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My magpie MoonMoon is growing brown feathers as well as black and white.... Anyone know why? (Not mud, lol)
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It's just there, on her tail a bit, and wings.
 
It's not been a good week. I have one question I just want the easiest way and not a lot of money to be spent. How do you fix hot and cold spots in incubator and in a live duck.
 
It's not been a good week. I have one question I just want the easiest way and not a lot of money to be spent. How do you fix hot and cold spots in incubator and in a live duck.

@MeepBeep had an idea for that, I think.
-Banti
 
Forced air stabilizes incubator temperature, adding a fan should fix any hot/cold spots. There are several tutorials out there for how to do it, just google how to install a fan in an incubator and look for your incubator type among the pile of results! If your incubator is big and you want to be super sure of it, consider two fans. They're not expensive or difficult to install, generally.

As for fixing it on a "live duck," you might just have a poor mother on your hands. If you're providing her with a safe, secure nest and all the materials she needs and she's not hatching anything or she's hatching nothing but herniated babies, I would just stop hatching under her. Sounds like a bad broody to me. From the sounds of it you are always candling/checking/pulling eggs so maybe also don't bother her at all for an entire incubation period, just clean everything up, make sure it is all 100% secure, and let her go hands off. I do not mean that in a rude way! But daily tampering is absolutely excessive tampering, undeniably.

You will probably get the best/more specific answers by making a thread in the related forum about it, it will have way more eyes on it. Hatching shouldn't be as hard as it has been for you so the more feedback you get the better and that's going to take broader visibility
 
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The incubator is circulated air. The fan has been upgraded in both to over 80 degrees. There's a small fan beside the incubators. There a nebulizer in one air hole in both incubators and a vaporizer going. And a small grow light. In middle. Two thermometer humidity gauge. With air conditioning on 70. Or they will not work.if duck temp is anywhere from 100.00 to 107.00 where is the heat lost. I talked to vet these week. I've also have talked to one of the Hatchery's these week. Been in touch with both places and to get office. Vet say genitic hatchery says hot and cold spots. I'll I know is people who buy ducks and chickens or other do not want to buy a problem bird at all. I have added a few things to coop but I don't have all tools yet. Vaporizer will but hot steam into the house where they live but blocked of with wire fencing to keep ducks away from it. I also added a humidifier to coop.to put cool air same thing blocked off. I have added several water containers and open drinking water to it. I add two humidity gauges in front and in back. I have put a wet balb in that went to heat meat. In one of the water containers. Last time we put a piece of dog cage divider to bottom to keep eggs from dropping into diatomaciuse earth. One heating pad under one nesting box.with towel over it. It's not all going I blew the circet out to light fixture on over laud. To much going to one outlet breaker. Pine . One will be on floor of house where she was happy. Hope will be in nesting box. It will act the same way as incubators do in house. Along with one heat light to house. For warmth.but it still will not explain the hot and cold spots in incubators still making all hen eggs have that condition . Long story short. New baby's came. One has the hernia also. We got refund on her. And she is in kennel bye herself. They can not do surgery it will kill her. Dr said don't breed her. Never less Monday had 10 week old chicken die in coop built last weekend. I am lost. We moved ducks to that coop with bathtub baby ducks. And chickens to where my drake was. My partner was out of work for a few days. And vet costs.
 

Olive is getting so big! She thinks she's still teensy, though. I wonder how long she'll fit on my shoulder? I'll probably have to make room for her forever somehow, haha.
 

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