Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[Ravynscroft]

OMG. They grew up so fast I love how dark the blue pied is. The pastel is pretty too. Any ideas on sexes yet?

Yep, growing fast and outside now!!! lol

I am clueless unless they are all girls... all of them are VERY vocal, especially the pastel, lol...
Thank you so much for them, Tammy, they are so sweet and amazing!

 

[clousert]

oh good Thanks! The hatchery where I Bought my ducks from said to feed them that. Oh yea, you do need to drop mandarin chicks to get them to start eating. Weird but true.

I know. Think we talked about that last year lol. The breeder I got mine from told me that. Lost my male last year though so just have the hen in with my calls. Next year will be a new beginning for me though and I'm already dying to get it started lol.

 

[clousert]

Yep, growing fast and outside now!!! lol

I am clueless unless they are all girls... all of them are VERY vocal, especially the pastel, lol...
Thank you so much for them, Tammy, they are so sweet and amazing!

You're very welcome. Glad you're happy with them. They very well may be all girls. The boys chatter but they don't have that loud fast quack quack quack quack that the girls do.

 

[Lacrystol]

Until the extra calcium builds up in their livers over time because they're not using it and not able to digest it so then they die.  But hey.... you guys keep doing whatever suits you.  There's a reason why it's called "Layer"

Well I've been doing this since I have had ducks and haven't lost one to it yet.

 

[Lacrystol]

Until the extra calcium builds up in their livers over time because they're not using it and not able to digest it so then they die.  But hey.... you guys keep doing whatever suits you.  There's a reason why it's called "Layer"

FYI all the ones I hatched out last year guess what??? Doing fine as well as my oldest black call who's now three years.

 

[Ravynscroft]

You're very welcome. Glad you're happy with them. They very well may be all girls. The boys chatter but they don't have that loud fast quack quack quack quack that the girls do.

They still have the raspy baby quack, but they all sound the same and do the quack quack quacks... could be wrong, idk... we'll see!

 

[Lacrystol]

Corrrect, birds not laying should not be fed a layer feed.

-Kathy

Well then tell me exactly when should I exspect death because as long as I have been doing this I haven't lost any to cacium build up? Just wondering??

 

[Lacrystol]

Let me add that I read somewhere that non-laying birds should not be fed something with more than 3% calcium as it can cause gout.

-Kathy

Hum gout having seen that either. Just saying!!

 

[Lacrystol]

Hi, everyone! Figured I'd post here since I hatched a few beautiful babies from @clousert

Baby pics...

And now...

And I have a few more eggs in the bator from minihorse927, lol...

Good job wooo hooo

 

[Lacrystol]

Ok well I guess I can end this mystery calcium death thing. According to what I have been feeding my ducks and I was feeding them all flock until they quit selling it at my feed store a while back. So I had to switch to all natural layer crumble. But and hoot the calcuim count lol is only. 0.04%. So I guess that explains a lot!