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

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I’m done with my first two classes for the day. Now I get to sit around until 2 for my next class. That means I’ll be working on the website! And look up Muscovy ducks because apparently duck eggs are on demand right now and we only have two hens to supply.

Kiki, today is Day 4 for the eggs, should I candle tonight?

 

[Cyprus]

Before

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Heeeey!!!
Sorry... i've been helping my friend move into her house and then took the fam to the lake for a long weekend!
No time for cooking classes (though I could probably use hypnosis to help my grocery store phobia), and the couch cost less than chicken coop supplies !
What did I miss? I think i've been gone about a week .
I'VE MISSED YOU ALL!!!

We missed you too!
Why doesn't real life realize that we need our BYC time too?

 

[Tesumph]

Ah.. fresh coop smell.

Nothing in the snake trap I’ve had out (which I suppose is a good thing), but I DID find the cutest baby brown snake ever.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

@dpenning hatched some duckies I see...I'm catching up from last night.
Conan when on a vacation to Thor's Well...look it up, I want to go.
Farmer Brown had a house delivered!
ON A HUGE TRUCK!
It is so darn neat and she is going to make a video diary about the house for her. I can't wait.

And @Pugsabi caught Kikiitis and bought several incubators and ordered eggs!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

YES!!!
Very cute!
I can't wait to see it after the addition!
How far did it travel? So exciting!!

It traveled roughly 80 km (about 50 miles). Almost no cracks or anything!

 

[casportpony]

I only can still tell just 3 apart.
Some of the regular ones are getting white feathers too.

So cute! Love the little blonde one.

 

[RUNuts]

What kind of eggs are you hatching? Breed?

Breed- since I am learning, i got some barnyard surprises, brown eggs from a local chicken rancher extraordinaire and coworker. Rooster is a mutt. Eggs are collected from several different hens. Production Reds, Australorps & Dominiques - a colorful flock. No idea what I wound up with. Isn't this exciting!

I asked for horse eggs, but no one understood. I settled for surprises. Pardon the mess. #8 broke and got all over everybody else. The hen went to eat and was not sharing with everyone else.

10 or 15 what the heck!
You didn't write it down?????

Floating blob mean no bueno.
Clear...trash them if it has been 15 days!

GET A BRIGHTER LIGHT TODAY!

Yep. 10 or 15 days. I'm almost certain of it. They should pip next week or next month.

Should the blobs be different sizes? I mean large blob that takes the whole egg except for the 2 bits on the ends? There is one that is only half that size. Should I pull it too? It was pretty so I stuck it back in the nest. Maybe it's just a runt.

Looking at Pugsy's chart, it looks like the large blobs are farther along than I thought. If it's warm outside, does that speed the development? It's been awfully hot. I can just imagine those chicks want to come out and get a drink of water.

This candling stuff is pretty boring, Kiki. Got mosquitos biting my knees & gnats buzzing my ears while I'm fighting a hen, balancing an egg on a flashlight in the dark hoping the vampires and werewolves aren't sneaking up on me to look at a blob. Then you have to be smart enough to know if the blob is good or not. Very confusing.

Remind me how to sex the eggs again. Please.

So tonight I need to outline the air cell so the chick knows where to pip and get out at. I like the way you draw the directions on the egg. You'd think the hen would do that when she laid it.

Oh, and numbering them. Can I wait until they hatch? I don't want to be too early and count them before they hatch.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

@The Farmers' Daughter

Thanks Kiki!
We are going to move the doorway all the way to the left. I think I mentioned in the video, I've got a sideboard that I'll run out from the wall to create a counter.
The biggest problem that I see with your suggestion, and would cost a fortune, is that that wall is the load bearing wall for the whole house.

 

[casportpony]

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/1070/vitamins-and-minerals-important-to-poultry/

gonna bookmark that!