Call ducks hatching!!!! Picture Added!

[fancbrd4me02]

I checked under my broody chicken and I have at least 4 pips!!!!!! I am so excited I can't wait to see the little guys!!!!BTW, broody hens are the best, aren't they?

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Congrats. Have you been misting the eggs, or doing something to keep the humidity higher under the hen. I tried incubating call eggs with a broody hen last year, and had every duckling die from being shrink wrapped in the egg.

 

[afeatherfan]

Well I couldnt help my self and got some call duck mixed eggs off ebay.Ill set mine in the morning under my blue cochin hen. She or he sent me 16 I think my cochen can handle them she is a big ol girl. I hope they hatch .

 

[afeatherfan]

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I never thought of that but I will defiantly do that. Thanks

 

[La Roux]

How many times do you spray your eggs?

 

[Scott]

Congrats!

Personally, I trust my cochins more than an incubator for hatching call duck eggs. However, I do have 9 in the incubator right now. All 9 of them are developing... due to hatch on April 4th. I've got 12-14 more call duck eggs waiting to go in the incubator. And I just set 5 call duck eggs from a different line under a broody cochin.

Plus I have a dozen white call duck eggs from show quality lines on the way from Oregon.

 

[duckyfromoz]

Congratulations !!!! Hope all goes well for those little ones and you soon have some runnning around happy and healthy.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

Update: I checked on the pipped eggs, and they are zipping! I don't have time to count with an angry broody biting me, but I think at least 6 of 9 showed pips!

I didn't mist. I thought about it, but decided I would see what happend if I left it to the hen. So far, she has done her job well. I use gamebird/americauna/???? mix wild chickens (long story) as broodies and they are fantastic mothers! Scott, I saw some of your posts advocating broody hens for call duck eggs, and that's why I used a broody.

 

[Scott]

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Glad to hear you had success with a broody chicken hen. I know a lot of waterfowl breeders use them. In my opinion, they are the most reliable incubator to be found. Particularly for those who are relatively new to waterfowl and artificial incubation.

 

[lovesduckies]

YAY!!!!!!!! congratuations!!

i'm glad they are hatching for you! i've read from several people that calls are hard!! i'm glad your hen is such a wonderful incubator!! are you going to take them away or let her raise them for you?