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Dianne1928 said:
This came from magpie. That is close to what you sould want!
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Yep. I have 1 with a few black spots and so does peach. I will be breeding mine to my magpie in hopes to get a few with a few more spots and a few magpies with a little less color.
 
clousert said:
I know he's not a call duck but I'm a proud momma so just have to share. I've never shown any of my birds but have always picked the ones that I thought were best for breeding. I have always thought that mine were beautiful and wondered how they'd do in a show. One of the girls that bought one of my splash cochin bantam babies last fall showed him in her 4H group. I kept his brother for breeding this year :)

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Wo hoo!!! You did good!!! :thumbsup
 
clousert said:
Lol. The best thing about it is that I'm almost done with my flock and can now enjoy hatching my own eggs without having to buy & ship them :) Still have a couple more to add though... mille cochins ;) wheaten ameraucanas and maybe another serama or 2 :) And I don't have to buy eggs to eat anymore either :) I have 4 blue egg layers, 2 green egg layers, 6 white egg layers, 5 tinted egg layers and 7 brown egg layers. Plus all the banties. I haven't been able to eat the bantie's eggs. They all go into the incubator. They're just too cute to eat. The 6 white layers are my polish and I haven't eaten any of them yet either because I have people who want chicks. So they're all being incubated right now too :) My first test egg hatched today :)

My calls quit laying a couple weeks ago but I have 1 in the incubator due to hatch this coming weekend and 1 in 3 weeks. The 2nd one I got from someone else. I got 7 eggs but only 1 is developing. This will be the 3rd egg from my own calls. As you know, the 1st two didn't make it. This 1 I will be helping as soon as it starts zipping :)
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If you help the call, be very carefull for the blood vesils at the bottom of the shell. In my experience, even
though the yolk is absorbed these can stick to the shell and pull the yolk back out. A second pair of hands and small sissors are good at detaching these. Just pick a spot not actually attached to the chick. If you get a bleed, hold the vein with pressure untill it is closed off. About 2 minutes. You are going to do it this time! Just have patience, but don't wait untill it is too late. And don't get nervous, just stay calm. Easy does it from one step to the other. AND call Lori. :old
She is like my dad. Shek knows everything. About ducks anyway.
 
clousert said:
I know he's not a call duck but I'm a proud momma so just have to share. I've never shown any of my birds but have always picked the ones that I thought were best for breeding. I have always thought that mine were beautiful and wondered how they'd do in a show. One of the girls that bought one of my splash cochin bantam babies last fall showed him in her 4H group. I kept his brother for breeding this year :)

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That's a splash Cochin?? I have splash Cochins but mine don't have any dark feathering around the neck??
 
Dianne1928 said:
If you help the call, be very carefull for the blood vesils at the bottom of the shell. In my experience, even
though the yolk is absorbed these can stick to the shell and pull the yolk back out. A second pair of hands and small sissors are good at detaching these. Just pick a spot not actually attached to the chick. If you get a bleed, hold the vein with pressure untill it is closed off. About 2 minutes. You are going to do it this time! Just have patience, but don't wait untill it is too late. And don't get nervous, just stay calm. Easy does it from one step to the other. AND call Lori. :old
She is like my dad. Shek knows everything. About ducks anyway.
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Not everything, lol. I guess you can say I have been around the block a few times, there nothing I haven't see so far..
 
I found a Mille egg tonight so I threw it in the bator, I want to make sure they are fertiled before I start collect any more. Since they have been locked up in there coops, the boys haven't been using there love tools very good. You would think they have this mastered down but the last hatching didn't go well..
 
Dianne1928 said:
If you help the call, be very carefull for the blood vesils at the bottom of the shell. In my experience, even
though the yolk is absorbed these can stick to the shell and pull the yolk back out. A second pair of hands and small sissors are good at detaching these. Just pick a spot not actually attached to the chick. If you get a bleed, hold the vein with pressure untill it is closed off. About 2 minutes. You are going to do it this time! Just have patience, but don't wait untill it is too late. And don't get nervous, just stay calm. Easy does it from one step to the other. AND call Lori. :old
She is like my dad. Shek knows everything. About ducks anyway.
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Thanks Dianne. She helped me with my first batch last year that were all sticky and stuck in their shells. The next batch was the same way and I had to help all of them out too. I just never expected to have to help one that had already pipped and was zipping on its own. I've lost 2 now though that have quit in the middle of zipping so this next one will be helped to get out.
 

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