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[linda_zeagler31002]

darn it that is too long

what is my poor drake going to do???? I have a extra white call hen, hatched 3 hens, you recand what the outcome would be?? I got to many hens, I don't know why I hatch all hens, you know out of a turner of Barred Rocks I had one rooster, and a turner of Black australop and Jersey Giants I had 2 roosters, and out of the 4 turkey eggs of my own eggs all where hens, but now that I aquired this blue magpie drake he needs a wife and prefer a hen

 

[duckluck]

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Hatching too many hens is never a problem for most people! I sure wouldn't complain!

 

[duckluck]

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Without scientific study evidence to back it up, my best guess is because the shell regulates the humidity more perfectly than we can design a machine to do, and keeps the duckling's membranes and yolk from drying out. It also keeps the duckling more contained so that it doesn't scratch its yolk or membranes and damage them...Calls sometimes scratch membranes during hatching, and you can see bruises on the exterior of the egg. The shell protects the duckling from bouncing around too much while it is developing...ducklings in the embryo stage are extremely delicate and can get killed easily by too much jarring. Add to that the cost of petridishes and lab incubators, and who wants to go through all that when we have the incredible, edible egg already there to do the job for us? All we have left to do is get the ducklings out!

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Well I agree on some of that, but with scientific research reading, it does state the reason for the shell is the same reason as our skin to keep harmful bacteria and enviromental dangers away from the developing duckling as does a mothers womb. My other statement to add is a mother's womb knows when the apple is ripe and the birth process is to begain, and that duck should also, but at what point do you get him out, like a C-section, that is the point of loss with this hatching issue and call ducks. I always candle, I see what I think is the little bill pecking at the inside of the large end of the shell and yet when I tap and nick away a hole he has never broken the white thick heavy sheild even from around him, yet it looks so obvious when candling that he has, is the first and second sac that flexable and elasticity that he is actually at the end of the egg in that sac pecking from the inside of that sac that far down in the hollow of the large end of the shell?? Then once I have done cracked him open, now I afraid he can't breath and that sac being that elasticic is going to dry up and smother it to death or constrict and squeeze him to death, so now, I got to candle again and mist to see where his bill is and make another hole with fear of this, so now I have just basically killed another, or if I don't bother that egg, and monitor with candling and go to bed, then get up and he ain't moving no more and dead.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Its (singing) starting to feel alot like spring-ing-ing-ing, oh want the sunshine rays glide down on me, oooohhhh itssss starting to feel like spring-ingi-ng, because all my ducks started quacking and fornicating at 5 a.mmmmm, oh its starting to ffffffeeeeeellll(high note there) a llllllllllllllllooooooooooooootttttttttt like spring, them call ducks are in there pool swimming-ing-ing and they are jumping in and out runninggggg, ohhhhhhh that little drake wants to play, soooooo it must be springggggggg******

 

[easttxchick]

OK genetics/color gurus-can anyone tell me what Gray Pied x Silver Appleyard Call will produce?
I just stuck one in the incubator and have no idea what will come of it-any clues?

 

[duckluck]

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It sounds like you need a brighter candler for one, and if you're going to open an egg and the membrane isn't broken, you have to learn to find where the bill is because that is where you will make your hole...the blood drains out of the membrane's blood vessels there first because of the duckling pecking at it.

A higher intensity candler should help you to know when they have and haven't broken the membrane...it's not an exact science and a few will fool you, but on the whole with some practice you should be able to learn to tell which is which. One key to doing this is not rushing or panicking, and knowing how, when, where and why to make your next move.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

duck luck, don't you need a country deep wood vacation, why don't you just come spend the breeding season with me?? Oh okay, whatever, more excuses. it will be there when your dead and gone,

how about this, do you have a digital camera and or one of those little hand held camera where you can video clips to show me? Tell me what candler to get I will replace my coolight. THank you so much, I had asked in previous post for some one to help us and do a step by step from the beginning process cutting on the incubator, I ain't the only one, but I am tired of being quite to not look stupid, I would rather look stupid and ask so I can hatch these little deivilish ducks

 

[duckluck]

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Well, I have the camera but I don't have the ducklings hatching right now, and to tell the whole process from start to finish would pretty much be a doctoral dissertation, which if I'm going to do that, I might as well be lined up for a degree at an accredited school and get credit for all that writing!

But the egg candler I'd recommend is the Brinsea High Intensity Egg Lume...the cost is up there but well worth it, IMO, and it is bright enough to allow you to candle a lot of eggs quickly as well if you are just scanning them in the early stages for development of blood vessels.

That vacation sounds great, but we'll be in the midst of our own hatching season here shortly, hopefully, if we can ever catch a break with the weather!

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Well get your Microsoft word up and get to typing and tell me what to do

my faith is in your hands now.

so I am putting all my failure on you know who,

if you here of some one with a blue magpie hen I am in desperite need of one, I want to have one to breed with spring,

I am going to have to figure out what to do with my half hodume and half foley drake, two blue magpie drake, and 3 last spring Morey white hens, I hatched, LOL, I got a mess, and short some duckies, and I got my spring Lee Morey (gosh he is such a nice man) and loves to talk, that is right up my alley, LOL, so I am going to have me some great babies, I just feel it with your kind, generous, caring heart to help

I need to get caught up on History since 1865 and Algebra and read on this gene crossing issue, but maybe summer break for 2 wks I can, so I can put this with that and have a positive outcome.