setting eggs tonight!! anyone else?

[LaynaDon95]

Sounds like a movie plot: baby sit ducklings, have parent baby sit ducklings, oh darn have to have some of our own ducklings
What a great plan Why did you order roosters?
I plan on setting one more batch of eggs to hatch this spring and maybe one batch really late in the year or really early next year. I'm trying to coordinate with a friend that has Seramas and would like to try hatching about a doz. eggs and I want to collect from my three show girls and my rooster for a week so I should have 10-16 eggs. I think Seramas are really, really tiny and hatch at 19 days so putting them together could be interesting. Seramas are tiny bantams and mine are very large, standard size fowl.

lol I'm trying to use these ducklings as an example of how easy ducks are to raise with chickens, but so far it doesn't seem to be working. My dad doesn't want another animal to add to the feed bill. But he's okay with more chickens. I keep telling him ducks can eat the feed we feed our chickens so they wouldn't add any more that more chickens would, but either he doesn't believe me, or... something else. I'm not sure. I'll try again after the heat of the summer.
I ordered roosters to breed with my hen. She's absolutely gorgeous and I want more of them. I got 2 to make sure at least 1 survives. And if they both do, I'll choose the prettiest.
They came in eeeaarly this morning. They are so pretty!
One of our silkies has an extra toe! Like an extra, extra toe!


I'm about to go take more pictures of all the chicks. I'm SO happy to have little fluff butts!!

 

[cowchick11]

Better watch out that one might start opening doors!
I will take more photos of my chicks this weekend. They need the brooder to be cleaned and I need to put leg bands on them. I already think that I have a Lavender (self blue) project Orp. rooster he has a larger comb and was giving me the rooster look the other day. That means that he gets handled more!

 

[LaynaDon95]

Better watch out that one might start opening doors!
I will take more photos of my chicks this weekend. They need the brooder to be cleaned and I need to put leg bands on them. I already think that I have a Lavender (self blue) project Orp. rooster he has a larger comb and was giving me the rooster look the other day. That means that he gets handled more!

ROFL about him opening doors!
Ooh, I can't wait to see pics!
I got some cute ones of mine. I'll post later.
Soooo...
The other the day the chicks/ducklings came in when my dad got home from work I took him out showed them to him. He was watching the duckling kind of intently, and I just let him alone, hoping he would tell me I could get some. Finally he said "What are you feeding them?" I said "Chick stater, same as the chicks. Ducks eat the same as chickens, though there is some debate over whether a niacin supplement is necessary..." He acted as if he had never heard such a thing as ducks eating the same feed as chickens... (Which he has. I used that over and over again to try to get him to let me get ducks. =P) He said "Hmph" And walked away.
I said.

"I fail once again."

So then he came in last night and said "Oh, you can get a pair of ducks. 1 female, 1 male, and if they make babies, then they make babies."
and I said. 0.o wait, what?
And then it hit me.
I CAN GET DUCKS! =D

 

[CALI CHICK]

ROFL about him opening doors!
Ooh, I can't wait to see pics!
I got some cute ones of mine. I'll post later.
Soooo...
The other the day the chicks/ducklings came in when my dad got home from work I took him out showed them to him. He was watching the duckling kind of intently, and I just let him alone, hoping he would tell me I could get some. Finally he said "What are you feeding them?" I said "Chick stater, same as the chicks. Ducks eat the same as chickens, though there is some debate over whether a niacin supplement is necessary..." He acted as if he had never heard such a thing as ducks eating the same feed as chickens... (Which he has. I used that over and over again to try to get him to let me get ducks. =P) He said "Hmph" And walked away.
I said.

"I fail once again."

So then he came in last night and said "Oh, you can get a pair of ducks. 1 female, 1 male, and if they make babies, then they make babies."
and I said. 0.o wait, what?
And then it hit me.
I CAN GET DUCKS! =D

You crack me up, LaynaDon! And, you are learning how men think.......they want you to believe it was THEIR idea when the decision is finally made. You can plead, you can beg, but you have to just wait for them to announce that decision in their time!

Congratulations on being able to get ducks.

Can't wait until you post pictures.

 

[cowchick11]

I like that if they make babies, they make babies part. Does he know you invested in a bator? Technically the babies have to already be started "made" before you can incubate them up into ducklings. I'm just saying!

 

[drdoolittle]

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You crack me up, LaynaDon! And, you are learning how men think.......they want you to believe it was THEIR idea when the decision is finally made. You can plead, you can beg, but you have to just wait for them to announce that decision in their time!

This is SO true! I have been trying to convince my DH to let me get a chihuahua puppy for the past 3 weeks (it's from a litter an aquaintance of mine has from her chihuahua and won't be ready until the first full week of June). Today DH said, "I haven't given my stamp of approval yet." He will, and he knows he will!


Good luck with your ducks!

 

[cowchick11]

Pictures!!!


The three chicks that survived from my first hatch (out of four that hatched from 6 eggs, our farm crosses). They all appear to be pullets and I hope so, my brother likes them and they have had names from the get go. He was upset when the other black one died at about 1 week. Monkey is the black one and the other two are Chip and Dale, my brother know which is who



My 4 week old shipped in Speckled Sussex (8), 15 Easter hatch eggs/chicks at 3 weeks old, shipped and some of our own, 2 from our eggs a yellow and black chick, 6 BBS English Orpingtons, and 7 Lavendar (self-blue) project Orpingtons.

 

[LaynaDon95]

You crack me up, LaynaDon! And, you are learning how men think.......they want you to believe it was THEIR idea when the decision is finally made. You can plead, you can beg, but you have to just wait for them to announce that decision in their time!

Congratulations on being able to get ducks.

Can't wait until you post pictures.

I knew he would be okay with it after a while. He kinda slow to try new things, but what was really throwing him off was the feed costs, I think. Once he saw with his own 2 eyes, ducks, eating chicken feed, that's all he needed. I suspected that would do it, so I was ecstatic when I was asked to duck sit! The best part though, was when it worked! =P

I like that if they make babies, they make babies part. Does he know you invested in a bator? Technically the babies have to already be started "made" before you can incubate them up into ducklings. I'm just saying!

I know. When he said that I was like "o.0" because Muscovies are like the best broodies ever! And I've told him that. He doesn't seem concerned as long as we don't end up overrun with ducklings. With only 1 hen that shouldn't be a problem. (though some people, including the woman I'm getting them from, say some hens will hatch out as many as 30 ducklings at a time.) My mom doesn't mind if they breed because she wants to eat them. I guess my dad doesn't either, because he's letting me get a drake... I don't really know. All I know is that he's letting me get a pair of ducks that will most likely breed and hatch out babies. I can't say I'm very sad about that.

 

[LaynaDon95]

Pictures!!!


The three chicks that survived from my first hatch (out of four that hatched from 6 eggs, our farm crosses). They all appear to be pullets and I hope so, my brother likes them and they have had names from the get go. He was upset when the other black one died at about 1 week. Monkey is the black one and the other two are Chip and Dale, my brother know which is who



My 4 week old shipped in Speckled Sussex (8), 15 Easter hatch eggs/chicks at 3 weeks old, shipped and some of our own, 2 from our eggs a yellow and black chick, 6 BBS English Orpingtons, and 7 Lavendar (self-blue) project Orpingtons.

They are feathering out so prettily! Though I have to say, 3-5 weeks old is definitely not the most beautiful age in chicks... I have some just coming out of that stage, and now they are gorgeous! =P And in about 3 weeks, I'll have some more going into that stage...

 

[klj491]

I read this thread all the way through the other night. I'll be setting my first eggs in three weeks and I can't wait!