Hello! I am on day 6 (and day 1) of my Pekin duck eggs.
This is my first time incubating duck eggs! They are from our recently deceased male, Cinnamon and our recently deceased female, Maple . ...my story is in another thread that I started last week to do a hatch along ....but i posted it...
Help...with staggered hatch of duck eggs....has anyone done it in the same incubator? At 6 days in? Thank you!! I just want to add in one more ...our female got eaten yesterday by a great horned owl...and my husband was able to take her LAST egg out of her, unharmed (she was only half eaten;( )...
Hello! Been a while since I have posted or lurked here.
Our beloved Pekin drake (Cinnamon) got nabbed the night before last by what we think was a great horned owl. We think its the only predator it could be that left the clues that it did that it could possible be.
Anyways our female (Maple)...
Hello! Our first time with a broody hen! She is our own hybrid from my first incubated hatch last year. She is on day 15 on her clutch. I candled the eggs and She will have chicks. My question is, I am worried about the chicken tractor she is in for navigating baby chicks in..or rather out...
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So I did it. My self, my hubs helped with prep and making sure to be extra hands etc......but I did it! And this was a hybrid roo from our first Batch of our own babies from our first Cochin and all his four ladies We mail ordered last Sept, anyways, I incubated 22 eggs after our surprise roo...
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What would happen? With a Plymouth Rock all white hen? Her chicks would look like? We have three black babies....and one penciled roo..... I am feeling very helpless not inderstanding the gnetics of the all white . We have a hatch of 16 chicks, five weeks old from our golden laced Cochin...
On photos it is the inside left leg that is the worst. We just discovered it earlier-today, they will all be (our hatch of 16 chicks) three weeks on Monday. My husband and I searched the the heck out the best way to straighten them, but when we tried tonight after our kids when to bed, ugh! We...