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[greyartist]

UPDATE, 6 favs, 7 mixed, including 1 turkin. There are 12 eggs left in the bator. It really stinks! But I still hear peeping. Is that just from where the others hatched?

 

[sunket77]

DAY 14! after candling here is what I have....

3 nankin (these have made it all the way so far!)

2 buff silkie-cohin crosses (lost one)

6 Jap. bantams (lost 2)

and ONE duck

I am so glad this will be a busy week

so I won't look at the bator like 100 times a day!! Can't wait till Tuesday!

 

[vfem]

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Just remember it is likely that duck needs 28-30 days of incubation and not 21!

 

[Illia]

Lockdown today!!

I seperated all my Marans eggs by bloodlines, and seperated my Ameraucanas by bloodlines and egg color quality so I can tell the ones who hatched from the best eggs.

Sadly I dropped one of my Ameraucana eggs today, it was broken beyond hot wax repairing, and so I had to chuck it.

 

[newduckie]

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very sorry that you lost a baby. that always sucks.

 

[newduckie]

just an update on snakebite...(formally known as miracle) lol. I thought the name snakebite was appropriate. This is a picture of him today. they all had their first outing at 2 and three days old. All 11 went out and had their first swim.. in a bowl lid with a deep 1/4 inch of water...lol
snakebite.

swim time......

 

[cluckcluck42]

Newduckie- Omg! They are so adorable. I really want ducks and you are NOT HELPING!

Illia: I am so sorry you dropped an egg, I dread handling the eggs 'just in case'. Try not to think about it too much and I hope you have a great hatch.

greyartist: Hatching stinks, in my experience. It could be a bad egg but who knows. If you are brave enough to sniff the eggs after the hatch, I've read about eggs exploding in peoples faces. blah!

 

[Jen4]

Newduckie - Too cute

Illia - I'm always so scared I'm gonna drop one when I candle

Good Luck EVERYONE

 

[Kismet]

That snake story is incredible!

I experienced a first yesterday. I came home from work and went to do chores. I have a broody sitting on seven (now six) in the storeroom. She is isolated with food and water and nests in a milk crate. When I went in to check on her, there was a broken blue shell in front of the crate, about a foot away. She was still sitting happy as can be. The shell had an embryo in it about the size of a man's thumbnail. She's due on the 19th. Then, I saw on the other side of the barrier that keeps her in and anything else out (a scrap piece of plywood), she had vacated a lot of runny feces. This is the second time I have seen this - the first time was within her barrier and I thought maybe she had od'd on scratch. Do you think she kicked the egg out of her nest for some reason? And if she did, how did she manage to get it up and over the edge of the milk crate? My new coop (they just moved in at the beginning of March) is fortified like Fort Knox, so I can't believe it was a predator. And if it had been, they would have not stopped at just one. We all know how impossible that is! lol.

Lockdown is tonight for the 77 eggs still in my two incubators. The eggs that I was testing for fertility were all fertile! I have only culled seven out of 84 originally.

 

[newduckie]

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these are geese. My ducks were 4 weeks ago and they are HUGE... the geese are so different from the ducks. The ducks were real skittish and would not let me near them.... the geese are sweeties. they will nibble on my fingers and follow me. I love them. Geese are so social.