April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[FortCluck]

Looks like I'll be joining this hatch along as well. I bought 12 mixed breed duck eggs today! The seller only has 2 males to 30 hens so she was hesitant to sell them as "hatching eggs". Since I only want 2-3 ducklings, she was 4 minutes from my house, and reasonably priced at @3/dozen I decided to take my chances. I went back and forth a few times on if I should hatch some or buy from a farm store. Guess we now know which way I leaned. They were added to the incubator this evening.

I'm doing ducks too

 

[gmjarvi]

Lots of ducks hatching this month!

Welcome @UThobbyfarmer !

 

[FortCluck]

I'm still waiting to see if my eggs are fertile. I put them in on the 14th

 

[gmjarvi]

I'm still waiting to see if my eggs are fertile. I put them in on the 14th

Yes, maybe I should say lots of ducks attempting to hatch this month lol. I will be candling mine on the 23rd to check for development. It's going to be hard to wait that long! They went in on the 13th.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I'm doing ducks too

I saw that! I think you put yours in Saturday? Are they from the same source as the other duck eggs?

I'm super excited to know how many of mine are fertile. I should know in a few days.

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

I am joining in the duck hatching. My broody duck is sitting on 7 eggs that are hopefully fertile. I just have to wait and see. Oh i also plan on putting some in my bator to hatch at the end of april

 

[FortCluck]

I saw that! I think you put yours in Saturday? Are they from the same source as the other duck eggs?

I'm super excited to know how many of mine are fertile. I should know in a few days.

These ones are from my flock

I bought my ducks a pool and my drake thinks it was for mating my husband was taking pics of them in their pool and he said it got rated xxx so he had to stop taking pics

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

What do your breeder pens look like if you don't mind me asking?

Don’t mind at all. I don’t really have fancy breeding pens, more just different coops and runs. I have one decent sized coop for about 10 birds with a big Premier1 electric fence as a run with bird netting over top. Then another is a coop with a super predator proofed run for about 7 birds. And then I have a growout coop that’s like a little coop with a small attached run that I could possibly keep a pair or trio in depending on their temperament. I’d probably let those ones free range. I also have a little quarantine coop that I could keep a pair or trio in I just realized.
I’m not sure what I will do for the ones I build this summer. Need to put more thought into it.

Below is my coop with Premier1 run. Ignore my poor boy with his beard plucked out.

I’ll try to find more pics.

 

[gmjarvi]

Well, Highland Homestead just put their eggs on sale soooooooo looks like I'm ordering more eggs

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Well, Highland Homestead just put their eggs on sale soooooooo looks like I'm ordering more eggs

Yessss do it! I just saw that!