MAY Hatch-Along!!!! Let's do this!!!

[wordgirl]

My Ancona eggs just arrived!!!!! I'm super excited and quite nervous at the same time. But this is going to be an exciting month!
I'll be setting them tomorrow - 10 Anconas.

I'd love to have some hatching buddies, so anyone else setting eggs this month??? What are you putting in the bator?

BYC May 2012 Duck Hatch-Along Buddies So Far:

wordgirl - 10 Anconas
toadbriar - 77 Anconas
fowllover - 8 Australian Spotted
3 Snow Call ducks
2 Welsh Harlequin
Diamond 88 - 7 Call Ducks
njduck - Pekin, Rouen, and Runner mixes
Goin Quackrrs - Cayuga
2 Khaki Campbell
1 Swedish
Mixed breeds
More Swedish
Runners
Appleyards
mandelyn - Saxony (hopefully

)
featherfinder - Runner X Swedish
Ilovemyduckies - 9 Pekin/Cayuga
countrygirl_011 - Calls
(Guineas

)
DrChickenKev - 10-11 Muscovy
DoesItQuack - 11 Mixed Swedish
donnavee - eggs under two broody Calls
GoneQuackers - 5 Cayuga,
4 Black Swedish
4 Blue Runner
mrgreenjeans53 - 7 Mallard,
3 Rouen
(and RSLs and Pheasants)
poularde - 14 Runner
WallabyofChaos - 24 Calls
mominoz - 8 Runners
8 Dutch Hookbills
thorneinmyside - 1 unknown!
WillsC - 19 Muscovies
QuailGuy88 - 10 Mexican speckled quail
2 Coturnix
mettafour - 5 eggs under a broody Ancona
Nsampsel - 2 Runners and 2 Saxony
7 Calls
2 Black East Indies
(72 chicks)
TheDuckWoman - eggs under a broody
Foreverlovnlife - 10 eggs
UKducklover - 5 Pekins
Quackers08 - eggs under a broody; more eggs coming in 2 weeks
billw - 12 Swedish/Buff/Golden 300 Mixes

That's a pretty good mix of breeds - it'd be fun to see what our collective hatch numbers are!

 

[wordgirl]

Alright, I just put 10 Ancona eggs in the incubator and topped off the humidity troughs. First time incubating, so here we go!

Anyone else setting duck eggs?

 

[toadbriar]

bahahahaha I am just warming up the incubators myself.. we'll be hatching out a bunch of siblings.

 

[wordgirl]

bahahahaha I am just warming up the incubators myself.. we'll be hatching out a bunch of siblings.

Yay!

This should be fun! Lots of Ancona pictures!

Anybody else?

 

[fowllover]

Hello-

This is the first time I have hatched ducks and I know I am taking on a large task with my choice.....call ducks. I bought my eggs on ebay and will be setting them tomorrow. I have 17 call ducks and 1 welsh harlequin (from one of my ducks)

Hopefully I will have decent results!

 

[Diamond88]

I've currently got 7 call duck eggs in an incubator. This is only day 3, so there's a long way to go, but it's fun so far and everyone is excited! It's my first time hatching eggs.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I've got seven seperate hatches planned for this month.

Cayuga, 2 Khaki Campbell and a Swedish in the hatcher on lockdown.

Got mixed ducks scheduled for Mother's Day and my birthday.

Got Swedish, Runners and Appleyards that just went in the bator yesterday.

 

[mandelyn]

Dang, I just unplugged everything after the last ducklings left and the freshest eggs too. A guy came to buy some Serama and I sent him home with a pile of eggs too that I had stashed since I was out of ducklings.

It's tempting to do another batch, the Saxony certainly sell well. I'm giving the girls a shot at it, letting them keep their eggs now. Duchess is working on it, I keep finding her on the nest in the middle of the afternoon, though she doesn't seem to be taking it seriously.

But maybe she'll join the hatch-a-long. She's started burying them, that's new. And she's gotten more aggressive. Maybe she'll turn 100% broody instead of only half way.

 

[wordgirl]

Hello-

This is the first time I have hatched ducks and I know I am taking on a large task with my choice.....call ducks. I bought my eggs on ebay and will be setting them tomorrow. I have 17 call ducks and 1 welsh harlequin (from one of my ducks)

Hopefully I will have decent results!

Hi fowllover! Welcome, and

! I hope your hatch goes well! I can't wait to see what hatches for you - do you have a variety of colors of your calls, or are they all a certain color?

 

[wordgirl]

I've currently got 7 call duck eggs in an incubator. This is only day 3, so there's a long way to go, but it's fun so far and everyone is excited! It's my first time hatching eggs.

Hi Diamond88! Yay, another first-timer! I'm glad I've got some fellow BYC'ers to do this with on my first try!

Do you know what colors you've got? Hope everything goes well for you!

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