Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[Julie Birb]

Guess who hatched some babies

Wow Lacrystol. Awesome. They are so cute. Can you hold them now? I just love their round little heads.

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Wow Lacrystol. Awesome. They are so cute. Can you hold them now? I just love their round little heads.

I just realized the blue fawn in the third pic looks exactly like a duckling I lost when I was in Ohio last weekend. Coincidence? I think not, but she'd have to send it to me so I can see it in person to be sure.

 

[Lacrystol]

Just out of curiosity, is there such a
thing as making a safe hole too soon?

Yes but it shouldn't affect them as long as they hole is small and not enough to shrink there membrane

 

[Lacrystol]

Idk, I worry more about not making one soon enough... but so far all the eggs I've hatched have been shipped... sometimes hard to see it pipped internally with saddle shaped air cells... lost a couple that way... but my last one was tapping on the shell like crazy, lol...

If you give them ONE day after there due date, then it's not a crazy idea to make one.

 

[Lacrystol]

See that's what I was thinking also. I just made safe holes for 7 of my 11 eggs in lockdown. They had already internally pipped but they aren't due until Wednesday. I hope they're here by around this time tomorrow.

Understand, when they internally pipped, they have about 20% air in that shell before they run out, the estimated time is about 24 hours. So if they internally pipped give them at least 24 hours before making the safe hole, if you do it to soon, the only risk to it is drying them out..

 

[JadeComputerGal]

If you give them ONE day after there due date, then it's not a crazy idea to make one.

Right, what Lacrystol said. I never make one until day 26 unless they internally pip before day 25. Once there's a hole in the shell, the inner membrane will dry out much more quickly, so that can make it impossible for the peepling to break through that membrane if they haven't already done it.

 

[Lacrystol]

They are so cute!! What colors are they??

They all came from my two girls, you see they were first time mommies and they had quit on me, they only had one week left. GRRR. The crazy thing is I forgot to lock them down. AHHHHHH but with my humidity being soo high in my room, we didn't have a hatching issue at all.; LOL so everything worked out.

The Lighter colors came from my snowy, she had a total of 6 eggs if I recall and only two were good, the rest I had to throw out, they just got rotten.

Now the Dark group came from my Bibbed, she did much better, she had 8 eggs and I only had to throw one out because it went bad. What's odd, is her kids some look like greys and yet she's a bibbed and her mate is a bibbed..??? how does that work? She actually had TWO male Bibbed right by her side....

So How did are the kids GREY, is a HUGE mystery, Perhaps MINIHORSE can help me with that one??????? I would think they all would be Bibbed and out of the 7 Only Two are bibbed...

 

[Lacrystol]

Send them to me! Send them to me!

OK, but you'll have to come get them, Shipping calls is to risky. So when can I exspect you????


TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK, I"M WAITING????? LOL

 

[Lacrystol]

They are so cute!! What colors are they??

Did you see the BLACK spot on the tip of my WHITE ONE. hahahahahhaha

 

[Lacrystol]

Congratulations nice hatch!

It's been a while but I can't take all the credit, LOL, I could never get this far with the humidity in my room right now. GRRR I had planned on only hatching during the winter months because of it..