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I have a pen with chickens and ducks... I use nipple drinkers on 5 gallon buckets. The nipples I bought off of eBay and the buckets are from home demo. Works great... Every now and then I fill some pans of water for the ducks to play in, but otherwise they are "pondless" ducks.

I'll start out by saying I've raised baby ****s for years... both ones that I've bought and ones that I've hatched from my own flock... so I'm not new to ducks :-) I am however new to this problem! I bought 4 Khaki Campbell ducklings at the farm store last weekend (a new breed to me). They...

Hello! These eggs are not refrigerated. I keep them in a cool room of the house and turn them a couple times a day. I keep them for hatching myself, too, but I've run out of space in my incubators... My last batch of 20 eggs I put in had 100% fertility, so these should be pretty fertile eggs.

6+ extras DUCK hatching eggs. These can be mixed breed or purebred, as my ducks are all running together right now. Fertility is excellent. My pen includes: Drakes: 1 Cayuga, 2 Crested Ancona (very large crests!) Ducks (girls): 2 Cayuga (1 is crested), 2 Ancona, 3 Pekins, 3 Magpie, 1...

I can't tell you how stupid excited I am! Thank you so much for your help. I guess it was your 2012 hatch-a-long I got some great info on- just now seeming your 2013 one! I weighed the eggs initially, but haven't kept weighing them... the humidity has consistently been in the 20s. Once they...

Oh wow I was expecting 50 days! I don't feel so bad now, thank you :-) Which is the right sound? The thud or the porcelain? (I thought it was the thud at this point) And then that switches days before hatching, right? I read that somewhere... All 7 eggs are leaning.

Whoops! I started out posting in the emu section... I must have clicked too many buttons XD Can a mod move this over or should I just repost? They are on days 44 and 41. They've been at 95-97 degrees.

Okay, my emu eggs are due to hatch next week. Problem is... I can't tell if they are any good! I've read all these different methods and my eggs just aren't consistent with that.. I started with 8 eggs, one got cracked and I sealed it but it started to smell so I took it out. When I tapped...

To be fair, some of the negatives are newbies as well as some of the positives ;-)

Does this include egg turners/shipping?

What incubators will work for Emu eggs? And where can I get an automatic turner? I'm going to get some eggs this weekend... not sure how to do it best without spending a fortune. Also, do you guys incubate them upright or on their side?

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Does anyone in the NE Kansas area have showgirls for sale? Not giving up my "from scratch" project, just want to have a few in my flock ;-)

Another question to those who have finished showgirls... how big are they compared to the purebred turken/silkie (I know that standard is bantam size, but I prefer larger birds, curious if anyone has standard showgirls :-) ). Also, what size eggs do they lay?

Still looking for help with this... I want to make sure: 1) The silkies (even out of a turken egg) will always be silkie if bred back to a silkie (so I can sell them as silkies?). 2) Do the hens that came out with smooth feathers and no naked necks still have the NN gene? If they do have the...