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Did you hatch that one out? or was it from a feedstore/hatchery?
Just curious.
meri
A friend has Rouens and she got a 100% hatch rate, gave me four. 3 were drakes
Bummer on three being boys.
I have call duck eggs in the hatcher and I need girls badly. I lost all of my girls except one, and some of the eggs are from one of the girls I lost. I had one of her babies hatch last week - but I think it's a boy. One other almost made it, but it died after zip and being half out
I'm pretty sure it was a girl judging from feet and bill colors.
I also have 7 goose eggs in the bator, and I hope they hatch and that I get at last two girls and a boy. The rest can't stay anyway, so I don't mind what they are
as long as they live and are healthy, I wont have a problem finding homes for them.
I have noticed on the "one stripe / two stripe" rule that a lot of the rouens don't have two complete stripes - but when they do you can be sure. Sometimes it'll show up better when they're wet, too.
If it is a definate two stripe, though, you can be sure it's a rouen, and if a definate stripe (and a dot), you can be sure it's a Mallard - the fuzziness of some of their markings make it harder to tell right off.
I wonder if the more ambiguous markings have anything to do with male or female? hmmm... something to study on....
meri
