Mare's Illegal Cute-ness (Call Duck) Chat Thread!!

[muddy75]

They didn't include anything with my pair that I just received Wednesday. I guess it's possible they did and the little quackers ate it all but I didn't see any signs of anything but a tiny bit of shavings. They shipped on Monday afternoon from Montana and arrived in NC early Wednesday morning. @Overo Mare did Raz and Puddin have anything in their box?

Edited to add: My apologies! I didn't ready far enough. Typical me

It can be different with weather too.....I know myshire and others will typically put cucumbers or similar in with juvenile/adults especially during warmer months. And if they did use the gro-gel, there probably wouldn't be any remnants left after 2 days in transit. But most birds are relatively resilient and can survive a couple days without anything in the box during milder weather. I would just be scared to death with risk of delays etc.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It can be different with weather too.....I know myshire and others will typically put cucumbers or similar in with juvenile/adults especially during warmer months. And if they did use the gro-gel, there probably wouldn't be any remnants left after 2 days in transit. But most birds are relatively resilient and can survive a couple days without anything in the box during milder weather. I would just be scared to death with risk of delays etc.

Yeah, they put a ton of cucumber in with the 20 quail I ordered a few years ago

 

[Painted Calls]

Yeah, they put a ton of cucumber in with the 20 quail I ordered a few years ago

They were chicks though, right?

 

[muddy75]

They were chicks though, right?

Probably 3-4 week olds……….most don’t ship new hatch quail chicks

 

[Painted Calls]

Probably 3-4 week olds……….most don’t ship new hatch quail chicks

Interesting! I know nothing about quail.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Not exactly. They were teens, 10 were 5 weeks and 10 were 4 weeks

They were chicks though, right?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Interesting! I know nothing about quail.

Too fragile. Commercial hatcheries will, because you have to buy 100+ so the little buggers are warm

 

[HeatherKellyB]

It can be different with weather too.....I know myshire and others will typically put cucumbers or similar in with juvenile/adults especially during warmer months. And if they did use the gro-gel, there probably wouldn't be any remnants left after 2 days in transit. But most birds are relatively resilient and can survive a couple days without anything in the box during milder weather. I would just be scared to death with risk of delays etc.

That makes a lot of sense. I was terrified about delays. I think I was even more worried about @Overo Mare pair because they were delivered on a Friday, right? Since we had just got through that power outage from the attacks on the substations I was worried there would be a hold up with the postal service, but a lady called me on the scheduled delivery day, before they opened and said, "Hello. I was calling to let you know there is, ummm, some kind of ?bird? here at the post office for you."

 

[Painted Calls]

That makes a lot of sense. I was terrified about delays. I think I was even more worried about @Overo Mare pair because they were delivered on a Friday, right? Since we had just got through that power outage from the attacks on the substations I was worried there would be a hold up with the postal service, but a lady called me on the scheduled delivery day, before they opened and said, "Hello. I was calling to let you know there is, ummm, some kind of ?bird? here at the post office for you."

Yep! They called me 10 minutes before closing, too. Talk about a nervous wreck lol.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I had similar luck with shipped call duck eggs, just one hatched out of I think 18. That little duckling only lived around 10 days, too, so that was rough all around.

I didn't have much better luck with eggs from the pair I bought, though. Crash is the only one that ever hatched from them and I'm pretty sure that was only because I had weakened her shell for her when I dropped her egg at lockdown. But I never tried again after her. Too much heartbreak.

I don't have great success with incubator hatches from my own eggs. But they do pretty good hatching them out theirselves!