Bantam Duck Page

[CelticOaksFarm]

Linda,

I am so sad, you won't share those cuties with me?

Here younhad me

over them and thinking of where I could house them, and now the heart ache. LoL

So glad you were able to make the trip to pick them up. Now rest that arm of yours!

Shellie

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

you get your incubator or broody chicken ready and if you want to swap some of those GORGEOUS goose eggs for some GORGEOUS call eggs, you let me know and we will do some egg collecting, shipping and swapping, I love hatching like Betty Crocker loves baking.

OH, OH, OH also, I am in negotiations

(hubby don't know yet)

on purchasing 2 trio of butterscotch from a guy from states at the top of the map

don't ask me I forget where he is

but trying to get my funds that I have tied up with bad sellers straight with pay pal and them scamming folks, to invest in this purchase, I HATE SCAMMERS, there is just to many CON'S now days, and no matter how good you think you know somebody and I am a good judge of character usually, but a person still never knows untill they pay for something and can't get there ducks, or eggs, etc., and have to battle out bad business hashings over a deal

just makes me RED, RED, RED okay got to get out here and doing my morning rounds from the bad, bad 4 hour storm we had late last night, later

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

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Well my first call duck hatch was a huge A+ with 20 out of 22 hatching! I would love to do some swapping with you with eggs. Keep me posted on ducklings too when those Mandarins are ready to go, incase I "need" to add a few to the box lol. Good luck on the new butterscotch calls. I have whites and grey, think I want pied, and pastel, the mini apple are cute too. Never have enough ducks, or geese. Hubby has said if it makes me happy and it's pretty or cute he doesn't object. LoL he is in trouble.

 

[missy5]

Hello again. I am real concerned with the ducklings. I just put them in the brooder and they are very perky and wide eyed but they keep falling over on thier backs and can't get up. I keep giving them a little help to turn over, but i can't stand there all day. Now i wasn't there all night watching them so i don't know if that was going on all night and they just got turned over on thier own but i worried about them. I thought of leaving them to see if they can get up on thier own but i can't stand seeing them strugle. Can they die if they can't turn over? I have been giving them some sugar water like i was told so i don't know what else to do. CAN someone tell me whats going on??? I was asking a page back on pg 66 if anyone knew what my call ducklings colours are. The mom and dad have orange feet and mom has an orange bill with black spots and dad has green bill with black spots. The ducklings have black or brown legs and feet and thier bills are mostly black. Now if mom is a snowy and dad is a butterscotch cross how did i get black footed ducklings?
Here are a couple of new pics of the ducklings. I think you can see the colours ok.

This is how he falls over on his back.

Does anyone know what colour these ducklings will be or is it too early?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Can't help with colorings, but I had a tiny white call duck who did that for about the first 36 hours after hatching. Doing fine now and runs with everyone else in the grass during the day.

 

[missy5]

Well my little guys didn't make it. I'm soooo upset. They were so lively and then they kept falling on thier backs, i knew something was wrong. It just hurts after you get so excited, but i have more of them in the bator, i hope it works out better with the next ones.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

I like about another week telling the spring minature appleyards sexing to pair them up then I will post them on our website for sale. So about a week they will be available going to sell 2 pair possible 3 all in what they are.

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Well my first call duck hatch was a huge A+ with 20 out of 22 hatching! I would love to do some swapping with you with eggs. Keep me posted on ducklings too when those Mandarins are ready to go, incase I "need" to add a few to the box lol. Good luck on the new butterscotch calls. I have whites and grey, think I want pied, and pastel, the mini apple are cute too. Never have enough ducks, or geese. Hubby has said if it makes me happy and it's pretty or cute he doesn't object. LoL he is in trouble.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

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Sorry Missy5 I know how your feeling, I have lost so many tears with every little love I have lost in 3 yrs, and just get in to a depression with it, but you will have a better time with your next ones putting prayers in the prayer box just for you

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Ready here is the babies that hatched today, man I am kicking butt, thank you sweet jesus, and thank all my BYC friends, KICKING STRAIGHT BUTT!! Yep, Yep Black East Indie there is 4 more from this hatch still hatching, OH, OH, and the guinea eggs are in the hatcher there is about 35 of them and they are popping out like popcorn, LOL, the next BEI set of 14 eggs are due between Monday and Thurs coming week, then there is 13 more set this week, WOOO HOOO I AM KICKING BUTT THIS YEAR!!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I will go take pictures of my fluffy butts today cause I need to know how to sex them! I know there is info online, but is their other ways with calls besides vent sexing or waiting for them to feather?