Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Kevin565]

I thought Pet Quality Call ducks were supposed to be okay layers? I bought my white call as "SQ" but she looks Pet quality to me

. I get like an egg every 4 days

 

[DutchChic]

the duckling died in my hands.
i picked him up and was getting ready to tie it off and he took his last breath

but everyone else is soo far doing good.
1 is a little less active.
but the rest are peeping and moving.

That happened the other day with me....had a buff silkie chick launch himself out of his shell, and knock another buff silkie chick out of it's egg too early. Poor baby bled out in about 30 seconds. The little turd was lucky it wasn't a Call baby he killed!

I checked on my 3 eggs, and they were SW, too. I figured that as dry as we've been. They've been rocking all day and getting no where fast. There are 2 blue fawns and a butterscotch.

Come on hatching buddy...we can do it!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

CG, no sorry. If the yolk breaks they pass away. Infection, loss of nurishment and blood loss. It's a worst case situation with a hatchling.

 

[country_girl011]

I thought Pet Quality Call ducks were supposed to be okay layers? I bought my white call as "SQ" but she looks Pet quality to me

. I get like an egg every 4 days

maybe shes breeder quality lol.
some hens are spotty layers. could also be the weather . has it been fluctuating?
my girls have stopped layin everyday . but the again i have 4 hens so i dont know who lays

That happened the other day with me....had a buff silkie chick launch himself out of his shell, and knock another buff silkie chick out of it's egg too early. Poor baby bled out in about 30 seconds. The little turd was lucky it wasn't a Call baby he killed!

I checked on my 3 eggs, and they were SW, too. I figured that as dry as we've been. They've been rocking all day and getting no where fast. There are 2 blue fawns and a butterscotch.

Come on hatching buddy...we can do it!!

=) we will be ok. we will get thru this darn SW
but i give up on 1 hatchin itself.
i mean come on even under the hen they SW
they are incapable thats my conclusion

CG, no sorry. If the yolk breaks they pass away. Infection, loss of nurishment and blood loss. It's a worst case situation with a hatchling.

i thought so . but had to ask.

 

[Kevin565]

That could be it. Thanks CG!

 

[country_girl011]

That could be it. Thanks CG!

no problem.
now that i only have 1 hen laying i get an egg every other day or so.

 

[JazminesZoo]

by now i know the difference.
a grey would be ALOT darkey.
it is a blue fawn and she has been since the day she hatched

 

[Kevin565]

Looks like taking the eggs broke the call's broody

. Bruce is still going strong. She's going to be such a good Mommy

 

[DutchChic]

I thought Pet Quality Call ducks were supposed to be okay layers? I bought my white call as "SQ" but she looks Pet quality to me

. I get like an egg every 4 days

Kevin!
I don't know...my SQ butterscotch lay very well, like 5-6 eggs a week each. The laying isn't the issue, it's the hatching that is

 

[country_girl011]

Looks like taking the eggs broke the call's broody

. Bruce is still going strong. She's going to be such a good Mommy

seems to me that ducks are soo much easier to break then chickens