I have calls, which after reading this thread, scares me. If it doesn't go well, I'll hope for my girl setting next year. She's already done laying this year.
Hanging in there. Work has been insane this week, had inspectors in for annual certifications. Feeling a little empty... like my incubators.dang it! I hope they miraculously appear!
How are you doing GQ?
That's some army of youngsters you've got there!Hey Chikas !! Been very busy hatching, brooding, cleaning, mowing!
Here are my pics from yesterday!
Now THATS a Soggy Bottom! Fattie Dewies!
Aww. I love calls, but I need to stop adding breeds.I have calls, which after reading this thread, scares me. If it doesn't go well, I'll hope for my girl setting next year. She's already done laying this year.
I also have a few mixed or not lol. One of our flocks is made up of 4 rouens, 2 khakis and 2 mallards. So not sure what they'll be.
These are my Calls.
Uma & Sunshine
Ok, another question! 2 of my Welsh Harlie eggs are on day 17 and I worry the aircells aren't big enough. They are in a Brinsea mini, and until yesterday I was following the directions to put water in one side of the bator. However, with that the humidity is 60+%...
Would it be a good or bad idea to dry incubate? With no water in there the humidity is about 16-25%, but the RH of the room the incubator is in is 50%. I have been turning them end over end and cooling/misting them since day 10.
Side note, 13/18 of my shipped Wellies are looking great! Today is day 10 for them
mine won't eat whole peas...i have to smash them then they go wild!I'm kinda new to this site, so when I got an email saying i hadn't been on for a while I clicked the link to this thread.
I read about 5 or 6 pages before realizing it starts at the beginning....like two years ago. By then I just had to know how those turned out. About 70 pages later I clicked to come to the end.
I would have been here all day!
What a thread! It's like a sitcom, drama, lifetime movie all wrapped into one.
You're happy, you're sad. So much going on!
Very helpful too!
Although, my sis was the first to tell me about her ducks loving peas. Mine will not eat them, at all!
dunno why? fussy??
I have ducks due to hatch in about 3/4 days.
so you took the baby bunnies??? lol, just what you need....more babies! i have a baby that looks like you pic of the saxony duckling....do i need to google that...to see what it looks like grown?? i am dying to know what my babies will look like grown up....i know they are a mix-n-match group nothing pure at all... but i don't care, they are pets! beautiful pics!We had some baby bunny drama over the weekend...
Then it was incubator drama. Followed closely by mass incubator cleaning...
The incubator cleaning having been necessitated by these little cuties...
Oh, look, a Saxony duckling!
My juvies...
The bunnies went to a wildlife rescue. We would have tried to reunite them with their mom, but after hours, we were worried enough to turn them over to the rescue.
Aww, sweet baby! I always find it easier to deal with hatching if I'm too busy to watch them constantly.When we bought this new incubator, we got our first duck egg of the year on the same day. I put it in and left it, other than checking the temp on occasion. Can't say I really expected it to be fertile or even hatch so no worries. The day before it was due to hatch, I heard Mr. Magoo (girl), yelling and wanting out. She was completely hatched and partially dry.
Now with eggs coming upon their due date, I am a nervous wreck!!
