I Hear DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MagsC]

So true!!!!!

There is at least one more that I am pretty sure is going to hatch.
I know people say DONT open the incubator and thats usually my way too, but with the number that have been hatching, I quick slide them out, put some warm water through a top vent and its kept the humidity up. This from a person who is totally against opening the darn thing, but when there are this many, I have found sometimes they crowd ON TOP of the ones hatching and I have lost chicks because of that.
Right now I have banties, gosling and ducklings in the same brooder, only temporarily(til tomorrow). I was teasing my aunt that our birds are going to have an identity crisis.

 

[Calebs Acre]

I've commented in many threads how I have to open the incubator during my hatches because they take 3-4 days for all of them to make themselves known.

I ended up turning down the temp with the higher humidity and it helped ducks from getting stuck in the egg. I did have a couple of them never pip, but were developed. But, there were 40 of them.

Ready for more eggs? LOL.

 

[MagsC]

Nancy, you sent 14, Shady Glade sent 13 and Critter Bazaar sent 4. The latter two are mixed eggs. I stopped counting what was what after 10 because I didnt even expect to get SIX!!!!

Though I do know there are more Indian Runners hatched.
Hatch is still going on, I am just going to not "expect" and be happy with what I am given.

Especially from shipped eggs.
I am a glutton for punishment because I just bought three muskovie and one cayuga egg. Plus my Blue Swedish due the 6th and two slate Indian Runners(given to me with my goose eggs) due the 4th.
So yep, I would guess I am destined to have ducks. And I am not complaining. Watching over them and being vigilant was well worth it.

 

[walkswithdog]

You need to hatch some poults too so they really all have a crisis!

Since I stagger hatch - the hand turned eggs need turning regardless of who's hatching.

And mine still hatch, so I guess it's working for me.

I've had a LOT better success since I went with high air flow and just managing the humidity at around 60%.

Each one that hatches raises it a bit anyway. I've done a lot better since I calmed down - go figure. That and having a bator I'm actually comfortable with, is making a huge difference. My first two were too small and I don't like a top lid. The mini-fridge bator suits me and what I'm doing. So it can last and go through improvements while I save for a Dickey.

 

[MagsC]

Nancy,lol, I am always ready for more eggs!!!!!

I just have to have the incubators emptied and cleaned out as I only have two that are in commission right now.
The Lyons needs a new fan, one LG needs a new heating element and the two old Browers just need insulation replaced. Going to get them all up and running this month.

 

[MagsC]

LOL,okay, I actually have three turkey eggs in there but no pips from those yet. So I guess I dont know how to hatch turkeys yet!!

I did buy three Blue Slate turkey eggs now from a BYC member to give it another try, and a couple of more purchases pending for mixed turkey eggs and another breed, I am so brain dead today I dont remember the last part of the name...it started with "White"....

Oh edited to say, I always hand turn because I dont have a turner.Good reason,huh?

With the waterfowl I kept the humidity up during incubation with the chicks I have kept the humidity low and then raised it the last three days.
Oh, I forgot my guinea eggs!!!! No one is going to know WHAT they are!!!!!!!!!

The only thing I dont have in the incubators right now is quail, peafowl etc. Always time for that.

 

[walkswithdog]

There are Midget White and Holland Whites - if that helps.

Midget = small, Holland = HUGE.

I want some Standard Bronze but they'll have to wait til next year.

There are now 8 bourbon red/buff eggs under the broody Buff, Rachel. Buffy takes her turn in there laying her eggs but is letting Rachel do the hard part. God bless a sweet broody she just lifts up and lets me look at the eggs.

 

[MagsC]

I believe it was Holland Whites? Thanks for jogging my defective memory,lol. With all the hatching I have been monitoring constantly and been afraid to sleep in case something bad happens while I am down and out. I know, I know, paranoid much?????

 

[walkswithdog]

I could loan you my growing Great Pyrenese puppy who still gets up at 3 am. And who will get up (and get you up) if there is ANY predator outside, no matter the hour and will YELL if a chicken outside or a poult outside is really upset about something. That way you never really get any down-and-out time.

 

[MagsC]

LOL, thank you but I have my own half Great Pyrenees pup that lets me know these things.

And as far as getting up in the early am, well I think he has a bladder the size of a pea.....

Arent Great Pyrenees absolutely wonderful???
My son and his wife to be just got an older one from a rescue and cant believe how well behaved and intelligent the dog is.