The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Black Swedish would be my guess. Very calm good layers but I've never had one sit. I think its more on the individual duck.

It definitely is! - I had Runner-Ducks sitting on eggs which are definitely not supposed to go broody.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Meet Primrose & Belle! Hatched yesterday - mom is Ancona, dad is Cayuga/fwRunner . View attachment 4112523View attachment 4112524

So absolutely PRECIOUS!!!!!

 

[Jenbirdee]

Oooh so cute but they are going to poop up that blanket. I love so much mixing them up. I call them Forrest Gump ducklings. I love that you got different colors.

The floor is puppy pads and the blanket Is towel and flannel sheet covered in Saran Wrap the really clingy kind so no worries

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

From the plumage they look exactly like my Black Swedish ducks, but Black Swedish have bodies more like Pekin ducks. The duck on the second picture almost looks like the screeching Magpies i got from Ideal Poultry in 2019.

Omg the screeching magpies.

 

[Supercow]

I bet you have plenty of dolje, polje and ponor where you live. (We integrated the same words in German)
The large caves that form inside of limestone are formed mostly through "acid rain", which forms when sulphur- and nitric oxides are released somewhere and combine with rain droplets in clouds. Yes, there is the process of hyper-carbonation where Calcium-bicarbonate is formed, but that is a very slow process and won't help a weak duckling out of its shell…

Mmmm.... I could swear we were taught in school (meaning, in the stone age) that it was the CO2 + water combo doing the gradual dissolution of limestone. But for sure if you have sulphuric and nitric oxides available, that would enhance the process.

We live on the opposite side of the country, away from the Kras region, we don't have any local limestone related phenomena. We do have lots of volcanism related stuff - good soil, thermal and mineral water springs everywhere.

Yes, I was also thinking in the direction that this must be a rather slow process so letting it run for a couple of days would not make a big difference. In any case the ducklings are starting to break out now - in ONE of the incubators - the other one is just ... eerily quiet...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Omg the screeching magpies.

I still have their heritage here: Pinball Duck (from Ideal) hatched Tweedledee who hatched Laura who hatched Flipper last year. Flipper looks like her Grams but in gray and white…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Mmmm.... I could swear we were taught in school (meaning, in the stone age) that it was the CO2 + water combo doing the gradual dissolution of limestone. But for sure if you have sulphuric and nitric oxides available, that would enhance the process.

We live on the opposite side of the country, away from the Kras region, we don't have any local limestone related phenomena. We do have lots of volcanism related stuff - good soil, thermal and mineral water springs everywhere.

Yes, I was also thinking in the direction that this must be a rather slow process so letting it run for a couple of days would not make a big difference. In any case the ducklings are starting to break out now - in ONE of the incubators - the other one is just ... eerily quiet...

Have you candled the eggs in that eerie quiet incubator?
As you can clearly see i don't give a duck about lock-up or-down, i only look left and right and want to know what is going on. A momma duck doesn't follow any lock-duck procedure anyways.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I was going to agree about lock down. I lost all my screeching Maggie's to coyotes. I hated them until they got eaten, then I missed them. They sure did make some noise. I have some intriguing Ideal stuff now. They must have wandering drakes. Their birds always are great egg layers. My Cayuga is laying every day since she started. But whoever heard of a bibbed cayuga.

 

[Supercow]

Have you candled the eggs in that eerie quiet incubator?
As you can clearly see i don't give a duck about lock-up or-down, i only look left and right and want to know what is going on. A momma duck doesn't follow any lock-duck procedure anyways.

We candle every day in Week 4 but don't yet have enough experience to decide early enough in all the cases that could be critical.

The current status is:

- one egg has a super great air sac but doesn't really move
- one has a super micro air sac ?? but is moving
- one pipped on the narrow end and is now (turned around?) trying on the regular end
- one is doing well by himself
- a couple are not making and sounds or moves

It's a very very mixed bag... we now have holes in the safe parts of all the eggs in the slow incubator and will see what the morning brings.

Meanwhile 4 little ones are under the heater plate so far.