Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[casportpony]

Quote: Way too much practice due to the problems I have here with blackhead (histomoniasis) and my turkeys and peafowl. Each year the poults and peachicks that I don't sell almost always end up with blackhead and need to be tubed and medicated. For at least five days.

-Kathy

 

[WVduckchick]

Way too much practice due to the problems I have here with blackhead (histomoniasis) and my turkeys and peafowl. Each year the poults and peachicks that I don't sell almost always end up with blackhead and need to be tubed and medicated. For at least five days.

-Kathy

I suppose you sell them before they have a chance to get it?
Look at the bright side, you can help newbies like me if I ever need to tube one!

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I brood them indoors and off the ground. Tubing adults is easy, so easy that once you learn you can do it with your eyes closed, but babies are different. Of course I am always willing to help anyone that want to learn, but babies can be tricky, especially if they're sick.

This is what I use to tube my little ones:







-Kathy

 

[buff goose guy]

Quote: only one is a mallard the other 2 are from top show qulaity grey calls
and the mallard is a flying mallard technically one of my females hatched it but alot of wild mallards lay in there nests, and my mallard are from wild mallards that layed on my property about 10 years ago and every year wild mallard just tend to pair with mine so yeah

 

[duckmeister]

Doing a double take on the photo, i see the 2 call ducks and their short little bills. I have 2 flying mallard ducklings in with my ducklings too, and their long bill is what really sets them apart from the call ducklings.

 

[buff goose guy]

lol yeah the call ducks are about to go into the aviary and the mallard into the nursery pen before free ranging

 

[duckmeister]

My 2 flying type mallards from Metzer farms with my call ducking this a.m. They are all about the same age within 2 or 3 days, they'r 5 weeks old. The mallards a bit larger than the others with the bill a lot longer.

These are my first white call ducks from my generic white call hens and my show and breeder quality Holderread's drakes. The reason i did this was because my hens lay eggs like crazy, lots of them, and the teenie tiny elite show quality hens lay very few eggs and the teenie tiny eggs they lay are very difficult to hatch. I'll keep breeding the Holderread's drakes back to their daughter from my hens and hopefully produce a few quality birds to show.

Also have 20 call eggs in the incubator from Duckcreekpoultryplace in Indiana, so hopefully enough of them will hatch to have some genetic diversity in my little flock.

 

[buff goose guy]

well they are sooo cute

 

[Julie Birb]

Doing a double take on the photo, i see the 2 call ducks and their short little bills. I have 2 flying mallard ducklings in with my ducklings too, and their long bill is what really sets them apart from the call ducklings.

Weeeeeee, short little bills…..

 

[Julie Birb]

I brood them indoors and off the ground. Tubing adults is easy, so easy that once you learn you can do it with your eyes closed, but babies are different. Of course I am always willing to help anyone that want to learn, but babies can be tricky, especially if they're sick.

This is what I use to tube my little ones:







-Kathy

Wow, amazing Kathy. I have a weird question to ask out of curiosity. Do the birds gag when you place the tube in their throats? How far down does it go?