The Duck Thread

[Lacrystol]

Appropriately, her name is Cocktail!

how is she coming long, Sorry trying to catch up on some post here so if you have already said, i will get there. LOL

 

[Lacrystol]

@Lacrystol No change. She's still peeping and cheering!

AHHHH nope no change and guess what she's closing up...

 

[Lacrystol]

Well, Cocktail is still going strong!

OMG, I just want to squeeze her. LOL...

 

[City farm]

Duck's typically start laying around 7-9 months, give or take a few week's depending on the breed.. They are beautiful.. Our Muscovy's are not a sprinkle as our silver Swedish.. But also, was raising 6 for about 2 week's.. So I missed out on holding them for long periods of time..


On a different note, I was not sure if the 2 older duckling's were Muscovy, but have decided they are.. I have read that when people get duckling's that one breed

You don't have small rodents?? how you work that out? lol

Supposedly we have roof rat's in Phoenix & here in Tempe.. However we have a Cairn terrier & if there is a lizard, that she saw, she will not leave the spot untill I come let it out.. We have never seenroof rat's on our property..

 

[TheNeonPanther]

I feel horrible. I found a duck egg in a lake, I picked it up and took it home. I candled it, I never have been around duck eggs at all.(Well I have but not fertile ones..) there was was a white dot which I thought was a water bubble. I figured it wasn't good so I..cracked it open.. I realized what I thought was a water bubble was really a white dot which I am pretty sure means it's fertile. I wish I could have done some research!!! So mad at myself..at least I will know better next time..it may not have been viable anyways due to it being in the lake..I still feel bad though..

Also, I have hatched quail eggs but the quail embryos were much more mature.

 

[caesargirl]

@Lacrystolmost recent info.

 

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[Debs Flock]

Okay, I've been following along, but I'm not a hatcher. If she closes up (?) with that still outside, she'll be okay, right? It will scab & then fall off?

 

[Lacrystol]

OK so here's My prediction on your little girl in the cup. Her belly button is going to completely close up, however, she is going to continue to have that bubble hanging for a while. The closed up belly button will adventually cut off ALL circulation to the bubble and it will be totally useless.. Yes it will fall off but it will take some time... Once it does close up, she can come out of the cup because it's not going to do anything, even if it pops it's not going to hurt her because the belly button has completely blocked it. Its not going to be a pretty site for a while....

Think of it like a rubber band, This is going to be a HORRIBLE scenerio but just to give you an idea of what might happen.

Dog owners and even horse owners, will take a rubber band and wrap it as tight as they can around a dogs tail so that the tail will fall off and they will be tailless. Horse owners will do the same thing to horse so they can no longer be used for breeding that is Male/stud Horses.. lol I know I KNOW, I warned you this was going to be a horrible scenerio...


So the belly button is bascially going to do the same thing, It will close up blocking that bubble from entering inside her and turn black and fall off.

This is actually not a bad thing, because like I said earlier she is opened up to a WHOLE bunch of infections, now if that is or has any type of infection on it, bacteria etc. It will not enter her body and cause another issue...

Of course, we did not want this to occur but from that pic, it looks like she's rolling the dice not us.. So will let her do her thing...

She's so impatient and stubborn. Yes definitely a girl. HAHAHAHHAHAHA, her and I have something in common. LOL