Mare's Big Scary Duck Hatching Adventure! (Now a rabbit chat thread)

[Painted Calls]

Thought I'd go ahead and start a thread to follow my very first experience with ducks.

Let's preface this with I'm a chicken person. I have never owned ducks. I have been reading and learning, but I am positive that I will have a million questions along the way. Most likely two million concerns.

This spring, a couple friends will be shipping me Call eggs to hatch. I've never used an incubator either. So that's scary. I have noticed that they seem 10x more complicated than a broody. There will be so many questions regarding that. Most likely mainly that.

Once I hopefully hatch these tiny cute things, the rest *should* be smooth sailing. Until then I'll be a nervous wreck.

I already have a nice pen and house. Need to put in a pond. Going to look at a preformed liner here soon. Plans are to put a drain in it and run PVC below it and out of the pen. That way cleaning is easier. I will log all that process here as it happens.

I ordered an incubator yesterday. Let the anxiety fun begin!

@Conan @shawluvsbirds @The Moonshiner

 

[HappyDuckie]

Yay yay yay!
What incubator did you order?

 

[Painted Calls]

Yay yay yay!
What incubator did you order?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0838VM7C9?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

 

[EverythingDucks]

I love calls!!!!! What colors are you getting?
I don't know much about hatching but I can help with them once they've hatched.

@Isaac 0 and @Miss Lydia are both very knowledgeable about ducks. Isaac owns Call ducks

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Thought I'd go ahead and start a thread to follow my very first experience with ducks.

Let's preface this with I'm a chicken person. I have never owned ducks. I have been reading and learning, but I am positive that I will have a million questions along the way. Most likely two million concerns.

This spring, a couple friends will be shipping me Call eggs to hatch. I've never used an incubator either. So that's scary. I have noticed that they seem 10x more complicated than a broody. There will be so many questions regarding that. Most likely mainly that.

Once I hopefully hatch these tiny cute things, the rest *should* be smooth sailing. Until then I'll be a nervous wreck.

I already have a nice pen and house. Need to put in a pond. Going to look at a preformed liner here soon. Plans are to put a drain in it and run PVC below it and out of the pen. That way cleaning is easier. I will log all that process here as it happens.

I ordered an incubator yesterday. Let the anxiety fun begin!

@Conan @shawluvsbirds @The Moonshiner

Well the first thing I will tell you concerning your pond....
We also ran a drain underground with PVC and enclosed a ball valve to open and close it inside an old cooler. It would have been great except for, it was constantly getting clogged up. Also tiny ducks apparently have a fetish for tossing tiny rocks into the pool
Eventually a rock got in the ball valve and i broke it trying to work it loose.
I would suggest either spending the money on a metal ball valve instead of plastic,or building up just one side and leaving your drain side exposed and drain it out the side.

 

[Painted Calls]

I love calls!!!!! What colors are you getting?
I don't know much about hatching but I can help with them once they've hatched.

@Isaac 0 and @Miss Lydia are both very knowledgeable about ducks. Isaac owns Call ducks

I'm not entirely sure haha!

 

[Painted Calls]

Well the first thing I will tell you concerning your pond....
We also ran a drain underground with PVC and enclosed a ball valve to open and close it inside an old cooler. It would have been great except for, it was constantly getting clogged up. Also tiny ducks apparently have a fetish for tossing tiny rocks into the pool
Eventually a rock got in the ball valve and i broke it trying to work it loose.
I would suggest either spending the money on a metal ball valve instead of plastic,or budingnup just one side and leaving your drain side exposed and drain it out the side.

Great advice, thank you!!

 

[CHlCKEN]

Thought I'd go ahead and start a thread to follow my very first experience with ducks.

Let's preface this with I'm a chicken person. I have never owned ducks. I have been reading and learning, but I am positive that I will have a million questions along the way. Most likely two million concerns.

This spring, a couple friends will be shipping me Call eggs to hatch. I've never used an incubator either. So that's scary. I have noticed that they seem 10x more complicated than a broody. There will be so many questions regarding that. Most likely mainly that.

Once I hopefully hatch these tiny cute things, the rest *should* be smooth sailing. Until then I'll be a nervous wreck.

I already have a nice pen and house. Need to put in a pond. Going to look at a preformed liner here soon. Plans are to put a drain in it and run PVC below it and out of the pen. That way cleaning is easier. I will log all that process here as it happens.

I ordered an incubator yesterday. Let the anxiety fun begin!

@Conan @shawluvsbirds @The Moonshiner

Wonderful! You, @Corbdee and I will be doing frantic duck research together.

I ordered mine in January but I still feel like a new parent (even though ive had ducks before!) who knows absolutely nothing. I’m going crazy. I haven’t even chosen a coop!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

You know we'll demand pictures the whole time

 

[CHlCKEN]

I’m starting (resuming?) with a reasonable number. Just four, but we all know that won’t last long. I’m already planning next years order