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Beautiful bird, mine gets angry and whines when I disturb her sunbathing.

Welcome Caleb, welcome to the world of chickens. This site is great for all questions about chickens.

Sorry for the late update, life got hectic. But I checked the remaining eggs and 4 of them were shrink wrapped. 2 were not developed. I felt really bad. Next time I’ll get an incubator with a humidity meter. The hatched chicks are great 1 ended up being a silkie, not sure how 🤣

I counted the days right and I used the calendar that came with the incubator from Amazon. This was my first time incubating eggs and didn't realize how stressful it would be. I will candle today and I hope to see something. Thank you for the reply

I saw people assisting with I forgot to mention that the last chick that hatched was moved and cracked when moving one of the chicks. Should i make external pips in hopes of assisting them to hatch if they are still alive? Lesson learned about the thermometers for next time.

Thank You, I'll candle them again when I get off of work this afternoon. Hopefully I can get more chicks. I had 5 hatch under a hen 3 weeks ago with no issues and she is being a great mama. First time using incubator, so not really an expert on how to calibrate. I only used the machine thermometer.

I have not posted here in a while, I incubated 12 eggs and 6 beautiful chicks hatched. One hatched today, and it’s day 23. The other 6 eggs have not pipped. Temps were never below 99.5 and never above 101. Raised humidity at lockdown. Should I be worried?? Candling at lockdown showed growth.

Thank you, I think so too. Though I was sad to see 2 of my boys leaving :(

Update: I found out they are all boys from my friend who owns a farm. I was lucky he needed 2 boys and was willing to trade 4 females for them. Now I have 6 ducks 😂 it’s crazy how much smaller the females are even when they are older.

That’s what everyone tells me too. I was also told to wait until 5 months. They’re all the same size and look the same 😂 I’m just glad they’re healthy. But I want to make sure that they’re not all drakes or only 1 of them is a duck.

They have large pool, and a water feeder.

Hi I’m a city dweller with a farmer’s heart. I have chickens and ducks. However I have never had Muscovey ducks before. They are beautiful! Anyone can tell me if they are drakes or hens? They are about 3 months old. They all look the same and are the same size.