setting eggs on Thurs. Hatch date Feb 4th-who's with me??

[daps2000]

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I can"t believe I didn't schedule my hatch date for Saturday When I'm off. Next time!

NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SMART IDEA!!! Me too! OR ... with this stress ... I'll just wait for a broody hen and let her do all the work!

 

[sonew123]

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I can"t believe I didn't schedule my hatch date for Saturday When I'm off. Next time!

NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SMART IDEA!!! Me too! OR ... with this stress ... I'll just wait for a broody hen and let her do all the work!

I know --My DH wants to see a momma hen and her babies walking around...Im going to stop incubating early Spring and if I have a broody let her do the work for a change lol

 

[Joyryder]

Does anyone here vacinate their chicks for Mareks?

 

[Cornychick]

Is it too late to join with my ducks? I didn't know they would come today and would like to share my pips! Tonight is the beginning of lockdown and 2 of 3 are already pipped!!

 

[daps2000]

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COOL!!! .... so ... I'm a first timer ... with hatching chicks ... and I know that this may sound down right silly ... but how does a duck come out of the shell?

they have a round beek ... and not a pointed one? NO LAUGHING AT ME!

 

[Cornychick]

This is only my 2nd time but 1st with ducks. I think they have an 'eggtooth' to help them out like chicks do?

 

[sonew123]

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NO I have never done it-been tempted but never had a problem..Im pretty much alone out here and cross contaminattion from someone elses chickens are pretty much non -existant..I try not to treat for things if I dont have them or had them..But believe me the first signs Im on it.

 

[sonew123]

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They do-and its a sharp little bugger too..I have only hatched 1 duck but I never foget the sharpnes of that thing while he was trying to snuggle my neck

 

[sonew123]

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You do realize now that you have "joined" there must be baby pictures of those baby ducks?? aheemm LOTS OF THEM!!!

 

[Cornychick]

I will happily do so!! Be right back!

Please excuse the dirt on the eggs. They were shipped and that's how I got them and I did not want to harm them by washing.