Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[country_girl011]

CG: At the risk of Pi$$ing you off... Get it over with.

(you know what "it" is.)

can u pm me.
i just need to talk and vent right now.

 

[Marty1876]

No eggs. (Yea, right???)

I have 15 Anconas, some poofy top ducks (what are they called again?) and some Indian runner babies. My mom is going to visit my sister, who lives about 15 miles from Estes hatchery. She's picking them up. My babies hatch this coming Wednesday, and for once, I'm not on duty!

It'll be the easiest hatch ever.

Iain, sorry, didn't see that! I need to call them again, becasue she never did e-mail me. She said they'd be good though.

 

[Marty1876]

can u pm me.
i just need to talk and vent right now.

 

[Iain Utah]

Congrats, Marty!!!

 

[country_girl011]

thanks marty

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

can u pm me.
i just need to talk and vent right now.

Yes! Let me start a new one though.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

OK, down to 1 duckling!! Their all quiters except the one thats in there now. And get this.... ALL boys!! What the heck! I'm not getting more eggs from her I don't think.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Morning all.
Dutch the swinging temps have been rough here for eggs from the calls too.
Woke up to some new EE and OE chicks this morning. Half the geese have internally pipped and half of those have externally pipped. The rest are pushing hard to get pipped internally. Ducklings are hatching all over, they should be done by this afternoon.

I just imagine popcorn when you say they're hatching all over!

Hello. It has been a very very busy week for me. I went out and worked in the property where my horse and goat is. Did a lot of cleaning up from the winter out there. I also have been cleaning up around my house and the ducks house. Yesterday was hard on me.
I had to cull a beautiful runner baby because it had a heart prblem. I hate having to do that. Also yesterday, when I finally got to come in the house after working all day outside,. I went out to look at the baby chickens and ducks on my front porch, and I found Tut in a corner all curled up. Tut was my Blue Breda Polish chicken that was so cute and comical and who I planned on finally keeping something I hatched. Well somehow his neck got broke. He was still alive but you could tell it was broken. Sad day. I am now bidding on some more Breda eggs and I plan on winning them no matter what.
I think I have my phone fixed so you are going to be getting a lot of pics off and on today...... I have a lot to share. My BEIs hatched, my EEs hatched, some other ducks I hatched for a Guy I know hatched but Sebbie is still thinking about making its grand appearance.

I'm sorry about Tut and your runner.

It's so hard to cull a baby. Guess I'd better get used to it, it's part of hatching.

I'm waaaaay behind and looking forward to your photos!

Morning guys.

My last 2 wonderful babies (wrong way ancona and SA) are doing great with the others. Speaking of naming babies... I need to find names for these special guys. I tell ya the SA is different than the rest in that it acts more like a baby gosling towards me than a baby duck. Is it that the SA is the youngest? Or that I hatched it out completely with a fair amount of skill? Or is it the breed? Holding that one makes my heart melt.

Today is day 28 for my goosies. My africans are shadowing in the aircell and my toulouse are pulsing the membranes. I expect the africans to start internally pipping later today, but at the rate the toulouse are going, it will be sometime tomorrow for them. I am guessing the africans are on schedule for a day 30 hatch, and the toulouse are looking like a day 31-32 hatch.

Wrong way:


SA:

I suspect that my Beaker has maybe started laying. Not sure. Someone has made a nest that I just noticed. It's amazing how I can miss 4 eggs in such a small space..but those mallards sure cover things up good.


Utah: Love the SA. It's just like mine was! I hope it's not.. confused.. like mine is.

DG: Where are you girl! I want to know how that baby is doing!

Wow! Wasn't Beaker one of the first ducklings on this thread? It can't have been so long ago!

Well, little Oswald passed....

... I'm kinda happy though, he peeped like he was in pain most o the night. Now I can relax, and wait for the rest to come.

I'm sorry for your loss, but I understand your being relieved that his suffering is over.

Candled your rouens again today. Out of all my shipped eggs, yours were the only ones with 100% fertility!

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Where'd everbodys go?

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Aww, I'm sorry about the chick. I Have another pip I think!!! I'm not opening the bator to check though!! I Promise!.... But my bator is leaking water at the bottem I noticed!! Maybe thats why my humidity sucks so bad!

Next time you clean it out, check really close. Even a pinhole in the tray will mess things up.

Sorry I just disappeared earlier. As I was typing my last post, my gelding got his foot in the barbed wire fence and tried to cut it off. I can't get the bleeding to stop so have the vet on his way

OMG! That would give me a heart attack and I know nothing of horses other than that I apparently suck as a rider.

Yeah, it does. So does anyone else have "holes" in the bottom of their bator?

Never seen a leak and I'd better not. They're nearly new!!!

Sorry, DG. I agree with QJ, it was a great learning experience for you. Oswald served a purpose... to teach you how to help the future babies better.

Dutch! OUCH!! If it makes ya feel better, last fall my horse was running to me from the back of his pasture, and midway to me, he put his foot through a metal drain pipe that was just under ground. He looked like a race horse that broke its front leg the way he went down at a full run. He tore his entire front right quarter off his front right hoof, leaving only one layer of fascia before coffin bone, as well as tearing the ligaments that attach at coronary band. He was in our medical paddock next to house for a month with almost daily vet visits for treatment. But he recovered 100%!! I'm thinking super positive thoughts about your boy. Please keep us updated!!!

DG, yes. A gelding is a castrated male horse.

DG... remember: lockdown means don't touch even if you need a straightjacket to keep your hands off!

60-70%

Aim for 70%. I don't think lower than 70 can have a very good outcome.