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wingstone said:
Sally, that is an average temp flucuation for me,,,my house does not hold any temperatures, hot all day and freezing at night........I managed to hatch with that,,,,I think those eggs will be just fine..

Blarney,   how about I keep posting as they grow then come late summer when they start to lay eggs, you go ahead and throw them in the bator,   then you can say you got eggs and didn't know that they were ducks.
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Enable much? Wing, these pics are killing me, those babies are so stinking cute!!
 
SilkieSensation said:

Wing: Got a whole bator empty, cleaned & warming up for your fertility check...lol
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hopefully this week, weather permitting

Blarneyeggs said:
Quote: will need to have some place for babies and eggs,,,I will have a hard time eating those duckie eggs, knowing what they could be,,,so I either need to find others who want eggs or i will have to hatch them myself, then what, I will be over run with duckies...

by the way they start out with blackish eggs and get lighter to a gray color as they go

I am told the eggs also lighten up in the incubator right before hatch..
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wingstone said:

hopefully this week, weather permitting

Blarneyeggs said:
 
wingstone said:
Sally, that is an average temp flucuation for me,,,my house does not hold any temperatures, hot all day and freezing at night........I managed to hatch with that,,,,I think those eggs will be just fine..


Blarney,   how about I keep posting as they grow then come late summer when they start to lay eggs, you go ahead and throw them in the bator,   then you can say you got eggs and didn't know that they were ducks.
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[COLOR=0000FF]Enable much? Wing, these pics are killing me, those babies are so stinking cute!![/COLOR]
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will need to have some place for babies and eggs,,,I will have a hard time eating those duckie eggs, knowing what they could be,,,so I either need to find others who want eggs or i will have to hatch them myself, then what, I will be over run with duckies...

by the way they start out with blackish eggs and get lighter to a gray color as they go

I am told the eggs also lighten up in the incubator right before hatch..
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Ok now what kind of ducks are these? I may want some eggs... Please......
 
really trying to make this a productive day, despite the weather...

managed to get done..

laundry detergent made
bottle of fabric softener made
dish soap made
eggs boiled and peeled to add to my pickled container


now if only I could convince myself to go out side and do some chicken work
 
PAchickenlover said:
Quote: will need to have some place for babies and eggs,,,I will have a hard time eating those duckie eggs, knowing what they could be,,,so I either need to find others who want eggs or i will have to hatch them myself, then what, I will be over run with duckies...

by the way they start out with blackish eggs and get lighter to a gray color as they go

I am told the eggs also lighten up in the incubator right before hatch..

Ok now what kind of ducks are these? I may want some eggs... Please......
Black east indie,,,this is my first time with this breed, so I really can only go by research.
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wingstone said:
really trying to make this a productive day, despite the weather...

managed to get done..

laundry detergent made
bottle of fabric softener made
dish soap made
eggs boiled and peeled to add to my pickled container


now if only I could convince myself to go out side and do some chicken work
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Geez Wing, I was productive too.....I set up a gallon of hard cider.....we all have out priorities...also, I'm thawing out a small turkey...(does that really count?)
 
wingstone said:
FIL does not like the dog boxes sitting around......kind of an issue right now,,,,the place belongs to the FIL and he worries so much about what a neighbor might think when driving past....don't get me started on this issue.....

my issue is the barn,,,, hubby got out of the pig business about 15 years ago, he ripped most of the cages out of the barn, but the space has been taken over by relatives storing things,,,,,,snowmobile trailers and things like that,,,hubby stores his grain truck and one of the small tractors in there also,,,,,,is is a whole barn being wasted,,,I have a small closet size area for my feed storage and room enough to put a brooder...that's it......has been the subject of many arguments...
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I imagine I would be having words about it also, especially if the relatives taking advantage of the space refuse to do any maintaining in return. I don't know what the ultimate plan is for the farm, but may be in your best interest to have a heart to heart with the FIL about effort vs benefit... though I imagine those have already happened and haven't yielded results. Families can be a royal pain much of the time. I am flat out not politically correct when dealing with it, I call it the way I see it and often it isn't appreciated much, but it works for me. I can understand your need to pick your battles though, with this being your FIL, and very possibly it is just that he doesn't want to accept some family just takes advantage...

I don't know how many birds you put in your breeding pens, but is it feasible to do a chicken tractor type set up which is divided in half with shared space underneath and have it on wheels so it can be moved out of easy sight from road when not needed?
If your groups are small you could do a 2 story set up like our 'condo'. It is 4'x4'x8' tall. My mom had it as a quail house years ago and gave it to me to get it out of her yard. We placed it on the end of our run away from the coop and divided it into 2 floor with some scrap wood nailed to the walls inside and plywood for a floor. Each level has a hatch on the back side and a pop door in the front. For windows we cut holes out of the sides and covered them with Plexiglas we had cut to size at the local hardware. In each level we put a perching bar big enough for 4 birds and a box for a nest. We then covered the floor with a mix of hay and wood shavings. In our case both pop doors face the same side, but it could easily be set up so they are on different sides, to allow for access into separate pens. It could be painted to look like a decorative outhouse or a potting shed.

In our run it is the hangout for the teenagers most of the time, though a few of the hens really like laying eggs in there. We did add little 'porticos' out of pieces of bent plastic roofing panels to keep the wind from blowing in rain or snow. I figured it would be easy to separate either top or bottom floor off if needed for us to separate out any small group or a broody or something.






 
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fisherlady, I love how you used natural branches for roost and the tree stumps..
 

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