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

[CrazyCrttr75]

Keep an eye on the light colored chipmunk. I’ve had a 50/50 shot between those being a cockerel and pullet with most everyone else having the former. Even our pullet had us thinking boy for a long while.

I will. They are all supposed to be pullets but we'll see what happens.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I will. They are all supposed to be pullets but we'll see what happens.

EEs are one of the more inaccurately sexed breeds. I’m excited to see how it feathers in! Fingers crossed it’s a traditional feather pattern

 

[NanaKat]

Should I be worried about the scratching?

Really cute healthy babies! Not to worry about the scratching...very normal.

Tornado sirens, no power.. it was a fun long morning.

I finally sat down at 9 pm. Busy day...flooded, boggy ground for feeding the calf in the rain...huge winds...broken tree branches. Lunch with hubby's siblings and Doctor appt went well. Get home to a heifer calving on the hill under a damaged tree.
Moved chicks around...some to the barn, some to a brooder box away from the heat lamp, some to the heat lamp brooder and those from the hatcher into their first brooder. And cleaned all the brooders.
Candled the eggs. All 51 duck eggs were fertile...evidence of development that quit in 11 of them. I attribute that to a double crested gene. So there are 40 bouncing duck embryos and 9 chick embryos on that tray!
Another tray has two active ducklings and 11 chicks.
In the Hovabator in the house, there are 17 chicks and 2 ducklings growing on schedule on one side, 11 chick embryos on one week and I set 11 chicken eggs in the open spaces. Will move the 17 to the hatcher Sunday.

Okay so we have a confusing situation regarding one of our hatched out blue chicks. We had one extra egg that we thought was a double and wasn’t, it just had one giant chick in it.
Fast forward 5 weeks, said chick is male, has feathered feet plus a single comb as well as barring in it’s dark blue feathers.

So...the only two options for our hens to produce feathered feet are our Black Langshans and Light Brahmas.

Where is this barring coming from?

Probaby the Columbian pattern from the Brahmas. I have that happen with the Columbian Wyandotte when I breed to the White Wyandotte....actually get a black bird with barred feathers.

 

[ShrekDawg]

This one. The smug look just kills me.

LOL totally so smug!! I am trying to figure out if that is the same one as the one in the side yard that looked directly at me too. I don’t think it is but idk. I can’t tell. It might be because I think this one came over here from there and I took it’s pic. But one of them had so much attitude LOL

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also I am sure this is a stupid question and/or impossible to tell but is there any way to know how old these deer are? They seemed pretty young to my dad and I as they are still pretty small, especially the little one right by the window, but we know nothing about deer.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Really cute healthy babies! Not to worry about the scratching...very normal.


I finally sat down at 9 pm. Busy day...flooded, boggy ground for feeding the calf in the rain...huge winds...broken tree branches. Lunch with hubby's siblings and Doctor appt went well. Get home to a heifer calving on the hill under a damaged tree.
Moved chicks around...some to the barn, some to a brooder box away from the heat lamp, some to the heat lamp brooder and those from the hatcher into their first brooder. And cleaned all the brooders.
Candled the eggs. All 51 duck eggs were fertile...evidence of development that quit in 11 of them. I attribute that to a double crested gene. So there are 40 bouncing duck embryos and 9 chick embryos on that tray!
Another tray has two active ducklings and 11 chicks.
In the Hovabator in the house, there are 17 chicks and 2 ducklings growing on schedule on one side, 11 chick embryos on one week and I set 11 chicken eggs in the open spaces. Will move the 17 to the hatcher Sunday.



Probaby the Columbian pattern from the Brahmas. I have that happen with the Columbian Wyandotte when I breed to the White Wyandotte....actually get a black bird with barred feathers.

Thank you. It has seemed to settle down as time went on.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Really cute healthy babies! Not to worry about the scratching...very normal.


I finally sat down at 9 pm. Busy day...flooded, boggy ground for feeding the calf in the rain...huge winds...broken tree branches. Lunch with hubby's siblings and Doctor appt went well. Get home to a heifer calving on the hill under a damaged tree.
Moved chicks around...some to the barn, some to a brooder box away from the heat lamp, some to the heat lamp brooder and those from the hatcher into their first brooder. And cleaned all the brooders.
Candled the eggs. All 51 duck eggs were fertile...evidence of development that quit in 11 of them. I attribute that to a double crested gene. So there are 40 bouncing duck embryos and 9 chick embryos on that tray!
Another tray has two active ducklings and 11 chicks.
In the Hovabator in the house, there are 17 chicks and 2 ducklings growing on schedule on one side, 11 chick embryos on one week and I set 11 chicken eggs in the open spaces. Will move the 17 to the hatcher Sunday.



Probaby the Columbian pattern from the Brahmas. I have that happen with the Columbian Wyandotte when I breed to the White Wyandotte....actually get a black bird with barred feathers.

Yeah we were flooded here too. We had so much to do though. Got the kennel picked up for the ducks/goose to have, cleared out a space for that to go up, cleaned the open air coop since it was soaking wet. Picked up all of the debris from the storm. Four hawk attacks today, three on the birds, one on our smallest miniature horse! Spring migration is here.

Thank you! I thought it could be contributed to the Columbian pattern but I didn’t think it would actually transfer over as barring. So that also means the Brahma has a single comb gene as well. Hmmm. Not good.

 

[NanaKat]

They’re warming up under the heat plate.
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Well, they were. Once they’re warmed they come back out for a bite. Then back in they go. Omgosh I love them!

New chickies make the best substitute for TV!
What brand is your water container? I like the strap hanger and the divider in the water reservoir.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

New chickies make the best substitute for TV!
What brand is your water container? I like the strap hanger and the divider in the water reservoir.

It looks like a regular container with glass beads in the bottom and a homemade strap hanger. I love the idea of the strap hanger.

 

[Conan]

Also I am sure this is a stupid question and/or impossible to tell but is there any way to know how old these deer are? They seemed pretty young to my dad and I as they are still pretty small, especially the little one right by the window, but we know nothing about deer.

They look young, probably under 2 years. They are slim and leggy. Kinda like people, they beef up and start to sag in areas with age. If there are real woods nearby, might be fun to go look for sheds!