Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Wulfandwyn]

This was in the incubator when I woke up.

 

[Wulfandwyn]

I might have to get Anconas if I ever run out of Muscovies. They are beautiful. The geese are beautiful too!

ok Marty here you go.

Ancona Juveniles - 1 drake 2 ducks



Blue Sebbie Gander (late 2012 hatch)



Another blue belonging to a trio we are picking up this weekend



New Saddleback arriving next week




some of the Buff Dewlaps

 

[ChristineR]

I might have to get Anconas if I ever run out of Muscovies. They are beautiful. The geese are beautiful too!

I love my Anconas. I like the unique patterns and different colors - so pretty. I'm really excited for next spring when I start collecting fertile eggs from the ones I've decided to keep for breeding. I can't wait to see what will hatch.

 

[JulieNKC]

So excited! Going to pick up a pair of mandarins tomorrow.

 

[Marty1876]

So excited! Going to pick up a pair of mandarins tomorrow.

Aww, I'm so jealous!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Very cool Julie, ours all in full color again and lots of weeeep weeeeep going on from the wood duck male. If they are full flight they will love having tree limbs for perching on. Our flight pen has lots of old logs, stumps and branches in it.

 

[JulieNKC]

Thanks! Celtic, I will be keeping them in a 10' x 6' enclosed pen. Will a trio of d'uccles and a pair of pigeons be ok in there with them? Any special kind of feed? My birds are getting gb grower, soaked oats, scratch, and sprouts right now. Anything they need different? I'm so excited to finally get a pair! They are this years juvies, will they breed in the spring or will it be another year? Do they roost in nestboxes or need a coop? Hubby is so excited he's trying to build a nestbox tonight, lol. If they'll sleep in it I'll tell him to go ahead.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

We feed game bird, millet, and oats. They have grasses growing in the pens that they eat, and we add minnows to the pool for them. Ornamentals dont like being with other birds, they do best in aviaries with their own kind. They can be held in a pen with other birds, but long term I would build them something separate. 10x10' 20x20' and so on are common sizes. 6' high but 8' high being better as the love to fly around. We have the perching tree limbs and branches and a covered feed house to keep the feed from being rained on. They are outside 24/7 unless we have a hurricane coming, then its into cages and inside they go.

I believe most in cold climates provide over head and wind break shelters for them during the winter. Think three sided shelter with a branch to get up on. Lots of pen and aviary ideas over in the ornamental section too to drool over and get ideas from.

They will breed in 2013, they dont however always have successful clutches like domestics. They have to be happy to raise ducklings well.

Here you go. Click it to enlarge and give it to hubby to build them a good nest box.

 

[JulieNKC]

We feed game bird, millet, and oats. They have grasses growing in the pens that they eat, and we add minnows to the pool for them. Ornamentals dont like being with other birds, they do best in aviaries with their own kind. They can be held in a pen with other birds, but long term I would build them something separate. 10x10' 20x20' and so on are common sizes. 6' high but 8' high being better as the love to fly around. We have the perching tree limbs and branches and a covered feed house to keep the feed from being rained on. They are outside 24/7 unless we have a hurricane coming, then its into cages and inside they go.

I believe most in cold climates provide over head and wind break shelters for them during the winter. Think three sided shelter with a branch to get up on. Lots of pen and aviary ideas over in the ornamental section too to drool over and get ideas from.

They will breed in 2013, they dont however always have successful clutches like domestics. They have to be happy to raise ducklings well.

Here you go. Click it to enlarge and give it to hubby to build them a good nest box.

Great, thank you! The d'uccles are only 3 months old. I'll build a new pen for them within a month or so, before they get to breeding age and bug the mandies. The top is covered with a tarp already, and I plastic the sides for winter. Thanks, I've been browsing through the ornamental section to get ideas all day too.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I will look for the name of the netting we use, its holding up well to tropical storms winds and high UV and is not expensive. The bag is stored so will send you the name when I pull it out.