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

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NanaKat said:
Love this Great story!
Yes, eggs are amazing. Even the hatch due May 2 had some bouncers inside.
I wonder if the vigor of the breedstock imparts some of that resilience.....
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Vigor of the brodstock helps as well as them being fed better than normal nutrition. There is a reason why serious breeders do feed their brood stock better prior to and during laying season.
 
NanaKat said:
I kept thinking all morning about @Texas Kiki and her incubated, cooled then refridgerated Balut eggs....that surely some would be alive.
Don't know how long the incubator had been off, but it cooled down significantly.

16 of the 31 ducklings were wiggling and moving while one was definitely DIS since the last candling. Left the other 14 just in case I missed something.
Same with the other two trays...some movement in many of the eggs so I left most of those on the tray and pulled only the ones not up to the development date since the last candling....about 15 eggs total.

As for the Easter hatch...lost the one really chilled chick, but the two pippers had hatched and there are 5 more pipped!

BIG sigh of relief....we may just be okay!
:celebrate:wee:celebrate:wee:celebrate
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It sucks for any losses but all things considered, I’m so glad to hear it wasn’t worse. I’m so happy for you! :celebrate
 
littleprairieheartsfarm said:
We had four days to write the rest of the paper, but also were expected to take an exam, plus other matters came up that it had to be pushed to the side. (I had gotten 9 pages done the weekend before) So I wrote the remaining 25 pages yesterday. The professors love making things due on holiday weekends because then people forget and it’s less grading for them.

Yes, my chemistry professor is not the.....best..person out there. Quite frequently he gives out questions that are nearly impossible to answer.
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Wow that is awful!! Sorry about that. But glad you got it done!!

R2elk said:
It is amazing what eggs can take near the end. I had a turkey hen that hatched 8 of 11 eggs by the time she left the nest. On her way to the coop, she stopped and picked a fight through the fence with my dog. Her poults ere hidden in the grass while they fought. I grabbed up the poults and put them in the brooder. When the hen finished fighting with the dog she was frantic trying to find her missing poults.

It was a cool day and her nest was in the shade. She spent the next 6 hours hunting for her poults before she finally gave up and went back to her nest. Two days later she left the nest again with two more live poults. Only one egg failed to hatch.
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Wow that is amazing!! Did you ever give her her other poults back??
 
Called my numbers on the Easter HAL...last five chicks are fluffing in the hatcher.
Set 73
Moved 54 to lockdown
Hatched 46 but lost on to chill
Total 45 live chicks.

I'm leaving the rest of the eggs in hatcher until tomorrow just because I have had really late bloomers a few times.
Then, the duck eggs will go in lockdown after I sterilize the hatching tray tomorrow.
 

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