BYC Edu thread, keep on rambling - HERE incubation Qs answered, lots of information!!

[MikeLM]

Lol, well maybe i have a secret broody somewhere.......

 

[0sami0]

i have a question about housing chicks with duckling i got 6 chicks and 2 duckling from a tsp in town but the white pekin has grown increasingly aggressive the second one a mallard is skitish but pretty sweet i came to the coop this morning to see if my hens had started laying and one of my chicks was crushed flat! i'm certain it was the yellow one it's very large for it's age and the mallard tends to stay away from the chicks it looked like the chick had been drowned before it was trampled should i be worried about housing future chicks with ducks or is it a personality thing?

 

[Auroradream26]

I have pips! It looks like 2 muscovy eggs and 1 turkey egg have pips so far Is my first duckling hatch so I'm nervous lol

 

[Duckling and Spider]

Guess how many eggs she is sitting on.

This many:

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Good luck with that many chicks!

Our night have been close to freezing, also.

Starting tonight, the freezing nights are done.

Lol, well maybe i have a secret broody somewhere.......

i have a question about housing chicks with duckling i got 6 chicks and 2 duckling from a tsp in town but the white pekin has grown increasingly aggressive the second one a mallard is skitish but pretty sweet i came to the coop this morning to see if my hens had started laying and one of my chicks was crushed flat! i'm certain it was the yellow one it's very large for it's age and the mallard tends to stay away from the chicks it looked like the chick had been drowned before it was trampled should i be worried about housing future chicks with ducks or is it a personality thing?

It's personality. Not only do I raise them together, but the duckling pair took on broody personalities with their brooder mates. Chicks and poults!

I have pips! It looks like 2 muscovy eggs and 1 turkey egg have pips so far Is my first duckling hatch so I'm nervous lol

 

[Turtle Rock Farm]

Good morning

It was super cold last night, the water feels like dethawing Ice......looks like my 3-week old chicks won't be going out anytime soon.

My 3wk olds are outside, they're just fine with temps below freezing and no heat. They're hardier than we think.

 

[Duckling and Spider]

Thank you! Why does that look identical to several of someone else's previous posts?

 

[Duckling and Spider]

It's past my bedtime. Goodnight!

 

[Turtle Rock Farm]

Thank you! Why does that look identical to several of someone else's previous posts?

Good question. Night.

(Autocorrect has now learned me too well. It popped up with 'whites' and 'sunshine' after I typed "night".)

 

[aart]

Just bopping in for a cathartic purge/vent to those who will understand.
Thought it was Day 18, but it's Day 19...oops.

As I moved the eggs to the hatcher I thought I heard chirping. WTF?!?!

One egg was *stuck* to turner, it had pipped on wrong end, was peeping, and I can't get it off turner as egg leakage has dried gluing it in place. Had to take turner apart and try to soak it off, egg cracked further, ended up cutting it off with xacto knife. Opened enough membrane to see beak. Chick is peeping and can breathe OK, time will tell if it pulls through and makes it out alive. Blood is from torn membrane, not from stabbing chick with xacto knife, in case anyone jumps to to that conclusion. Hopefully bleed is small enough not to matter.

Not too unusual for them to hatch 'early'. This one was right next to turner motor so maybe got extra heat allowing it to develop faster.

Maybe if I had moved eggs earlier in the day, or yesterday(the real Day 18) it would have not been so dramatic. SMH<shrugs> Not a fun late(for me) evening.

ETA oh thanks for listening...am going to sleep and will update tomorrow.

 

[Turtle Rock Farm]

Hi aart, sorry to hear about that. Hope she pulls through!