When you mentioned your symptoms earlier it made me think of meningitis too. I hope you feel better! As for your eggs, sorry your having fertility issues. I know that fertility can go down during this time of year.My first thought ran to meningitis, since one of G's friends is in the hospital with it! But, I seem to be doing a little bit better now. My lungs aren't quite as bad, only slightly painful, no more burning fire. I have also been awake for about an hour and a half, which is awesome. Yesterday, the longest I was up for was about half an hour at most, and most of the time, it was only a flicker of a few seconds. So, I am doing better already!
As for the hatch, mine isn't going so well. I pulled my second tray out and I hardly have any eggs left! At first I thought I pulled the wrong tray out, but I know it's the right one.Then, when I was checking another tray (only five days old, but still looks like a very bad fertility rate), I slid it back in and heard a crunch. One of the very few eggs in that entire tray that actually had development, I had crushed! I quit right there, removed it, moved the eggs near it so they wouldn't get glued in, and didjn't check anything else. I also lost one more duck egg, so I'm down to 3, out of 9! I have seven duck eggs to set, plus a turkey egg and three chicken eggs, but at this rate, it looks like all of the eggs I can collect in a week will at most get me 1-2 ducklings hatched!
4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long
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I haven't been having a whole heck of a lot of luck with ducks lately. One getting run over, one starving to death, one dying of prolapse, then losing a baby and having fertility issues and losing ducklings still in the eggs! They at least started laying better, the past two days I've gotten an egg from each hen. Hopefully I can still hatch enough babies out to bring in a little bit of money. I have someone interested in some chickies, so that'll help a smidge. Once I lost my computer, I lost my budget, so I have no idea where I'm at with expense and income, though I'm fairly positive I'm in the red with the birds.
8Days Till Hatch Day!
Everyone must be wrapping presents! Who wants to come do mine?
LOL...I actually do..have a few more to wrap. And I am usually all done by now. What's up with that? I must be getting old, doing that ~ I will get to it later ~ thinking. Guess I best get busy.
There are probably a lot of family parties today and tonight..Have fun everyone! Enjoy your family and friends!
All we have to do is make a bunch of twice baked potatoes, then we are ready for tomorrow.
Candled last night 13/16 still going strong!
Yer not done wrapping those presents yet?! Maybe I SHOULD have come over for wrapping and Egg Nog....or at least stop giving you more jobs to do.
As an early Christmas present, my sister gave me a sign that says, "I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned" with a picture of a rooster crossing the road in the backround. I love it, haha. I would take a picture, but it seems that my camera isn't working.
That is absolutely beautiful, I loved it!
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