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Apolinne said:
I've been asking questions and posting on this forum for a couple of months so I guess introductions are in order.
I recently decided that I won't tolerate the lack of ducks in my life any longer and I had the great idea of hatching the poor souls myself in an incubator. Because of course I did. And Let me tell you the hatch day was a ride. Kinder surprise can suck it. Try getting a real egg ! When the first baby hatched I bawled my eyes out. It was Harold fine hair, a day early.

For some reason I thought it can't be that hard to stick a bunch of eggs into an incubator. I was wrong! But my research brought me to this here forum, for which I am grateful. I found wonderful articles on hatching and egg development, on how and when to help an egg hatch and in June I was able to help 2 out of my 8 Indian runner eggs hatch. The rest of them managed it well on thier own.
And so now we have the ladies: Lady, Julia, Eliza and Tempest and the gentlemen: Hubert, Harold fine hair, Vigo and Kepler.
Do I have 4 drakes ? Yes, yes I do. So more ducks are probably coming.
Wonderful people here helped me with my ducks and helped my ducks with me. (You see, I made their coop too small.) Thank you all. I hope I can someday repay the kindness somehow.
Also 3 days ago I discovered that Japanese Chabo's are a thing, and I didn't know I needed those, but now I need those.
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Guuuuys, is Lady a gentleman ? Her head is turning green. Every other boy is done molting so I thought it's a girl for sure and she has no neck ring either.
 

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Apolinne said:
Guuuuys, is Lady a gentleman ? Her head is turning green. Every other boy is done molting so I thought it's a girl for sure and she has no neck ring either.
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she’s 11 weeks old? You should be able to tell by the quack sound or the not quack sound. pick her up and walk away from the others raise her up and down a bit something to make her quack… or not to quack ( that is the question lol)
 
Apolinne said:
I've been asking questions and posting on this forum for a couple of months so I guess introductions are in order.
I recently decided that I won't tolerate the lack of ducks in my life any longer and I had the great idea of hatching the poor souls myself in an incubator. Because of course I did. And Let me tell you the hatch day was a ride. Kinder surprise can suck it. Try getting a real egg ! When the first baby hatched I bawled my eyes out. It was Harold fine hair, a day early.

For some reason I thought it can't be that hard to stick a bunch of eggs into an incubator. I was wrong! But my research brought me to this here forum, for which I am grateful. I found wonderful articles on hatching and egg development, on how and when to help an egg hatch and in June I was able to help 2 out of my 8 Indian runner eggs hatch. The rest of them managed it well on thier own.
And so now we have the ladies: Lady, Julia, Eliza and Tempest and the gentlemen: Hubert, Harold fine hair, Vigo and Kepler.
Do I have 4 drakes ? Yes, yes I do. So more ducks are probably coming.
Wonderful people here helped me with my ducks and helped my ducks with me. (You see, I made their coop too small.) Thank you all. I hope I can someday repay the kindness somehow.
Also 3 days ago I discovered that Japanese Chabo's are a thing, and I didn't know I needed those, but now I need those.
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Welcome. Oh my, your ducks are very beautiful.
 

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