Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[bakingintherain]

ok, if i don't find anything else i will be sure to contact you

If you don't get a better offer, I can sell you some babies. Just PM me, if you want. They get them the fist Friday in March, so hatch will be @ MR 29. I'm giving them 6 eggs ea K-6 (just a few days worth) so I'd expect 2 dozen,+ since I know the eggs rock, and I'm setting up and watching over the bators for them. I will do my own flock hatching, so I'm gonna sell the extas.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Sorry she had trouble. I've never done it any other way, and I've had ducks for decades now. Wonder what california ducks do??

You make a valid point. At this point, I'm probably going to just stay the course and get lights installed for next year. I've got modifications to make to their night pen anyway. Somehow we effed up the slope of both the ground and the roof of the run, so they're draining the wrong direction. That has made for muddy ducks and more work for me this wet season. Argh.

 

[bakingintherain]

ick water is the one thing we have an excess of on my property, it doesn't matter which may me try to slope it grrr

You make a valid point. At this point, I'm probably going to just stay the course and get lights installed for next year. I've got modifications to make to their night pen anyway. Somehow we effed up the slope of both the ground and the roof of the run, so they're draining the wrong direction. That has made for muddy ducks and more work for me this wet season. Argh.

 

[bakingintherain]

it snowed here tonight ick ick ick, but i guess it is ok for this weekend we need some out-of-state business! brrrrr it is cold

 

[Marty1876]

my one duck hen hasn't started laying yet born memorial day weekend last year, and the chickens started laying for about 2 weeks in late october and then stopped even with light

Does your duck happen to have one curly feather in his tail, kinda sticking up? Does he talk with a loud clear quack, or a sorta muffiled kinda quack noise? Boys have feathers, and don't quack right. that would certainly explaiin the lack of eggs, especially if its a peking. They ought to be laying..... Only the unusual ducks don't lay too much...

 

[Marty1876]

You make a valid point. At this point, I'm probably going to just stay the course and get lights installed for next year. I've got modifications to make to their night pen anyway. Somehow we effed up the slope of both the ground and the roof of the run, so they're draining the wrong direction. That has made for muddy ducks and more work for me this wet season. Argh.

Eeewww.... what a drag!

We don't use fancy lights, just a shop light, or anything that hangs and won't catch fire, with a 25 Watt bulb. I'm going to change to low light high efficiency bulbs next winter.

 

[Marty1876]

it snowed here tonight ick ick ick, but i guess it is ok for this weekend we need some out-of-state business! brrrrr it is cold

Go eat a cupcake, that'll help! LOL

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

ick water is the one thing we have an excess of on my property, it doesn't matter which may me try to slope it grrr

I live near enough to Seattle to understand that. I just want the water to drain into the marshy part of the property rather than trying to pool near the garage. French drain and structural modifications. Ooh. Can't wait. But I'll be happy that the ducks are happy.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Eeewww.... what a drag!

We don't use fancy lights, just a shop light, or anything that hangs and won't catch fire, with a 25 Watt bulb. I'm going to change to low light high efficiency bulbs next winter.

Do you have it on a timer? Sounds like an easy addition compared to the other work we have cut out for us. It's going to be another spring full of heavy work.

Last spring we had to re-do the entire front yard because the county made us put our new drainfield out there. Then we built the duck house, pen and secondary run. This coming spring it's going to be fixing our problems with the duck enclosure and building two hoophouses. I'd like to go a year without heavy projects, but life just doesn't work that way...

 

[bakingintherain]

the pekins i know are males and i have one of each of the black swedish (yes she is very loud compared to the others) hmmm... that is strange i was told they probably wouldn't lay till their first spring? maybe she is laying and just hiding them but i can't imagine where and she definatly isn't sitting on them

Does your duck happen to have one curly feather in his tail, kinda sticking up? Does he talk with a loud clear quack, or a sorta muffiled kinda quack noise? Boys have feathers, and don't quack right. that would certainly explaiin the lack of eggs, especially if its a peking. They ought to be laying..... Only the unusual ducks don't lay too much...