried to eat 120
Balut eggs instead?

I just threw up in my mouth a lil