Added more to the family.

[squirrelhunter]

We went to Rural King today and got 3 Khaki Campbell and 3 Rouen ducklings. That brings our total to 11 ducks and well,2 Canadian geese that are ours that aren't here much since they prefer spending their time at 1 or the other of our neighbors with ponds. I also ordered 6 African Grey geese eggs online to try and hatch.

 

[dademoss]

Rural King is a gateway fowl store! I got suckered into chickens there many years ago

 

[Meerkat]

We went to Rural King today and got 3 Khaki Campbell and 3 Rouen ducklings. That brings our total to 11 ducks and well,2 Canadian geese that are ours that aren't here much since they prefer spending their time at 1 or the other of our neighbors with ponds. I also ordered 6 African Grey geese eggs online to try and hatch.

How cute , always enjoy our little chicks when we bring them home.

 

[Amish Heart]

Loving those babies. Just sold all our ducks last week to the track coach. Too hard to move. Missing them already

 

[squirrelhunter]

Rural King is a gateway fowl store! I got suckered into chickens there many years ago

What do you mean by "gateway fowl store" ? Their the only ones I know of anywhere fairly close by you can buy waterfowl or even rabbits.

 

[squirrelhunter]

Loving those babies. Just sold all our ducks last week to the track coach. Too hard to move. Missing them already

I know what you mean. When our 4 ducks got ran over all at once a few years ago in the fall,it was a long winter without any ducks. I couldn't wait until Spring to get more.

 

[squirrelhunter]

Well I've got 5 geese eggs in the incubator and so far 2 have hatched and another is starting to peep.

 

[Amish Heart]

Little granddaughter just saw baby chickee #1 hatch in the incubator. Now she's sitting on a chair she moved over to the incubator, with her nose pressed to the incubator to watch. Bedtime for her, though, told her to run out and see how many in the morning. As fun as Christmas

 

[squirrelhunter]

Little granddaughter just saw baby chickee #1 hatch in the incubator. Now she's sitting on a chair she moved over to the incubator, with her nose pressed to the incubator to watch. Bedtime for her, though, told her to run out and see how many in the morning. As fun as Christmas

Yeah it is pretty interesting,but a long process usually.

I'm up to 4 goslings now,so far the 5th 1 hasn't done anything. I'll give it 1 more day then I'll candle it and see if it's still moving in there.

 

[Meerkat]

Little granddaughter just saw baby chickee #1 hatch in the incubator. Now she's sitting on a chair she moved over to the incubator, with her nose pressed to the incubator to watch. Bedtime for her, though, told her to run out and see how many in the morning. As fun as Christmas

We love little chics and ducklings.
Yall are making me want ot get more ducks but really can't right now.

 

[Amish Heart]

Eleven so far. Little granddaughter has been naming them all. Then I noticed that they're all boy's names. So I told her that maybe half will be boys. But I hope for more girls than half. She thought about it and said, "Well then the girls will lay eggs and we'll hatch more chicks, and we'll be in business".
I have a new chicken partner.

 

[squirrelhunter]

Looks like egg number 5 isn't going to hatch. That leaves me a total of 11 ducks and 4 geese,dang I might have to build another building .

 

[Amish Heart]

Yes, you might! I've hatched ducks, but never geese. We had 13 baby chickens hatch.

 

[squirrelhunter]

There's not any difference between the 2,they take the same time and humidity.

Congrats on the chicks,I bet they're so adorable. Hopefully you have some good layers there.

 

[Amish Heart]

Thanks! Layers or fryers, don't care. Nothing hatched overnight, so I think it's done. Will be filling it again today or tomorrow.

 

[squirrelhunter]

Good luck with the new batch.

 

[Spikedriver]

At the Iowa State Fair they have a big building full of critters ready to pop out their babies. Cows, pigs, goats, etc. - and chicks and ducklings. My daughter still loves to go watch the incubators. There's over a hundred eggs in there at any given time and you can see them start to wiggle, then the chick starts busting out. She likes that better than the piglets or calves. I can't let her see the pics of y'all's ducklings or chicks - she's liable to start begging for some!

 

[squirrelhunter]

At the Iowa State Fair they have a big building full of critters ready to pop out their babies. Cows, pigs, goats, etc. - and chicks and ducklings. My daughter still loves to go watch the incubators. There's over a hundred eggs in there at any given time and you can see them start to wiggle, then the chick starts busting out. She likes that better than the piglets or calves. I can't let her see the pics of y'all's ducklings or chicks - she's liable to start begging for some!

Nothing wrong with that at all,get her some.

 

[Spikedriver]

Nothing wrong with that at all,get her some.

Her mom is deadly allergic to eggs. No joke. Milk too, so no eggs and no Guernsey's for my kid.