Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

70- Precious little ducky! What will you name it? How about chicken.

JZ-Where you at girl. I see you creepin'.

 

[country_girl011]

thanks qj.
ill lower my humidity a little.

 

[stillmecle]

Ok I am back. I took down the fence between my ducks. So they are all together now. I will have to watch them and see what happens. My sister was just here too so I had to visit with her for a bit She brought me some flowers for Valentines. She is such a nice little sis.

 

[stillmecle]

SM, this is taken from Pete's thread:

The 2 ruptured air cells eggs were incubated vertically until Day 21 then kept at an angle of about 60-70 degrees until pipping. By Day 21 the amount of free fluid had reduced and was only visible at the lowest point of the egg. As the fluid was not contained within the membrane both eggs lost weight at an increased rate and the humidity had to be raised to compensate. On internal pipping the aircells appeared abnormally large and weight loss was at 19%. The outline was irregular but both were laid horizontally for pipping as there was no free fluid visible.

thank you. This helps. I have to count my days but I think I am close to day 21 now.

 

[stillmecle]

Ducks or chickens? If you have silkie ducks, then i am jealous!

Silkie Chickens, I haven't heard of silkie ducks!! I am going to have to check some out. Where did you get them?

 

[Iain Utah]

Hope you guys are up for a couple more pictures from me. The first is Squeak, my favorite cayuga, who will jump to get into your hand to be picked up. The other picture is of my geese, who have been acting weird lately. They came to the house this afternoon and heard the ducklings through the window, which got their attention.

 

[stillmecle]

Here is a pic of my mine incubator. AT the top of the incubator is 4 goose eggs and one of my buffs egg.
Next two rows are my Buff/Silver Appleyard eggs, then my Welsh Harlequin. Next is the Silver Appleyard and the Cayugas that have hearts and then the last row are the eggs that I don't see anything at all yet. They are Appleyards and Cayugas.

 

[stillmecle]

My ducks are what....2 months old and they don't quack. They just make this raspy little peep. Sometimes it sounds like they are barking. Maybe they learned to bark from when they lived in the bathtub and the dogs would bark at them. Wouldn't that be funny.... a barking duck...

 

[stillmecle]

Gotta go for a bit. I will be back later.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

OMG you will LOVE them! Holderreads has them! $15 apiece.

Silkie Chickens, I haven't heard of silkie ducks!! I am going to have to check some out. Where did you get them?