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

[Cyprus]

The cracked egg died.

 

[Glitterchicks]

The cracked egg died.

I'm so sorry!! We all know you love your babies and accidents DO happen!

I'm so damn clumsy...I KNOW I'd have some egg cracking casualties on a semi regular basis if I attempted hatching anything.

 

[Cyprus]

I'm so sorry!! We all know you love your babies and accidents DO happen!

I'm so damn clumsy...I KNOW I'd have some egg cracking casualties on a semi regular basis if I attempted hatching anything.

Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm so clumsy that so far I haven't completed a single hatch without at least 1 cracked egg each time

 

[Kiki]

Day two.
All three are alive.

 

[debid]

Wow, wow, wow! 3:3 are moving like that?!

 

[EquiSally]

Day two.
All three are alive.
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Yay!! That’s great! I hope they keep going!
My broody has two more babies from her “fluctuating temp nest” this morning. Yay!
I went to check on them last night and saw an angry mom trying to kill (insert expletives ) fire ants that made their way into her nest box and INTO the two newly pipped eggs. Ugh!
I moved momma and the one chick from the other day into a different box. I had to chip away half the egg shell on the two pipped eggs so I could kill the few fire ants that were in them.
I must have caught it just in time because they are okay this morning. A little weak (they did have a rude start to life) but they found their way out of the rest of the egg shell and look okay to make it.
So at midnight (when I found all this) I sprayed the coop with tempo, soaked the ground and around the nest boxes. No ants this morning. I hate those terrible things.
Momma hen is doing well, still sitting on the other eggs with her three babies. She’s a trooper.

 

[Kiki]

Yay!! That’s great! I hope they keep going!
My broody has two more babies from her “fluctuating temp nest” this morning. Yay!
I went to check on them last night and saw an angry mom trying to kill (insert expletives ) fire ants that made their way into her nest box and INTO the two newly pipped eggs. Ugh!
I moved momma and the one chick from the other day into a different box. I had to chip away half the egg shell on the two pipped eggs so I could kill the few fire ants that were in them.
I must have caught it just in time because they are okay this morning. A little weak (they did have a rude start to life) but they found their way out of the rest of the egg shell and look okay to make it.
So at midnight (when I found all this) I sprayed the coop with tempo, soaked the ground and around the nest boxes. No ants this morning. I hate those terrible things.
Momma hen is doing well, still sitting on the other eggs with her three babies. She’s a trooper.

Wow you got lucky finding them at the right time. I giggled when I read the time....who goes out to check on their chickens at midnight. Only a crazy chicken lady.

 

[Kiki]

What is tempo?

 

[EquiSally]

Wow you got lucky finding them at the right time. I giggled when I read the time....who goes out to check on their chickens at midnight. Only a crazy chicken lady.

Lol! I’m totally a crazy chicken lady. These are Jeraldo’s (my white crested black polish roo) first little babies here. Just some “barnyard mutts,” but I can’t stop checking on them. So yeah, there I was in my backyard at midnight with a flashlight and a two gallon sprayer full of revenge.

 

[Morrigan]

3 live balutties?

The New Man must have been good luck.