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I have been on the incubation thread and a lot are doing it at 4-7 days. I am like noooooooooooo don't do it til day 10 if you have to!

I know that when I tried to teach myself about candling, if I was going to throw it out, I cracked it open. Unfortunately I could see little dark spot that was a developing chick in a couple of eggs.

Never throw anything out until day 18.

I am considering sending a guide on incubation with eggs...........No candling til day 18 for chicken eggs. Day 10 if you are that curious. Days 1-18 open the bator daily to check for bad smells.

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Gabbard Farms did have a link for a free e-book on their website about incubation. I have given that link to several people. It was very informative and I haven't had the time to put one together on my website yet. It's on my priority list .... but not sure what page of the list it's on.
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Anyway, Gabbard's was in the process of publishing a book to sell so not sure if they're still offering that for free.

I think ChooksChick on byc has a good guide on one of her byc pages. I started one, jsut forgot until now. Will get back to work on it this weekend. Sometime. I hope.
 
Joy, I sold all but maybe 8 Coral Blues keets today(no, not to the "no show" from yesterday). I still have 4 or 5 that are around 6 weeks now. No one wants to pay $4 a piece for them so they buy the younger one at $3. Now I wish someone would buy all the buffs!!
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Good golly! I would buy your buffs and Coral blues and lavs and ....white and any other light color you have! Excellent price, too!
I just got some Guinea eggs in today from a lady that has Slates. I hope I get one or two of those but with my luck, probably not. I like all the light colors. I wish they weren't so obvious to predators though.
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However, my LGD does lie behind the barn at night when the Guineas go up into the tree to sleep so I feel she may be helping to watch them.
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And another weird thing.......I went around closing all the doors to the coops last night about dark and went into the Muscovy coop pen at the end of my barn to close up the Muscovy pair, 5 new ducklings and about 6 freezer camp roos. Well, I peeked in and saw Penelope and Herman laying in a corner so I just assumed (I know, I know!) that the 5 new babies were under them.
As I closed up everyone else I could not find my rotten teenage Muscovy ducks that fly around the farm and wander where ever they want. I thought perhaps I had closed them up with the other Muscovy girls, Huggs and Kisses because they visit in their pen a lot and Huggs has 3 ducklings from Penelope's eggs. They like eggs and babies, for some reason.
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I did find one Muscovy and "she" was alone by the pool. It was dark so I herded her out to the Peach shed (free standing duck coop) and put her up but still could find no sign of those 3 other Muscovy. I wondered if they had decided to roost with the Guineas in the tree but wasn't about to go look. I am so tired at dark I can barely place one foot in front of the other!
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So this morning I walk down to the barn and am looking for the Guineas and those 3 errant Muscovy creatures but still no sign of them. I just could not imagine where the heck they would be! However, I do go through and open coops first thing and the Muscovy pen is second on my list so I go into the pen to open the door and there stand those 3 juvenile Muscovy with all 5 ducklings underneath them!!!
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There is no way that those new ducklings could have gotten out of the coop during the night so those Muscovy must have flew in there after Herman went into the coop last night. He would not tolerate them near his babies otherwise. But it had to be before I went to close them up because I did not hear peeping from distressed ducklings but I did not see the 3 teens in there. Though the grass is rather tall so I could have missed them being over the babies because the babies cry when away from mom, or so I thought. They were quiet this morning until Penelope came out of the coop and talked to them. They ran to her and the teens were watching them but then Herman spotted them in his pen and chased them out. I tried to tell him that they did him a huge favor by cuddling the babies all night.
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I am just amazed by this! I have no idea if the Muscovy are boys or girls. I keep looking for tale tail signs but every day my opinion changes. I know one has to be a boy. He has a big feather raise on his neck when ticked off but 2 of the others have small feathers that raise only a tiny bit. I suppose I will know later when eggs start showing up.
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I am still amazed because the ducklings never peeped loud enough for me to ever hear them if Penelope left them outside or maybe they peeped and the others quickly flew in to care for them. Either way. It was cool and neat and this is another reason I love animals and to watch nature!
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