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Dead sadly, it was fully grown and never made it out

Hey all, I’ve got a single chick egg that had been initially incubating with duck eggs and now moved to its separate incubator. Lockdown was 3 days ago and no sign of external pip. I did remove to candle and sure enough I felt her moving around inside the egg, hopefully internally pipping. I...

Yes I’ve hatched eggs from birds less than a year old with good success. Yes humidity and temp confirmed with external instruments. Genetic diversity should be good. These birds came from a hatchery and then I supplemented with hatching eggs from a farmer online who had a very robust flock and...

So I’m currently having this issue. I have Silver Appleyard ducks who are in Greta shape and less than a year old. I collected eggs and set them exactly according to specifications in Holderreads book. I’ve done this before with excellent results. The first time around I set 22 eggs in my NR360...

How does one know the health of the breeder flock? What would you be looking for as suspect that they are unfit to be breeders?

Hi there. I’ve hatched ducks and chicks for several years using the NR360. Fabulous machine, had great results in years past around 90-95% hatch rate with a full incubator. This year has been very different. At the beginning of January I set a full incubator with 22 eggs, many were duds...

The best incubator by far for that egg capacity is the Nurture Right 360. I have two and am in the market possibly for a third. They have never let me down, keep consistent temps, super quiet and hold up to 22 eggs. You can’t go wrong for that price range and quality.

With respect I tend to agree with your conclusion and may very well choose not to harvest. However I don’t doubt for a minute that birds in her shape and far worse pass with ease in any commercial operation. The infection is not easily spotted and besides a minor limp she has and when held the...

Hi all, I have my 1 y/o Pekin duck whom I’d very much have liked to save but I don’t think it’s going to go that way. Back in December we actually took her to our vet who did bumble surgery on her foot and infection had spread up the leg. We had her on abx for probably a month or 5 weeks and she...

Well it’s weird it is turning on its own now but it isn’t at hour intervals from what I can tell. I might just use the test turner throughout the day just to be sure they are turning. When it turns them it doesn’t have any trouble, these are Saxony eggs so not as big as Pekin and they all rotate...

Yea they are all numbered and so far nothing changed over the last hour. Tried unplugging and replugging back in

Hi all, I purchased a second incubator since we seem to have duck and chick fever here and want to go a little crazy. The last hatch we didn’t use the turner because the Pekin eggs were too large so we did it manually. I think I recall hearing it turn on its own while we had it warming up back...

Hi all! Despite ordering months ago from Meyer Hatchery my order got pushed back multiple times due to weather and now apparently some USPS embargo. So rather than honor my order I got kicked to the back of the line and my ducklings won’t come til JUNE now! I was hoping perhaps someone would...

Prefer Cayuga, Silver Apple Yard, Ancona or Welsh Harlequin. Willing to drive to surrounding states.

Thanks to those who responded. Just wanted to make sure I had my ducks in a row!

Hi! I hatched 6 pekin ducklings 1 week ago and so far they have been healthy from what I can tell. They eat and drink plenty and they get a bath once a day where they do swim and are dried off in plenty of time. Perhaps this is me hovering too much and I could be wrong on this but, it seems...

Just a word of caution if this matters to you. I got the same brand from the same place and I’m sure it’s a fine product, however, it is not non gmo and there is corn and other grains in there. If that’s something that matters to you then you would want to look elsewhere.

@DuckyDonna using the Now Brand I assume is good for ducklings developing? Is this something that would be good to leave in duck feed long term or only til fully grown? I had gotten a 5 gallon tub of BY but then found they have corn and other stuff in there and since it isn’t non gmo I didn’t...

Hi all. Recently I bought a bit Ol tub of brewers yeast not knowing corn and wheat were the main ingredients. I don’t particularly have a problem with those grains but if they are GMO I’d rather that not be part of my flocks feed. Does anyone have a source for feed that would supplement the...

How did this turn out? I have a similar situation with my Pekin female. Raised her from duckling and was fine but developed bumble and we gave her anti biopics but infection likely still in her joint. It’s been near a month now and she does use it more but I think it will be a long time before...