The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Good Morning/Evening Everyone.

My birds do okay brooding in dead of summer. They will pant and I have fans in both my coops. Most of the time my birds are brooding on nothing and trying to break them is like trying to stop a fast-moving train. So I just let them.

 

[nchls school]

Good morning / evening folks

Good afternoon.

I just came in from doing afternoon chores dismayed that the temperatures are dropping and from finding a white phoenix hen ill. The thought of possibly losing a hen is horrid as I only have six pure hens and pullets. I'm hoping with some TLC the hen will be OK, but we'll see what the future brings.

 

[nchls school]

Good Morning/Evening Everyone.

My birds do okay brooding in dead of summer. They will pant and I have fans in both my coops. Most of the time my birds are brooding on nothing and trying to break them is like trying to stop a fast-moving train. So I just let them.

Do you ever sell hatching eggs or make egg swaps?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nope have never done either. I give a lot of eggs away for eating when my girls are laying good. I’ve bought eggs from members here. Runner/ Buffs then chicken eggs.I will need a new Roo one of these days my oldest is 12 and hasn’t been fertile for quite some time my youngest is an OEGB (4)and prefers the LF hens so you know he’s not fertilizing any one.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Afternoon all... serious question.. to incubate or not to incubate duck eggs? We are about to enter middle of summer and they will hatch around our Feburary heat waves

Incubate always. Ducklings!

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Mr bojangles is better. His feet don't cross now but he's still bowlegged. I decided not to hobble him as the problem is in his drumsticks not his legs. Not a niacin deficiency but a birth defect I think. He was part of the eggs incubated at the wrong temp.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm glad he can walk now without his feet crossing.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Are you going to let a duck brood?

My ducks don't sit sadly. Use electric incubator.

How warm are your heat waves? My ducks brood during our heat, a humid 90sF, without any problems, but I do make sure the nests are in the coolest possible place. There have been times I've set up fans to keep the air circulating.

There's afew chook people over here whose hens only sit at night but the eggs hatch perfectly because the daytime temp is around 100f (38c). Feb heat waves, when ducklings would be in a brooder are anywhere between 104f (40c) to 118F (48c) I could bring them inside but stinkly ducklings inside for days on end....

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wow those are some hot temps. I believe a fan would be a good idea not blowing right over them but to at least circulate the air. And a large brooder so they aren't all bunched up which would make it hotter.

 

[nchls school]

Nope have never done either. I give a lot of eggs away for eating when my girls are laying good. I’ve bought eggs from members here. Runner/ Buffs then chicken eggs.I will need a new Roo one of these days my oldest is 12 and hasn’t been fertile for quite some time my youngest is an OEGB (4)and prefers the LF hens so you know he’s not fertilizing any one.

Just curious as your list is quite varied and interesting. I'm one of those that's always looking for something different.