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

[Kiki]

I think that my broody has a few too many eggs lol
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1st hatch of the year (finally)
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The parent stock is white chantecler and buckeye(mahogany red), so i have no idea where the black & grey is coming from.

, but not least...

So close.

 

[Kiki]

I'm having a nightmare of a day.
We lost power last night and the light company couldn't figure out why. 6 1/2 hours later they figured it out.
My incubator got down to 77 which I didn't think was going to be too bad.
Once I got it back up to temperature and thought it was safe I fell asleep at about 5 this morning.

I woke up 3 hours later with that at 107 degrees.


I am pissed to say the least.
I'm waiting for tonight to candle them all to get a good look and see if I can tell if I killed them all or not.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

I'm having a nightmare of a day.
We lost power last night and the light company couldn't figure out why. 6 1/2 hours later they figured it out.
My incubator got down to 77 which I didn't think was going to be too bad.
Once I got it back up to temperature and thought it was safe I fell asleep at about 5 this morning.

I woke up 3 hours later with that at 107 degrees.


I am pissed to say the least.
I'm waiting for tonight to candle them all to get a good look and see if I can tell if I killed them all or not.

Oh no! I had the same thing happen with my 1st hatch this year. I lost them all

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

I'm having a nightmare of a day.
We lost power last night and the light company couldn't figure out why. 6 1/2 hours later they figured it out.
My incubator got down to 77 which I didn't think was going to be too bad.
Once I got it back up to temperature and thought it was safe I fell asleep at about 5 this morning.

I woke up 3 hours later with that at 107 degrees.


I am pissed to say the least.
I'm waiting for tonight to candle them all to get a good look and see if I can tell if I killed them all or not.

Oh noooo! I’m so sry! I hope all or at least some make it.

 

[Kiki]

Oh noooo! I’m so sry! I hope all or at least some make it.

I'll be happy with 10.

 

[NanaKat]

I'm having a nightmare of a day.
We lost power last night and the light company couldn't figure out why. 6 1/2 hours later they figured it out.
My incubator got down to 77 which I didn't think was going to be too bad.
Once I got it back up to temperature and thought it was safe I fell asleep at about 5 this morning.

I woke up 3 hours later with that at 107 degrees.


I am pissed to say the least.
I'm waiting for tonight to candle them all to get a good look and see if I can tell if I killed them all or not.

Oh my!
Lower temperatures don't seem to be as bad as higher temperatures. Sure hope some survive the stress.

 

[Kiki]

Oh my!
Lower temperatures don't seem to be as bad as higher temperatures. Sure hope some survive the stress.

I'm worried that if I do actually have some that didn't die...are they going to be messed up? Ugh. I am not playing nurse.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

I'm worried that if I do actually have some that didn't die...are they going to be messed up? Ugh. I am not playing nurse.

If they survived, i don't think there will be problems... but that's just a guess

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

The littles have been curious and checking out the big chicks coop. They like perching on the nest box bars lol. They have been checking out the nest boxes as well. At least a few of them. Which is better than what they do in their own coop. They’ve been sleeping in one of the nest boxes instead of roosting on the bars. Ugh!

 

[NanaKat]

Today, I chose to take it easy...no work in the garden until 8:30pm when I took the girls out to potty. I pulled grass from the asparagus bed.
Instead, I cleaned the brooders, fed the pens of breeders and cleaned all the water containers.
Then lunch and decided to take a nap!

Then....
Found two hatched babies in a broody nest! So I pulled all the eggs from under the 8 broody hens...two hens had 15 and 18 eggs. The others had from 6 to 12 each. All eggs were in different stages of development because the other hens were laying in their nests too.
So I candled and divided them by days of development...5, 10, 15, 18 and due. Clear eggs went to the kitchen. Anything else under 5 days will be scrambled for the flock.
After marking and dating the incubating eggs, I gave the 5 due eggs to the hen with the two chicks. And gave sets of eggs to each of the hens sitting in a nest box. The banty hens each got 6 eggs and the large fowl girls got 10.
One broody hen was deciding on a nest...wanting to settle with a hen already on eggs.
I took 10 chicks that hatched yesterday and gave 6 to the hen with the two hatched babies. She will end up with 13 when her 5 eggs hatch tonight or in the morning. She was so tickled to take her babies...nearly ate my hand.
The other 4 chicks I gave to one of the banty hens with 6 eggs because she had been sharing the nest with the hen with the two chicks earlier in the day. She was really sweet cluck talking to her babies and eggs. This way, when she takes her babies to the floor in the morning, the extra broody hen will adopt the 6 eggs and have a nest all her own.
I've learned to think like a chicken.

Then I rounded up the ducks to go to coop. Locked up the chickens, checked on all the babies, cleaned the hatching tray.
Had a sandwich hubby made me for a late dinner. Took the dogs out and pulled that grass.
I'm all showered and ready for bed!

Here are the 7 Delaware bantam chicks...I promised a picture... Just for @Texas Kiki I put in fresh paper towels for the second photo.