Hatchery Duckumentary

[duckyfromoz]

Just watched this...and found it interesting..

 

[animalloverabh]

did you see the little duckling get its head squished when he cloesed the door?

thanks for sharing

 

[chicken boy sam]

I thought that was great!!! However, he shouldn't have opened the incubator during lockdown, correct?

 

[duckyfromoz]

He did have the door open for a while during filming.... I guess those bigger commercial incubators are a lot different to the little ones we use in our homes! I just thought it was interesting as out here we dont have so many of the big hatcheries like there is in the USA. I have been to one here..But I only saw the areas where they prepare the eggs before incubation and the brooder sections for after hatching.

 

[katharinad]

This is interesting. BTW I've read the the incubator rooms at commercial hatcheries have an average temperature of 85-95 degrees. Those machines really heat up the small room around them because they have to let a certain amount of air in and out so the ducks wont suffocate. Also the farm featured was Metzer Farms in Gonzales California. I thought it was interesting that they used pipes with water nipples for their ducks. I always thought those are only good for chickens. I really understand why they use them. Water is short and expensive where they are at. Even the farmers around there use recycled sewage water. I used to live in that area, but never went to Metzer Farms. Well back then I did not have the land to own ducks, and we did no own the house either.

 

[Sweetfolly]

The story about the couple having "sexual performance" issues was a little random!

I've never read anything about duck eggs being good for....that.

 

[rgn87]

I really enjoyed the piece. I felt kinda bad for all those ducks all squeezed together, but I guess people like us buy them so it makes it all worth while. I wonder what the guy needed 40,000 eggs for?

 

[1lpoock]

Thats neat! But it did bother me that he just popped open that zipped egg.

 

[katharinad]

I guess after all those years it just becomes natural to pop open an egg.
It was filmed on Metzer Farms in CA. http://www.metzerfarms.com