When should I put a safety hole in a call duck egg?

[Cheems]

@WVduckchick I wonder if her "pastel" duckling could be dusky pastel. I don't see an eye stripe and I think that bill is too dark to be a pastel.

btw im a he but I dont really care, but also, ive never heard of a dusky pastel? what do those look like?

 

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Should I take some more pictures?

 

[Cheems]

By the way ive gotta go, im seeing a movie right now, I will be back in a few hours to talk about this a little more

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick I wonder if her "pastel" duckling could be dusky pastel. I don't see an eye stripe and I think that bill is too dark to be a pastel.

Pastel, being the lightest series of the grey line (having 2 blue genes) color, especially at hatch, can vary, depending how the parents were created.
Mating 2 blue fawns can result in a pastel (25% chance).
Mating a blue fawn to a pastel has half a chance of producing more blue fawn, and half pastel.
Only way to be sure of pastel, is mating pastel to pastel. But if one had a blue fawn parent in recent generations, it can determine how dark the pastel color ends up. Kinda like splash chickens. Some show much more blue than others.

Dusky could be involved, but I can’t tell. I would hope an eBay seller would indicate if the dusky gene could be involved. I bet they have longer lines of pastel, making them really light. Just a guess.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Pastel, being the lightest series of the grey line (having 2 blue genes) color, especially at hatch, can vary, depending how the parents were created.
Mating 2 blue fawns can result in a pastel (25% chance).
Mating a blue fawn to a pastel has half a chance of producing more blue fawn, and half pastel.
Only way to be sure of pastel, is mating pastel to pastel. But if one had a blue fawn parent in recent generations, it can determine how dark the pastel color ends up. Kinda like splash chickens. Some show much more blue than others.

Dusky could be involved, but I can’t tell. I would hope an eBay seller would indicate if the dusky gene could be involved. I bet they have longer lines of pastel, making them really light. Just a guess.

Cool! Thanks for the clarification.

Yeah.. not all my pastels are as light as the others at hatch. That makes sense.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

btw im a he but I dont really care, but also, ive never heard of a dusky pastel? what do those look like?

Oh whoops...
Sorry. Glad you aren't offended. Don't make no difference to me if you is a he she or they. I recon I just grouped you in with the rest of the duck chatting gals here.

 

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Oh whoops...
Sorry. Glad you aren't offended. Don't make no difference to me if you is a he she or they. I recon I just grouped you in with the rest of the duck chatting gals here.

eh, I really dont mind lol, it doesnt bother me at all, I just thought id say something just so in the future you guys know so its not confusing

 

[StormsnSaugeye]

Just popping back through to say that the cost of call duck eggs sure have gone up over the last year. In 2019 I got a bunch and I think it cost me all of 20 bucks? They all hatched and were successfully raised before being given away prior to me moving. So I'm a bit surprised they're now 59 bucks.
On an unrelated note, I found a duck egg literally just laying on the green of a golf course about a month back and it externally pipped today (They would have just thrown the egg away because it was considered litter. Also of note I live in the desert)

 

[Cheems]

Just popping back through to say that the cost of call duck eggs sure have gone up over the last year. In 2019 I got a bunch and I think it cost me all of 20 bucks? They all hatched and were successfully raised before being given away prior to me moving. So I'm a bit surprised they're now 59 bucks.
On an unrelated note, I found a duck egg literally just laying on the green of a golf course about a month back and it externally pipped today (They would have just thrown the egg away because it was considered litter. Also of note I live in the desert)

I spent a lot on 2 nurture rights and like 3 batches of eggs, very expensive so im glad I was able to get support from my family, I am raising these ducklings to show and get that experience so thats why they helped out with that (im 15)

 

[Cheems]

@Overo Mare by the way, what kind of grit would you recommend? I have chick grit but I have heard that it is too large, should I get some sand? and if so, what kind of sand?