Hands on hatching and help

[Sarkchick]

Question. Do you need to give niacin if you give nutradrench? I offer the nutradrench and plain water. (They love the nutradrench) I also have nutritional yeast in their feed.
Linda

 

[Ravynscroft]

Question. Do you need to give niacin if you give nutradrench? I offer the nutradrench and plain water. (They love the nutradrench) I also have nutritional yeast in their feed.
Linda

If you are putting nutritional yeast in their feed, you don't need to add niacin to the water... it's an either/or on those...

But Nutridrench alone doesn't contain enough niacin to make up for their deficiency... it's great for an all around vitamin supplement, but not for a specific one...

 

[Blooie]

Um, what's shadowing?

 

[Sarkchick]

@RavynFallen Thanks. I may swap from yeast to niacin. Almost out of yeast. Need to order more.
Linda

 

[caesargirl]

  Um, what's shadowing?

The babies are moving around a lot inside the inner membrane that you see the movement inside and it looks like a shadow. Think about wiggling your toes in your socks. You see the movement and the definition, but not the actual toes!! (Unless your toes have pipped through the sock!!!)

 

[Blooie]

The babies are moving around a lot inside the inner membrane that you see the movement inside and it looks like a shadow. Think about wiggling your toes in your socks. You see the movement and the definition, but not the actual toes!! (Unless your toes have pipped through the sock!!!)

Thanks! And now I have a reason not to get rid of my favorite red stripey socks.......they don't have holes in them, my toes are just pipping!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

@RavynFallen Thanks. I may swap from yeast to niacin. Almost out of yeast. Need to order more.
Linda

Very welcome...

 

[quackshack74]

@Blooie

Here it is.

Genius

 

[Ren2014]

Hang in there, Blooie!!

Ren!!!

Hey you! Welcome aboard

And good luck with this hatch!

Thanks. I'm still trying to catch up, lol. Good to see you are here

I like her too...lol

Are you doing muscovy eggs again?

Whoops, thought I mentioned that, lol. Yes, these are Muscovy from an adult Black Pied male I was given and two Black Pied females I bought for him. One of the girls disappeared so I grabbed some of the eggs just to try again and hoping to hatch something from her.

 

[BigWeenMachine]

My neighbor has a ton of peafowl. They are gorgeous birds. That's where I got the eggs. Being local really was a bonus. I've never hatched ducks (I'm trying calls now) so I can't compare. There's a ton of great forums here on BYC under "peafowl" that really helped me. I laid them down and hand turned. They weren't that hard. But I did have to do my first assist ever, on the first pea egg to pip. It was totally malpositioned but ended up a beautiful, healthy girl! The hard part is really after they hatch! Oh my goodness....they need a LOT of attention and imprint very easy. They would scream their heads off every time I walked out of the room and they couldn't see me. I posted a video of it here on BYC from my old phone. Maybe it's on my page? Then they start flying by 5 days old! They would fly right out of the brooder and land on my shoulders or right on top of my head. They wouldn't go to bed at night until I put them to sleep...I'm not even remotely exaggerating! I had to make it part of my nighttime routine. They would be tired and want to go to sleep so they would start crying incessantly until
I picked them up, wrapped them in a blanket and petted them till they fell asleep. Then I would lay them in the brooder (still in the blanket) trying not to move, waiting to pull my arm out so I wouldn't wake them. It was totally NUTS!! They really need/want a "mom". By 4 months old I was more then ready to send them home to my neighbor. But they still know me every time I visit they come right up to me. I did spoil them rotten. So just be prepared, you have been forewarned! Lol. But I've heard the ones that are hand raised are much easier to care for as adults. They'll stay close to home, let you administer medication, ect. Keep me posted when you decide to try them.

Lol, I did not know they were that needy. And I thought my first lil duckie that had to wait 2 days for his siblings to hatch was a whiny lil turd. I can totally believe it though after watching how sweet the 3 hens were with the male yesterday. They are very social birds. Hopefully next spring we get some chicks going!