Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[DutchChic]

Yeah, CG!!! Looking good!

Ok, I'm seriously gonna have to make some pineapple upside down cake! It's funny but you all had me thinking about it while I was at the grocery store the other day....shoulda got the stuff and made one!

It's one of my favorites, too!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Hooray for Easter ducklings and good food!

Hubby's making prime rib and peanut butter cookies.

I've got one pip so far out of my 4/11 hatch. Actually two, but the Silkie Duck died in the shell.

Please

for the rest of my duckies. They are all pre-sold... or at least that's what I told hubby.

 

[country_girl011]

Thanks guys
8 babies out now.

So in the span of just a little over an hour 7 babies have popped out

 

[Iain Utah]

Quackers....

CG:

Of my cayugas, I have one egg internally pipped, 4 working on internally pipping, and my 5th egg is still trying to turn. And my goodness my toulouse baby on day 25 is really going strong at turning.

 

[country_girl011]

Sigh
Finally no more stress
8 babies out and moving around
7 babies with heads and necks out finishin up their yolks
Te babies need to dry fast they are playing heck with the eggs

 

[Marty1876]

Need other opinions....Yours

So no turkeys, so I pulled at a previously active egg, and pipped it. Check inside, found a beak, and pipped that area. This turkey, along with 2 pheasent eggs, contain dead offspring. Perfectly fully formed, and dead.

So, looked like white membriane - shrink wrap. Should I open all the other eggs, or wait? The one I opened was dead, but yolk wasn't absorbed. Definately dead though. Ditto the pheasents, but no shrink wrap there. Veins nod full of blood, either. On the verge of ready.

 

[country_girl011]

Marty i say open & c

 

[country_girl011]

the 8 roudy babies out of shell. sorry hard to get a pic every one is piling up .


the 7 beautiful babies still in their shells

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, if you found shrinkwrap and it's hatching day.... open them up!

 

[Iain Utah]

Question: Can you slip hatchlings back under broody? (No idea here... just seems like it would be ok)