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This is my first incubated from day 1 (which was midnight 9/2) in my new brinsea eco 20 duckling hatch! It's done well with my mutt chicks, and even with a rescued unhatched duckling without a known due date. The temps and humidity have been very steady. So I get home from work tonight, take...

On 9/2 I put sixteen duck eggs from Efowl.com in my Brinsea eco-20. I've been hatching mutt chicks from the backyard flock all summer and got the candling thing down pretty good, but I haven't seen this yet. The air sacs are at the correct end of the egg, but they are not round, they are...

from local feedstore. The owner is venturing into selling chicks/ducklings and is on that steep learning curve, and last week she GAVE me five sickly ducklings (three runners and two mysteries). I could tell by the symptoms they needed B vitamins (unable to walk, puny). I lost one little...

I put up a post in the Emergency section too called "Egg bound goose". Lilly is the pet Embden goose I rescued last June. She is such a sweet girl, I am trying SO HARD to not be a mess about this ;( She's layed perhaps three eggs so far, they are ENORMOUS, and this morning she just . . ...

So I'm gonna do what I can myself I think I caught it pretty early, not sure. She couldn't get herself walking this morning, kept slumping to the ground. She sleeps inside at night, and seemed fine yesterday. She's been laying GINORMOUS eggs, two or three by now. And her belly feels a bit...

Has anyone read Konrad Lorenz's book? I ordered it from Amazon, it is a big color picture book of the year he spent (along with several young scientists who were foster parents to a flock of wild greylags in the Alps) studying their life and behavior. I am completely enchanted!! It is a...

I shouldn't have been perusing Craigslist, very dangerous, but that's how I found out about Lilly, a white goose who's "husband" Shredder had been killed by coyotes last week. She's all alone, and her owners are afraid to get any more poultry for fear of the coyote problem in their area. She...

I didn't find her until some time after this happened, don't know if it was the coyote who basically denuded my tom turkey of his entire fan and most back feathers or if it was the turkey who did this himself, after I shut him in with the hens. She is almost five months old and an ameracauna...

I've been reading on niacin deficiency but have so little experience, these are my first ducklings. They were hatched mid April. They've been outside for two weeks. Here in the Pacific NW it is muddy and damp, and the ducklings are always snurfling in the mud. Literally ten minutes ago, I go...

I believe Petey Girl has finally tipped over into broodiness. She spends every available moment on her nest of sterile eggs. Her nest is against the side of the house and completely unprotected (of course she chose this location). When I'm at work or gone from the house, she and Petey go in a...

I have three five week olds, mostly feathered, and ONE is quacking, so I know I have at least one female. These are my first ever ducklings BTW. The female and another have dark bills, and the third has a lighter olive green bill. Of course they are all identical in feathering except for the...

Just put the geese in the pen with everyone else and getting ready for work. Look outside one more time, and Petey is standing on Petey Girl and doing his thing. In May. When Petey Girl is only laying about one egg every three days. How long till her eggs will be fertile again? Is it like...

I have a pet bantam d'anvers blue quail hen, a year old now, who's never laid an egg. She was an only chicken up till two months ago, and comes in the house at night and is very tame. She is definitely a she , has been very healthy. The roosters are locked up when she goes outside or they'd...

My three month old American lavender geese are very aware of my clothing, and get QUITE upset when I put on my colorful work scrubs (I'm an RN). I go out to say goodbye to them and they stick their necks way out and chatter, and only approach me with great caution, edging closer and closer ...

My lonely Narragensett poult got four new friends today, week or so old BB bronze and whites. I don't plan on raising them for meat, just yard art and coolness of turkeys. My sister and BIL raise the mutant broiler chickens and I know they have a very short "life" due to their body weight...

This was a splash Ameracauna about a week old. She appeared to be healthy and eating last night. I just found her this morning dead. Her lower rear abdomen is very distended and when I pressed on it, a thick yellow stinky fluid came out of an area a half inch below her vent. Her vent itself...

I have two narragansett poults, one of whom is on the track to starve out. I've been feeding her goats milk soaked turkey starter by a syringe several times a day, a drop of vit E oil, and she had some egg yolk earlier today. She is still "too quiet", toddles around, pecks a little but just...

I bought 10 white crested black polish chicks from a guy on Craigslist on Saturday. By Sunday evening, three were dead. This evening, I found ANOTHER ONE dead Only a couple of them are vigorous, and most were sluggish/listless from the time I got them home. I haven't had chicks for a couple...

I'm new to this forum, so I hope this is an OK subject! I've finally, after a long year of waiting, gotten a pair of show quality American Lavender goslings from Holderread's, their last hatch of the year. They are fluorescent yellow LOL and so sweet natured. I want to get them used to...