Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[shawluvsbirds]

And for @Julie Birb

 

[Julie Birb]

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My oh my goodness. What can I say? What are these little precious things and why do I go bonkers at the sight of them?

 

[Julie Birb]

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EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE!! Shaw!! Thank you so much. I love you. Look at their little bitsy webs. Perfect.

 

[Julie Birb]

Malibu looks almost all white, just barely has some silvery feathers around her tail area. But I love her dark bill..
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I love how cute and puff and pancakey she is. She looks very soft and sweet.

 

[duluthralphie]

Outside for a breath of fresh air.

OMgosh!!!

The one washes his butt in the water and the other one drinks it!!! How disgusting!

 

[Julie Birb]

OMgosh!!!

The one washes his butt in the water and the other one drinks it!!! How disgusting!View attachment 1336186

He's building up his immune system.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I know what happened, I just don't know why.
And yes, partially the Eco Octagon, I think.... I'm honestly not sure about the call eggs. I moved them a couple times, since I had several sets going, I was shifting eggs between a few incubators. The CL eggs were definitely in the Eco.
I suspect it was because some of those eggs may have gotten cold outside before I collected them. But I think one of the cleanest eggs (therefore assuming probably one of the most recent laid) is one of the incomplete CAMs, so....

I always assumed it was a turning issue, but I was pretty diligent with my hand-turning. Oh well, guess we will see in a few days.

I know you knew what it was, just was explaining for anyone else tjat didn't know what you were showing...

You have a styrobator still, right? Does it hold steady temps? If it does, I would look into getting one of the IncuTurners they have now and trying it with the Calls... I had incomplete CAM's hand turning as well, but when I switched to just rolling them around with my hands a bit more times a day, they got better...

 

[Ravynscroft]

I candled at 8 days, now at 11 my aircells haven't changed since 8.

What day should I evaluate(I mean ask you guys), if I need to do something about that? I'm running under 35% rh.

Get pics of the air cells and we can see what they look like...

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Get pics of the air cells and we can see what they look like...

Will do, about an hour. One's crazy weird. Thank you!

 

[Ravynscroft]

@Ravynscroft
So i have a bunch of greys, trying to get some cool exciting colors in my flock. Not sure how this whole genetic things works but i have the option of adding one of the following:

white
Black bibbed crested or noncrested
Blue fawn
Snowy

Which one paired with one of my greys do you think would produce a variety of colors or just some cool colors? Im thinkin blue fawn would just be too similar, but let me know

Just one? When do you need to decide? I will come back to this tonight and give you my input...