Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Goin Quackrrs]

Here's what's happening over here:

18 duck eggs lock down tomorrow. I have a goose egg that locks down on Friday, I think. Must consult calendar that has so many notes on it that I have to look really hard for the info I want.

My cayugas have quit laying. My pekins have quit laying. Most of my layer flock has quit laying. My runners never started laying. What gives?

That said, I think I'm ready to rearrange breeding pens. Think I'm going to 86 the pekins since the boy hasn't been doing his job and they've quit laying anyway.

Going to move the cayugas back into the layer pen as well.

Going to remove a divider and put all the runners in with the silver drake and the khaki drake.

Going to put the saxony trio where the pekins were.

I'm going to have fluffy butts one way or another!

 

[Iain Utah]

Quackers, good luck with your latest lockdown! if all else fails, I can send you some of my duck eggs. I've set some ancona eggs to avoid future solo goslings like the one scheduled to hatch this weekend and every single egg is super fertile and growing strong.

By the way, anyone ever get a mini sized duck egg from their normally regular egg sized layers? The teeny egg I got this morning is tripping me out. I've gotten a couple double yolkers when my girls first started laying last year, but nothing like this before.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Quackers, good luck with your latest lockdown! if all else fails, I can send you some of my duck eggs. I've set some ancona eggs to avoid future solo goslings like the one scheduled to hatch this weekend and every single egg is super fertile and growing strong.

By the way, anyone ever get a mini sized duck egg from their normally regular egg sized layers? The teeny egg I got this morning is tripping me out. I've gotten a couple double yolkers when my girls first started laying last year, but nothing like this before.

I'd love some eggs, but I need to slow down until I get the cabinet tested. I don't want to put anything valuable in it until I've run a couple practice batches.

I've gotten tiny eggs before, but not sure if it was from the youngsters or not. They're not seperated by age.

 

[VikiG]

Thanks guys, I've checked a few of them & still no internal pipping signs on candling but there is still some movement so where there's life there's still hope I guess...
The drake is a Swedish blue. Which I confess to not even knowing until I saw photos on here. I thought he was just a random cross bred drake!

 

[Marty1876]

Quackers, good luck with your latest lockdown! if all else fails, I can send you some of my duck eggs. I've set some ancona eggs to avoid future solo goslings like the one scheduled to hatch this weekend and every single egg is super fertile and growing strong.

By the way, anyone ever get a mini sized duck egg from their normally regular egg sized layers? The teeny egg I got this morning is tripping me out. I've gotten a couple double yolkers when my girls first started laying last year, but nothing like this before.

Yes, sometimes (back when all my layer ducks were alive-pre dog attack) I would get little ping pong ball eggs. Usually they were dudes....no yolk, but now and then it would have a little tiny yolk. I like to feed those to my kids.

Baby Girl, the poor dog attack victem, died in her sleep the night I got home from Texas. (found her yesterday) Poor girl, she appeared to have simply expired in her sleep. I guess it was all just too much for the poor girl. The good news is I have lots of regular buff eggs coming in to replace her with, if I ever decide to set any. I just don't want to be up to my bum in goslings espeecially. I kind of like the 10 I have now (two trios and 2 pairs) but DH wants more buffs, but to eat them.

As you all know, once you've hatched and broodered them, (and goslings are soo sweet and affectionate) that its siimply bloody hard to consider such a thing.

Glad to see everyone else seems to be doing basically well. I've beenn gone since early last friday morning, and am just checking in today, after an exhausting 15 hour drive (in one day) back home from South Texas where I picked up a devestatingly awesome doeling, who's grandmother hold the milk production record for Nigerian Dwarf Goats. (Fawn, fron Jobi)

 

[psue]

Yes, sometimes (back when all my layer ducks were alive-pre dog attack) I would get little ping pong ball eggs. Usually they were dudes....no yolk, but now and then it would have a little tiny yolk. I like to feed those to my kids.

Baby Girl, the poor dog attack victem, died in her sleep the night I got home from Texas. (found her yesterday) Poor girl, she appeared to have simply expired in her sleep. I guess it was all just too much for the poor girl. The good news is I have lots of regular buff eggs coming in to replace her with, if I ever decide to set any. I just don't want to be up to my bum in goslings espeecially. I kind of like the 10 I have now (two trios and 2 pairs) but DH wants more buffs, but to eat them.

As you all know, once you've hatched and broodered them, (and goslings are soo sweet and affectionate) that its siimply bloody hard to consider such a thing.

Glad to see everyone else seems to be doing basically well. I've beenn gone since early last friday morning, and am just checking in today, after an exhausting 15 hour drive (in one day) back home from South Texas where I picked up a devestatingly awesome doeling, who's grandmother hold the milk production record for Nigerian Dwarf Goats. (Fawn, fron Jobi)

Sorry to hear about Baby Girl. Did you have a good trip?
I have fertile Embden eggs if you would rather have those to eat. I need to get my KS permit but we are NPIP now, so it's something I need to sit down and do anyway

Currently all goose eggs are going into the bator every Friday. Not everyone is getting the job done yet.

 

[Marty1876]

I've only set sebbie goose eggs so far, but I have about 10 buff eggs waiting to go in. I also set 3 sebbie eggs I traded some of mine for, and 2 of 3 are fertile and growing. They are saddlebacks, so nice interesting coloring coming to me hopefully. He wanted splashes, and was content with gray/whites.

I don't want any embdens, thanks psue. Had them as a kid, done with them forever. I will probobly go ahead and sit some buffs, and just pay somebody else to dress the ones I don't keep. I will just have to be a standoffish brooder, so it won't break my heart.

 

[psue]

I've only set sebbie goose eggs so far, but I have about 10 buff eggs waiting to go in. I also set 3 sebbie eggs I traded some of mine for, and 2 of 3 are fertile and growing. They are saddlebacks, so nice interesting coloring coming to me hopefully. He wanted splashes, and was content with gray/whites.

I don't want any embdens, thanks psue. Had them as a kid, done with them forever. I will probobly go ahead and sit some buffs, and just pay somebody else to dress the ones I don't keep. I will just have to be a standoffish brooder, so it won't break my heart.

ok, just figured a few for freezer camp would be easier if they weren't outta your own flock

I'm odd and dont get stand offish in the brooder or anything till I've decided who's leaving on butchering day. Sometimes the final decision is based completly on their personality. No meaness allowed here.

 

[Marty1876]

I'm with you, the geese are the first ones that ever gave me any pause whatsoever. I always treat everyone with love and care and kindness regardless, but I can see I'd just have to step back from the geese. They just weasil their way into you heart, and none of mine have been mean yet. (OK, one sebbie has it in for our Tom turkey, but he's ok with the people and other birds)

I understand, but if I decided I liked the embdens now too, I'd be stuck thinking I wanted to "maintain" another small pure flock..... You know how it goes!

Oh, the Texas/Oklahoma trip was productive, and I have 3 more goats now.

Thanks so much for your generous spirit and willingness to share. Let me know if you want some buff dewlap eggs from 1 year olds. (fertility untested so far, but I have 10 to put in the bator now)

 

[psue]

I'll let you know. As Louis is one I'm hoping he'll get it right soon. Still waiting on my sebbies to start but as the girls are one and our weather has been wonky they should soon. I probally will have gooslings comming out of my ears before June