Recent content by bilbothebanty

A friend of mine has Muscovies and he had a chicken laying in the same nest as the muscovy. He sorted out the chicken eggs the best he could, but she still hatched one chick (he took it away so she wouldn't stop sitting on her own eggs). I would think it should work fine.

Were do you buy it from. I have a farm and fleet by me and a Raul king. would they have it?

Hi I am a newb to ducks. I have a mother duck setting on eggs and this morning I went in and there are at lest two babies. I am not sure what to feed them, I have chicks do I just give the ducklings the same feed as the chicks? Also she is in a pen with five other ducks should I separate her...

how much suger to water ratio did you use. I also have had two chicks die after acting dopy and now i have one that is starting to act dopy. I raelly do not want to loss another I only have four now.

Here are some pictures of some of the babies The fist chick, we named it Edison Two of the chick mostly dry and in there box, front to back: Alva and Edison

Thanks all I do have some sponges in there but maybe i should put more in? I do not want to open the incubator to often though. Also thank you for telling me how long it takes chicks to hatch that helps a lot. i was getting worried.

I have at lest one egg that has been pipped for about 11 hours and I have not seen any significant change. What should I do? One of my eggs has hatched and it started pipping at the same time as the other one, but it only took 7 hours I have seen movement but no progress. My humidity is at 53%...

Hatch day and i already have one hatched. It hatched this morning around 8:00. Three more are pipped and wiggling. I am having some trouble keeping the humidity up, if any one has advise on that it would be nice. Also how long do you have to leave the chicks in the incubator?

Perhaps you could put the sponge in a shallow pan of water, so that the sponge can keep taking up moisture? I have a still air incubator that has a little water tray in the bottom that I have been keeping full that has kept humidity around 45-50% the whole time. I am having trouble getting...

Thanks for the advise I will try that.

Five days left and i definitely have 11 fertile eggs I am so happy I can not wait.

I have 11 eggs in my incubator. Seven of them are due to hatch the 23 and 4 are due to hatch the 26. Should I keep turning the second clutch of eggs after the 21st or not and will the humidity effect them. Please let me know what i should do, this is my first time hatching eggs and i just...