Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[CelticOaksFarm]

Iain not in baby fuzz unless you vent sex them. You will know when the adult SA colors start coming in.

 

[country_girl011]

they found the hay field





amelia saying hello to the big ducks.
she than ran back to aby telling her all about the ducks by the fence,





and fly

 

[Marty1876]

Wow, they are freaking adorable! I can't wait to have goose babies!

Pics of my Silver Apple, front & back. Note the thick stripe down back of neck goes continuously into the black on its back.



And since I was in picture taking mode, here are two of my toulouse babies:

I can't believe how big they are getting! So cute.

they found the hay field





amelia saying hello to the big ducks.
she than ran back to aby telling her all about the ducks by the fence,





and fly

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

qj sorry i logged off early lastnight.
i convinced the DB to go home early
and spent a few hours talking to prince charming

Love is in the air!

Good morning, hatching friends! I feel like a million bucks after sleeping for over 9 hours last night! Man, I needed that! Assisted hatching is stressful and draining, but so worth it!! Here are my new babies after 24 hours. I swear these guys (and my last set of ducklings) have a different level of imprinting with me since I hatched them all out by hand. I love them all so much!!

Yes, If you could PM the number to me that would be great. I may have to call them later in the month and say Where the **** are My ducklings! They said when I ordered that I should have them in April. After I paid they had a bunch of excuses as to why they could not give me a date, so I'm holding them to the mid - April thing and if the end of April gets here and they have not notified me I'm calling!

Hey everyone! I have been a busy lady. I wish I could go back and read all posts from the last couple days but man, it would take me a week. LOL
I candled my 2 dozen red/roux dilute quail eggs from thequaillady and only 8 were viable. Pshh....Go figure. They are due to hatch the end of next week. I have had the worst luck with her eggs. I also just set 1 dozen Ancona eggs from Boondocker lines yesterday. Yay!



My 4 fertile quail eggs made it. 3 english whites and a rosetta tux.



And I picked up my Anconas!!! This was just after a swim. They are so cute.

I love your Anconas! I need some!

Snapped a pic of the girl/boy.

See the ring around the neck?

I am gonna call that SA pat or shim until further notice.

Ducks shipped, geese not shipped, will try to get them out tomorrow.
Oh and picked up a box of duck eggs shipped in, more SA to add another bloodline to our flock. Sent 14, all in tact, stable air cells too.
All of the auto water nipples came in for the chickens and rabbits. The new auto bowls have shipped so this week will be the week to run PVC. No more worries on hot days of water running out.

Busy day, huh?

Yay! Baby geese are hatching! But theres alot of shrink wraping!

from the three eggs, 1 died, and the other 2 are doing great. And get this!... All girls! Whats up with me haching all of 1 sex.... Geez!!

Happy for your two!

Pics of my Silver Apple, front & back. Note the thick stripe down back of neck goes continuously into the black on its back.



And since I was in picture taking mode, here are two of my toulouse babies:

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks, guys! I love my new babies. Marty, just you wait until you hatch your goslings. You will love them more than ducklings. And that is saying something!

 

[Iain Utah]

CG, looks like a fabulous spring day where you are and your birds look very happy. Great pics!

 

[ChristineR]

Hi all! I haven't been on here in awhile, so I'm not going to even attempt to catch up--I'd be here all night. Lots of cute pics just posted, though!

I'm a little worried about a couple of my approx week old ducklings. One of them is the one that has the crooked beak, but I think I'm just going to have to wait and see about him. The other one has something weird going on with his neck. I just noticed it tonight when I got home from work. It's hard to describe and I didn't get a very good pic (it's uploading from my phone right now). It's like he's holding his neck offset, like off to one side. Does anyone know what that could be?

I'll post the pic as soon as it's done uploading.

 

[ChristineR]

Another weird thing I noticed tonight is that a couple of them have skin peeling off the bottoms of their feet. What could that be? My daughter is on spring break and she was helping take care of them today. She went a little overboard on giving them water. Their brooder was soaked when I got home. Could it be from that?

 

[Iain Utah]

Christine, sounds like wry neck. I had a duckling get it at 8 days old. Fixed it with a polvisol drop mixed with kale 3x per day for one week.

 

[Marty1876]

Thanks, guys! I love my new babies. Marty, just you wait until you hatch your goslings. You will love them more than ducklings. And that is saying something!

That would have to be some very cute and charming goslings! I wove my wittle waddly duckies! I can't imagine loving anything more than them in the poultry world, but I'm excited for baby geese too, and am certainly prepared to adore them.

Did you know geese are the oldest domesticated poultry?