Ended Halloween Hatch-A-Long 2018

[N F C]

@Farmer Connie I really wanted to hatch some Call duck eggs for this HAL, but decided against it. Well it appears that my eldest duck hen may do it for me. So far she has 7 eggs, but she isn’t sitting full time yet. She is still collecting. I hope to add those to my list soon.
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For those that don’t have broody duck hens, they don’t start sitting right away like chicken hens do. They collect eggs and sit on them off and on, throughout the days, to keep them all on the same schedule. Once they commit to overnight sitting, that’s when they are serious! (*at least in my experience*)

Size-wise, how do call duck eggs compare to a DP chicken egg WV?

 

[WVduckchick]

Size-wise, how do call duck eggs compare to a DP chicken egg WV?

Took a pic for you.

1. From one of my small silkied seramas - 20 grams
2. A larger serama hen - 34 grams
3. Bantam cochin about average size for them - 42 grams
4. Call duck - 52 grams. My ducks are probably a tad larger than higher quality calls.
5. Cream legbars - top egg I got today is much larger than they usually lay 61 grams (maybe double yolk?), below it 48 grams, is more what I usually get from them, although they are still young layers.
6. Black Copper Marans - 65 grams

 

[pennyJo1960]

So need to figure out who is laying an almost white egg???? thought it was my legbar but do not ????????????

 

[pennyJo1960]

day 3....finally got incubator locked in at 99.5/32% humidity! wondering if I should candle or be patient and wait until day 7. read a blog attached to previous byc thread that finally gave me a better understanding of humidity!!

as much as it kills you the less you open tghe better it will come out

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I had 3 of 4 babies hatch hatch today. 2 showgirls and 1 silkie. The one that hatched a week or so ago was a failure to thrive and didn't make it.

 

[N F C]

Took a pic for you.

1. From one of my small silkied seramas - 20 grams
2. A larger serama hen - 34 grams
3. Bantam cochin about average size for them - 42 grams
4. Call duck - 52 grams. My ducks are probably a tad larger than higher quality calls.
5. Cream legbars - top egg I got today is much larger than they usually lay 61 grams (maybe double yolk?), below it 48 grams, is more what I usually get from them, although they are still young layers.
6. Black Copper Marans - 65 grams

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Awesome comparison picture WV! Thanks

 

[N F C]

I had 3 of 4 babies hatch hatch today. 2 showgirls and 1 silkie. The one that hatched a week or so ago was a failure to thrive and didn't make it.

Sorry to hear you lost one. Do you have a photo of the 3 you got today?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Sorry to hear you lost one. Do you have a photo of the 3 you got today?

I'll get one tomorrow when all 3 are in the brooder. One is still drying off in the Bator right now.

 

[WVduckchick]

I'll get one tomorrow when all 3 are in the brooder. One is still drying off in the Bator right now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

looked in on Silky guess the one we call Dirt must have moved off as Mud had all 8 hiding under her