first time hatching indian runner ducks (and ducks in general)

[IceHax]

Can we see your brooder set up? What temps are they at? Very sorry.

my brooder setup is a 60x60 cm wooden box with a 250W about 70-80 cm above the ground, temps go from 29 to 33-34 *C

 

[IceHax]

phone is dead at the moment so i cant show ya, but i will asap.

 

[Kiki]

my brooder setup is a 60x60 cm wooden box with a 250W about 70-80 cm above the ground, temps go from 29 to 33-34 *C

Is this s box large enough so that you aren't heating the whole thing?


I find, with quail, that if I have to help them out they die anyways.
I no longer help quail.

 

[kook8]

not sure, but i guess it all started with that one duckling who was not using one leg (???) one thing i noticed though is the ones that died were the ones that needed to be pulled out of the egg by me.

I seem to rember a post talking about the hatch process. Said not to do that under any circumstances cos it prevented something crucial from taking its course... cant remember now what it was. But I had one survive, the other died. Its a lottery.

 

[IceHax]

I seem to rember a post talking about the hatch process. Said not to do that under any circumstances cos it prevented something crucial from taking its course... cant remember now what it was. But I had one survive, the other died. Its a lottery.

Yeah, I helped chickens, geese and quails hatch and all of them survived, guess I've just been lucky. They would have died either way, so at least I am happy I could give them a shot at life

 

[IceHax]

Is this s box large enough so that you aren't heating the whole thing?


I find, with quail, that if I have to help them out they die anyways.
I no longer help quail.

Unfortunately I am heating the whole thing, but I added some boxes they can get into that will provide shade and lower temperatures.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can we see your little ducklings how are they doing?

 

[IceHax]

yeah sorry, i keep forgetting. gimme a minute

 

[IceHax]

Here are some pics of the two babies @Miss Lydia

 

[IceHax]

i tried vent-sexing them, fairly sure the biggest one is a female, the second i'm still unsure lol