Two eggs out of nest this morning. Brought them inside, candled, and one was cracked but with a decended air cell. It was also cold. Now in the incubator.
Also rescued another duckling that was out of the nest.
Eggs due for lockdown tomorrow already started hatching. I'm wondering if they...
I further grabbed a few eggs from the nest. I tried to mark the eggs, but when she started to sit tight it was more difficult and I eventually gave up. She must have over 20 eggs under her!
I took five, candled them, and put the one developed one in the incubator. I'll snatch another five...
Found one of the babies alone in the very wet yard, so managed to grab it (fast little bugger!) and the one still in the nest and brought them inside. This female is a great brooder, but a terrible mother so I knew I may have to do this.
Had to cull a scovie duckling. :( Worst part is that it was probably my fault for assisting too early. Feel like crap about it.
There are eggs hatching under a broodie. Two so far. I'm afraid that the eggs may be very scattered in incubation though so may have to switch them to the...
No, not with the fawn and white. Since this is already a choc variant. Those females will give the chocolate gene no matter what, and a 50% chance of blue, so you'd get both males and females in chocolate as well as in fawn.
If your black male is split to chocolate, even more colours can ensue.
Chocolate being sex linked will give you chocilate females when paired with black.
As for the fawn and white, I *think* that's a combination of both the chocolate and the blue gene. So, paired with chocolate you'd get both choc males and females, as well as fawn. Combined with black, you...
Sometime it's so hard to tell the difference between Muscovy eggs and quacker eggs.
I'd put eggs in the incubator thinking they were quackers. They were supposed to hatch by yesterday. Air cells were still high so I didn't even put them in lockdown yet. Pretty sure they're 'scovies...
I know, not very active on here lately. Going through a lot of personal bs.
Goslings are doing well, growing like three times the rate of ducklings. They both love being outside and hate me leaving them outside. As soon as I'm out of sight they start crying for me.
Moved four ducklings...