Call Ducks Finally Hatched

Horror of horrors, thought that concreting the bottom of my fence would cure the problem, woke up this morning when I fed the horses and ducks at 5:30 am 3 dead ducks in my pen, looks to be punctured on their face, went to work and came home on my lunch break and all is well, disposed of the bodies, got home from work at 8pm (yes i work long hours) and another dead duck and a missing duck, so i was out there by myself in the dark and holding a flashlight in my teeth catching my remaining ducks and throwing them inside the chicken coop door with them trying to get back outside, finally got them all inside the safe pen and in shock, have had this pen for a year with no problem and then all of a sudden all this predator activity in the past 2 weeks. Going to lock my Patterdale terrier rat killer inside the outside pen tonight and the next several nights, whatever it is; in for a rude awakening when they meet the terrier from hell. Additionally, will keep the ducks locked inside the building until I can get get some smaller diameter fencing. Not sure what the predator was to kill several and leave them laying inside the pen and then finally take one away. No evidence that anything was eaten on the killed birds, just some puncture marks on their heads. It seems like i just made it angry by concreting the bottom, so it couldn't easily drag one under the fence, so it went on a killing spree.
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OH MY GOD that's HORRIBLE, were you able to track down the KILLER. OMG, What a horrible thing to wake up to see.
 
OH CRAP, is that what you meant by the Boogy man?? OMG, I thought you were cracking a joke. NOW I feel terrible. I TOTALLY MISS READ THAT POST.

SOOOO SOOOO SOORRY..
 
For hatchers who may receive notices here - there's someone doing a first time duckling hatch and they need some help and guidance. A duckling started pipping (is that the right word?), but there are eggs of different levels of development in the incubator … I gave the link to the hatching guide, but we may need some direct assistance here.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1051424/hatching-khaki-campbells#post_16087417
 
After two ducks mate, how long can the male's contribution live inside the female? Lol, I'm asking because I'm getting Call eggs and their was a male Pekin living with the Call ducks. He's since been moved Wednesday of this week. If he had mated the Calls, he should be long out their system by now right?

Since the Pekin has been moved (4 days ago) the first egg was layed today. It should be 100% Call? I only want pure bred Call. So if there is any chance, I don't want to take it. I only want Call.

Not the very first egg ever but the first since the Pekin has been moved. Now there's only three Calls in the duck pen - the male and the two females, that have been together from the very start. And, the females have been laying eggs for months and months now.
 
After two ducks mate, how long can the male's contribution live inside the female? Lol, I'm asking because I'm getting Call eggs and their was a male Pekin living with the Call ducks. He's since been moved Wednesday of this week. If he had mated the Calls, he should be long out their system by now right?

Since the Pekin has been moved (4 days ago) the first egg was layed today. It should be 100% Call? I only want pure bred Call. So if there is any chance, I don't want to take it. I only want Call.

Not the very first egg ever but the first since the Pekin has been moved. Now there's only three Calls in the duck pen - the male and the two females, that have been together from the very start. And, the females have been laying eggs for months and months now.


I think it's around 18 days, but I'm not for sure on that one. Might want to wait a couple weeks. I sure hope that big pekin wasn't mating those little calls, lol, but I'm sure the babies would be cute. I'm a huge mutt- duck fan ;)
 
These three ducklings are a friend's of mine. She has three Calls (two Grey females and a Snowy male) as well as a female Mallard and a male Pekin too. The first two pictures are of the babies at about 3 days old and the last picture is of the babies taken on November 14th. Do they look like they are full bred Call?

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the one with the mallard pattern seems to look the most pure. the yellow babies should be more of a goldish look if they were the snowy color or at least both of mine were so idk what to tell u they sure are cute though.
 
the one with the mallard pattern seems to look the most pure. the yellow babies should be more of a goldish look if they were the snowy color or at least both of mine were so idk what to tell u they sure are  cute though. 



They're not Snowy, they're White. The parents have White in their bloodline. I'm just going to wait though. I don't want to run the risk of their being any Pekin mixed in. I only want Call for my little Winter, as she's only Call <3
 

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