Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Colourful]

Love all the pics! I'm so busy these days that when I get the computer, I read about 6 pages at once. I love to see all the photos

Luke: Just a quick suggestion, move the thermometer closer so the temp is about 35 C in the middle of the brooder and adjust your heat accordingly. That way they can escape the heat if they feel the need (over heating will kill just as surely as letting them get cold). Also, the water should be cooler if you do that too (you can keep the water out for the first couple of hours until they are running around like nutters).

I candled some of the eggs I have going, and it looks like I'll be hatching turkey eggs (if my incubator holds up, the sudden changes in temp are making it unhappy). I also have Minorca, Buff Sussex, Speckled Sussex and a couple of Araucana in there (plus my Blue Australorp eggs coming tomorrow, I'm super excited as he didn't have enough of his normal line (which has produced show quality birds) so he threw in some of his exhibition line, go David Morley!)

Ley us know how the hatch goes luke!

 

[satay]

... Green egg? I didn't know they could lay in colour, you learn something new everyday.

KC are awesome, such smart birds. I lost a Khaki Campbell duck about a week ago to the first snake of the season, and it was such a tragedy as she was such a lovely bird.

Yeah not all do but some do. It more blue than an araucana egg but lightish green/blue still. Try to take a picture of one but it kept coming up looking white on the photo.

 

[Sandstorm495]

Easy as.. Food and someone where to swim or at least water deep enough to dunk their faces in.

They'd be messy though!

 

[Colourful]

They'd be messy though!

Lol, ducks are heaps messy no matter what you give them. But they need the deeper water to clean out their bills so they're not drinking mud.

 

[Colourful]

Yeah not all do but some do. It more blue than an araucana egg but lightish green/blue still. Try to take a picture of one but it kept coming up looking white on the photo.

I know the feeling, I had a runner duck egg that looked slightly blue, but no photo could show that. It's like Welsummer hens: Boring in photo, gorgeous in reality where you can see the really fine lacing.

My turkeys pulled a fast one on me, lol. I was all excited to get maybe 2 eggs a week while they were secretly building a nest in a very thorny blackberry bush...

Long story short, I'm covered in scratches and 8 eggs will go into the incubator shortly

I'll let my first hen raise a brood of her own later in the season, when she's fully matured and I have a run set up for her to raise her poults in.

Also, I have 2 new turkey hens YAYS both definite hens (laying) and they are a buff and a bronze. The Buff has a nest in snake land (an area of the properly that's dominated by waste high tussock and lots of blackberry bushes and all the baby bunnies a snake can chock down) but I can't find where it is and I don't want to get bitten by anything by looking for it.

 

[satay]

I know the feeling, I had a runner duck egg that looked slightly blue, but no photo could show that. It's like Welsummer hens: Boring in photo, gorgeous in reality where you can see the really fine lacing. My turkeys pulled a fast one on me, lol. I was all excited to get maybe 2 eggs a week while they were secretly building a nest in a very thorny blackberry bush... Long story short, I'm covered in scratches and 8 eggs will go into the incubator shortly

I'll let my first hen raise a brood of her own later in the season, when she's fully matured and I have a run set up for her to raise her poults in. Also, I have 2 new turkey hens YAYS both definite hens (laying) and they are a buff and a bronze. The Buff has a nest in snake land (an area of the properly that's dominated by waste high tussock and lots of blackberry bushes and all the baby bunnies a snake can chock down) but I can't find where it is and I don't want to get bitten by anything by looking for it.

Congrats on the turkey eggs. Watch them if they decide to nest in the bushes. I lost 2 last year to foxes that way.

 

[CB and CG]

Love all the pics! I'm so busy these days that when I get the computer, I read about 6 pages at once. I love to see all the photos

Luke: Just a quick suggestion, move the thermometer closer so the temp is about 35 C in the middle of the brooder and adjust your heat accordingly. That way they can escape the heat if they feel the need (over heating will kill just as surely as letting them get cold). Also, the water should be cooler if you do that too (you can keep the water out for the first couple of hours until they are running around like nutters).

I candled some of the eggs I have going, and it looks like I'll be hatching turkey eggs (if my incubator holds up, the sudden changes in temp are making it unhappy). I also have Minorca, Buff Sussex, Speckled Sussex and a couple of Araucana in there (plus my Blue Australorp eggs coming tomorrow, I'm super excited as he didn't have enough of his normal line (which has produced show quality birds) so he threw in some of his exhibition line, go David Morley!)

Ley us know how the hatch goes luke!

Hi Colourful,
Can't wait to see some pics of your blue babies when they hatch. Mine are due on the 7th of September. So excited!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Luke: Just a quick suggestion, move the thermometer closer so the temp is about 35 C in the middle of the brooder and adjust your heat accordingly. That way they can escape the heat if they feel the need (over heating will kill just as surely as letting them get cold). Also, the water should be cooler if you do that too (you can keep the water out for the first couple of hours until they are running around like nutters).

Thanks Colourful, I have got it all set up.
In the middle of the brooder is 35, closer is 40 and then they can escape behind the feeder to a nice 30. It's amazing at how even in a small brooder I can get so many different temps.
I have planned to put an ice cube surrounded by frozen marbles so that the water should stay nice and cool.

Ley us know how the hatch goes luke!

Love the ducks Satay...but what about those Runners?
Nice hatch Rexy, chicks are great.

No eggs yet....

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[satay]

oh Sorry Luke thought i had posted pics of them before. Will try to get some today for you.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

ok, I had messed up all my dates ( that's a first satay

) and the chicks are due to hatch today...hopefully.

Now, I have read in all the booklets and no where does it say to remove the egg rails for hatching but it just seems a bit of a hazard for the chicks. Do I remove them or not?