EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[dan26552]

No butterfingers?

Not yet.

Got s total of 16 chicks out of the 24 eggs that were originally in the bator. And out of those 24 eggs, 16 were fertile, so all the eggs that were fertile hatched!

The 2 huge tan colored chicks are a cross between a BCM/Buff Orpington dad and a RIR mom

And the rest have an EE/Cuckoo Marans dad and moms that are either blue copper marans, black copper marans, EE, cuckoo marans, RIR, or welsummer

That's awesome!!!!! I hope all my fertile duck eggs hatch.

 

[deserteggs22]

I have a blue Ameraucana pair if you want a few eggs once she is laying.

Thanks, but I'm lookin for Lavender Ameraucanas, not blue. But thank you!

 

[campingshaws]

I lost another duck. This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?

Spoiler: Warning: Dead Lefty

No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

 

[kwhites634]

I lost another duck.

This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?


No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

I'm so sorry. Daylight or dark?

 

[campingshaws]

I lost another duck. This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?

Spoiler: Warning: Dead Lefty

No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

I'm so sorry. Daylight or dark?

Hard to say. It was after dark before I got over there. It rained all morning until about 2. Maybe evening, as that would've been a lot of eating for just the hour after dark.

 

[BantyChooks]

I lost another duck. This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?

Spoiler: Warning: Dead Lefty

No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

So sorry bestie
You're having a bad week of it

 

[campingshaws]

I lost another duck. This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?

Spoiler: Warning: Dead Lefty

No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

So sorry bestie
You're having a bad week of it

Thanks. I was tempted to grab the shotgun and camp out waiting, but it's damp and I'm hurting too bad. I'm the worst duck mom. They were too spooked to catch, so they're still out. Whoever survives is going into the house for a week while I set traps.

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks. I was tempted to grab the shotgun and camp out waiting, but it's damp and I'm hurting too bad. I'm the worst duck mom. They were too spooked to catch, so they're still out. Whoever survives is going into the house for a week while I set traps.

Not your fault!! You're an awesome duck momma
I hope they're all ok....

 

[kwhites634]

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I'm so sorry. Daylight or dark?

Hard to say. It was after dark before I got over there. It rained all morning until about 2. Maybe evening, as that would've been a lot of eating for just the hour after dark.
I think you can rule out a hawk. I spooked a hawk off the carcass of one of my pullets a few weeks ago. The only visible damage was the neck being stripped of all flesh. I'd think a fox would've carried it off; same with a coyote. What's your suspicion?

 

[campingshaws]

I lost another duck. This time there was a body. I used the remains to bait the live trap. I have my suspicions... Who wants to play csi again?

Spoiler: Warning: Dead Lefty

No blood. Spine and leg picked clean. No flies or ants.

I'm so sorry. Daylight or dark?

Hard to say. It was after dark before I got over there. It rained all morning until about 2. Maybe evening, as that would've been a lot of eating for just the hour after dark.

I think you can rule out a hawk. I spooked a hawk off the carcass of one of my pullets a few weeks ago. The only visible damage was the neck being stripped of all flesh. I'd think a fox would've carried it off; same with a coyote. What's your suspicion?

That trail of feathers down to the water makes me think raccoon. Young one, maybe. I don't know if a big one would pick the bones clean like that. Maybe a mama with babies? Hope it shows up in the trap tonight.