Hathing duck and chicken eggs!

[Chickenshark]

We have been incubating duck and chicken eggs and they are finally hatching! We are hatching indian runner ducks. I can't remember what breeds of chicken we had hatched. here are some pictures:

The first duckling!

The same duckling (standing)

The same duckling with one chick we hatched and a bantam chick we bought at the feed store

All three ducklings

 

[Chickenshark]

Woo-hoo another duckling hatched!

 

[Chickenshark]

Is anyone going to post?

 

[MomMommyMamma]

Congratulations on your ducklings! How many now?

 

[mommyofthree]

Too cute!!!

What color do you think that duckling is going to be when it's full grown?? I just had a pekin/runner mix hatch that looks just like yours, I only have fawn and white runners so I was surprised when the duckling came out with so much dark on it.

 

[Chickenshark]

Well we had to help one hatch. We have 5 now!

 

[tiffanya]

Very cute!

 

[Chickenshark]

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I'm not sure what color it will be, runner ducks are multi-colored. I don't know what Pekin ducks look like I can't find our breed book (uhgg). thanks for the post

 

[ichoudhury]

So you put the duck and the chicken eggs together in the incubator? So the ducks are hatching at day 23-25 ? Are you using an automatic Turner? How are you handling the lockdown period? (if you were hatching them together, I was wondering you should not stop at day 18 for chicks which would be too early for duck eggs from turning) . I hope I'm making sense with my question

 

[Chickenshark]

I will try to answer your question later