Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Nebraskagirl]

Hubs might be cranky if he finds out, but here he is with our fist hatched gosling this season...


And this morning's fuzzies, less the gosling who's going to rest in the incubator for a while....

I love these pics! Thanks for sharing them!

 

[qwackers]

I'm calling you NG now it's quicker! Yep I will keep you posted. My other half is down there at the moment trying to encourage no.3 out! So sweet all I can hear is, come on, you can do it, one more big push, neatly there! Hehehee bless him.

GQ that gosling is adorable! Huge and cute! What do you have in your other selection of hatched fuzzies?

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I'm calling you NG now it's quicker! Yep I will keep you posted. My other half is down there at the moment trying to encourage no.3 out! So sweet all I can hear is, come on, you can do it, one more big push, neatly there! Hehehee bless him.

GQ that gosling is adorable! Huge and cute! What do you have in your other selection of hatched fuzzies?

The most recent hatch is 2 rouen, 1 swedish duckling, 3 mystery chicks with one more working on it.

I've got some rouens and welsh harlequins, plus one or two appleyards from the previous hatch.

And 7 Icelandic chicks.

And a bunch that are about a week from hatch...

 

[Iain Utah]

Hey Quackers.

Congrats on the dewlap African gosling and all your hatches. Sounds like you are getting your bator kinks all worked out!

 

[Nebraskagirl]

I'm calling you NG now it's quicker! Yep I will keep you posted. My other half is down there at the moment trying to encourage no.3 out! So sweet all I can hear is, come on, you can do it, one more big push, neatly there! Hehehee bless him.

GQ that gosling is adorable! Huge and cute! What do you have in your other selection of hatched fuzzies?

NG sounds cool! I swear if you quack at them while hatching it helps them out. I did it to both of the girls and they picked up the pace quite a bit.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Hey Quackers.

Congrats on the dewlap African gosling and all your hatches. Sounds like you are getting your bator kinks all worked out!

I'm so thrilled to finally hatch an African! It's such a sweet baby and sounds so different from the Poms I've been hatching!

I don't know if I shared here, but even with my electrical issue and having the cabinet go down to 77, I candled and only had to throw out 6 out of 120! My only bator issues now are needing more bators... and in a week, I'll be crying that I need more eggies.

NG sounds cool! I swear if you quack at them while hatching it helps them out. I did it to both of the girls and they picked up the pace quite a bit.

I usually take a baby from the previous batch if I have one and put it next to the bator window. All the eggs seem to respond to hearing another of their kind. Otherwise, I sing a stupid song to mine:

Baby ducks,
Baby ducks,
Quack, quack, quack, quack,
Baby ducks.

Baby ducks,
Fuzzy butts,
Quack,quack,quack, quack,
Baby ducks.

If I really have baby fever, I'll sing it in french, even though I'm not sure my french is correct:

Petits canards,
Petits canards,
Coin, coin, coin, coin,
Petits canards...

There, I finally admitted it. I sing goofy songs to my eggs in lockdown.

 

[Ashmaxwell]

my ducks are hatching 2 days early and I don't know why!! I really hope that they are going to be ok since they are hatching 2 days early!! But I guess it all has to do with mother nature. I guess they know when they are ready to come out of that shelll!!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

We did our chicken tractor for the meaties today! Glad to see them move outside!


We were also visited by a large barn owl tonight.

 

[qwackers]

I'm so thrilled to finally hatch an African! It's such a sweet baby and sounds so different from the Poms I've been hatching!

I don't know if I shared here, but even with my electrical issue and having the cabinet go down to 77, I candled and only had to throw out 6 out of 120! My only bator issues now are needing more bators... and in a week, I'll be crying that I need more eggies.
I usually take a baby from the previous batch if I have one and put it next to the bator window. All the eggs seem to respond to hearing another of their kind. Otherwise, I sing a stupid song to mine:

Baby ducks,
Baby ducks,
Quack, quack, quack, quack,
Baby ducks.

Baby ducks,
Fuzzy butts,
Quack,quack,quack, quack,
Baby ducks.

If I really have baby fever, I'll sing it in french, even though I'm not sure my french is correct:

Petits canards,
Petits canards,
Coin, coin, coin, coin,
Petits canards...

There, I finally admitted it. I sing goofy songs to my eggs in lockdown. 

That song is amazing hahaaa!
Woke up to find egg 3 had popped out and as we were watching and cheering it on egg 4 popped out! Egg 5 is working on it. Phew day 31 and we still aren't done!
The guy I got the eggs from said they were Indian runners but I'm jot sure, though I've not seen babies in real life but don't look how I expected other than the yellow one. Il put some pics up later and you can diagnose!

 

[qwackers]

Good luck ashmaxwell!

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Ok here are the 4 duckies. Just one yellow who's bill is bigger than the others. The rest have black feet and yellow lines by their eyes and on their wings. Could they be appleyard? Or just funny runners?!

Any tips for vent sexing too as we'd like to name them? Tried on the yellow one and nothing popped out so assumed female but apparently if your not doing it right they all look female!