Who's Hatching Ducks? Hatch With Us!! *Page 3*

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Awww!!!! So cute!!!! Shelley, I'm sorry you didn't have a good hatch. Wish me luck - I'm into the home stretch. Remember, the original title to this post (before I changed it) was hatching chickens and ducks together. I had 25 chicks hatch today with more on the way, and my duckies are due to hatch Monday. I took a vacation day because I told them it was D-Day (Duckie Day!!!)

Congrats to all and thank you for sharing this with me.

 

[DuckyBoys]

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We are on the same day!

Some of mine already have internal pips - but no action. I did candle this morning and they were all moving - so now I just need to leave them alone.

I hate waiting!

Are you hatching call ducks too?

My first calls were all infertile! But I just stuck a bunch in, so should know in a week if these ones are gonna go the distance. Right now I have two runners that are going to be out before morning I just know it! They are trying so hard! Then I have another runner who looks to be behind these first two, and a buff goose.

I can't wait!

 

[chickenlisa]

2 baby Aussie Spots hatched today- day 26!

I have 2 more eggs in there -no pips on them yet, but I'm hopeful! These 2 are adorable- 1 light and 1 dark. I think a blue head and a green head, but not sure. I'll take pics tomorrow; they're still wet looking. They are so tiny!
Lisa

 

[LilDucky85]

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Is that early for them or are they 26 days? I'm too lazy to look it up right now, and I have a killer headache. Dang Flu!

 

[chickenlisa]

seems early to me- I was thinking 28 days. I just put them in the hatcher last night...these 2 had pips already then!

 

[LilDucky85]

Mojo Chick'n :

Ok, to stop me from touching the hatcher... I took some pics of Squishy and Spiffy.

This is the only one that halfway turned out - I have chicks in there, too. Spiffy is smaller than the chicks he hatched out with - and Squishy is three weeks old (but was still larger at hatch than Spiffy was). Spiffy is probably the tiniest ducky I've ever seen.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh75/chiknmama/chiknmamaschikns/7f289790.jpg

Ohhhh my goodness....I didn’t even realize the little guy on the bottom!!!! I was mesmerized with the beautiful one above. What kind is it?? I love the coloring! The little one is so cute, I want to steal them both! What kind is it? Call I assume?​

 

[LilDucky85]

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That could just be one of the duck eggs. Its hard to believe but one of my duck eggs are huge like that compared to the rest.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I guess technically I did. I have one little bantam BR chick that hatched today as well. I wish I knew what the problem was...it must have to do with the location of the bators

I just today set 9 scovy eggs, 24 of my duck eggs, and 2 blue american geese eggs...maybe I should move the bator?

 

[LilDucky85]

Where is it, and What kind is it?

 

[shelleyd2008]

I have 3. The one that they are in right now is a hova 1583, the other 2 bators (1 bator, 1 hatcher) are both still air LGs. They are in the spare bedroom, which also has 2 brooders with chicken chicks, and 1 brooder with quail chicks. Plus my button quails' cage is in there. I'm thinking maybe all the dust is affecting my hatches? I was getting 90%+ hatches in my still air LG last fall from my own birds' eggs. I haven't been able to hatch chickens this year to save my life, mine or shipped. I have a bit of extra luck with mine, but not much. The best chicken egg hatches I have had so far had 6 of 12 hatch and 6 of 10, both shipped eggs. One set was incubated in the hova, and hatched in an LG, the other was incubated in the LG and hatched in the LG, so I can't figure it out. I have no problems hatching shipped quail eggs, and my buttons' eggs I get about 65% which is pretty good for buttons I've heard. Any ideas?

ETA: I set all my quail eggs in the hovabator, since it is the one that has quail racks for the turner. I plan on getting rid of the LGs and getting another hova (or 2), but I can't right now