Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[Mickey Lou 04]

Now on a more serious note, I have a method that I use to hatch call ducks, I would be more than happy to pm you, it's not a guarantee but it does seem to work well, I have hatched out 52 myself and have help many many many others. In fact I gave my method to someone who ordered eggs from me on ebay just recently and she's doing my method to the tee and just emailed me today that she can see progress, so I'm really excited for her.

I'm experimenting right now on a new lazy method, lol, and so far on day 7 progress is good, will see what happens on hatching day.

So if your interested let me know. I should really post this method on my website. Lol can't tell you how many people have asked for it, wonder if I can charge them. Hahahahaha NOT, I couldn't do that...

It's more like "ask and you shall receive". Lol

I heard whites were harder to hatch in an article in the APA stuff I got as a junior APA member.

If you could PM me those instructions I would appreciate it. And when I get my eggs I might ask some more questions.

Thanks,
Mickey Lou 04

 

[Starkasm]

Stalkers of hatching eggs. BWAH HA HA HA. lol

 

[Lacrystol]

I heard whites were harder to hatch in an article in the APA stuff I got as a junior APA member.

If you could PM me those instructions I would appreciate it. And when I get my eggs I might ask some more questions.

Thanks,
Mickey Lou 04

That really doesnt make sense to me. I mean thinking about it, why would a color make it more challenging? The white color is the ducks pigment, how could that possible make it more difficult to get out of a shell? Maybe if it said something to the affect, they have a much weaker system because they are more domesticated versus a wild duck. But I have never heard anything like that either. LOL

I actually collected eggs from my chocolate call duck, her mate a Mallard, Only expecting chocolate, I actually hatched out a white duck with brown spots all over him. He had the opposite colors of his mommy. LOL. so funny.

 

[clousert]

That really doesnt make sense to me. I mean thinking about it, why would a color make it more challenging?  The white color is the ducks pigment, how could that possible make it more difficult to get out of a shell?  Maybe if it said something to the affect, they have a much weaker system because they are more domesticated versus a wild duck.  But I have never heard anything like that either.  LOL

I actually collected eggs from my chocolate call duck, her mate a Mallard, Only expecting chocolate, I actually hatched out a white duck with brown spots all over him. He had the opposite colors of his mommy.  LOL. so funny.

I too have heard that the whites can be harder to hatch, but it had nothing to do with color. It was more making reference to the fact that the whites have been worked with more, thus making them better bred to standard then other colors, meaning shorter necks and bills.... in turn making them harder to hatch. Maybe that's what Mickey Lou was reading also.

 

[Lacrystol]

I too have heard that the whites can be harder to hatch, but it had nothing to do with color. It was more making reference to the fact that the whites have been worked with more, thus making them better bred to standard then other colors, meaning shorter necks and bills.... in turn making them harder to hatch. Maybe that's what Mickey Lou was reading also.

Well now that would make more sense to me.. So it's more on the in breeding of the whites rather then the actually white colored. Lol

Yeh I can see that..

 

[clousert]

Well now that would make more sense to me.. So it's more on the in breeding of the whites rather then the actually white colored. Lol

Yeh I can see that..

That's the way I understood it while doing my research on calls when I decided that I wanted to add them to the family . With the greys following in a close 2nd.

 

[Lacrystol]

Alright girls now I have a problem perhaps you can help solve. Each night I put my call ducks in the coop, during the day they free range, well once they are in there I do a head count, each night I should have 24 but I don't, lately it's been 23.. Now here's the problem, right before it gets dark or the sun goes down the 24th call duck disappears, could not tell you where she is going, some where in the tall grass.

Each morning, she is by the coop screaming her little head off at the other call ducks that are locked up. Now I've tried to talk to her but she is soooo unreasonable to deal with, I tried to work out a game plan with her and explained to her you are not safe being free ranged at night because of the raccoons and foxes that come around SHE WONT LISTEN. she's exactly like my husband, lol and the mastiff, and my iPad.. Dumb..

Well not quite she's pretty smart for hiding...


Now I know she's not hiding with a nest, to late for them.. So she's not sitting on eggs. Plus she's to young yet to lay eggs, so I'm puzzled at what to do. I don't like her out late at night. Gosh I sound like an over protective parent, lol... I want you home by 7:00. Lol...

She has a blast early in the morning swimming in the pool with no boys to bother her, but surely torments the crap out of them with her yelling up a storm, while taken her morning swim.. Grrr she worries me knowing she is outside all alone and we have tons of woods all around us..

What do u suppose I should do not worry and let her go or try to capture her and put her in jail for a couple of days to teach her a lesson. Lol

 

[Lacrystol]

That's the way I understood it while doing my research on calls when I decided that I wanted to add them to the family . With the greys following in a close 2nd.

Personally I think all calls are a challenge, doesn't matter what color. They were bred to be small and to call in the bigger ducks, so having something with everything being small is definitely going to be a problem.. We just need to learn how to over come the challenge..

It took me oh my goodness tons of eggs and I mean a lot, before I got it down.. I have tried so many different ways and ending up with failures.. but I was determine to not let these little buggers get the best of me so I kept trying and trying, I believe I got there ticket now. Lol

So what do I do? Now I'm challenging them by trying different ways to hatch.. Lol. I'm just never satisfied am I? Lol

 

[Starkasm]

I vote jail! They're so tiny, anything could get them!

We had a turkey doing that for the longest time but come to find out that was her "time" to go off and lay her egg. Then she tried to set... We don't have a Tom so kinda pointless for her :/

Are you positive she isn't laying? Maybe she's an odd ball and her cycle came sooner than you thought it would. I can't imagine why she would stray from the flock otherwise, especially at night.
OR maybe there's a handsome wild Mallard in those bushes

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[Mickey Lou 04]

OR maybe there's a handsome wild Mallard in those bushes

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LOL!

I meant the small necks and beaks on whwites I didn't mean the white color. Sorry I should have specified. What variety do you raise Lacrystol?