[Cleo]

Silver appleyard day 21

Well I still have four eggs. What should I see when candling on day 21.

Do you sometimes find it more difficult to see movement when they get bigger ?

I def. caught two doing the jive last night. Not sure about the other two.
Only a week to go it's very exciting.
I've started Misting the eggs with warm water twice a day.

Any thoughts on what I should do to hopefully end up with ducks this time.

Cleo

[chickenlady]

Dont know about the candling The hatchery  told us not to move the eggs after day 18 as too much movement can cause the chicks beak to move out of the air sack and can drown!!!!!! dont know how true this is !! :shock:

[chickenlady]

Just realised you talking about duckies :shock:  I know nothing about duckies but it could be the same for them!!!??

[Vember]

Hi Cleo

When you candle now it should basically be a black blob with a large air sac, if your lucky you might be able to see a slight movement between the air cell and the chick, ie a foot moving

Here's an idea of how big the air sac should be now.


Hope that's some help



Sarah

[Cleo]

Thanks , that's mostly how mine look. Just keeping the old fingers crossed

[Vember]

Will keep everything crossed here for you tooo


Sarah-

[Kate and her Ducks]

Keeping my fingers and everythng else I've got crossed for you. You must be really nervous after the awful luck you have had, I was a gibbering wreck.

Good luck, you're doing every thing I would do.
Keep us up to date

[poultrygeist]

Hoping they come through for you cleo.

Be nice to see some more hatchling photos.  

Rob

[chickenlady]

Hoping they come through for you cleo.

Be nice to see some more hatchling photos.  

Rob

Did someone say hatching photos needed?
They not ducks though!



in amongst this lot are 3 of our girlies!

[poultrygeist]

Altogether now.....

AAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

That's as fresh as they come. Really sweet chickenlady. I hope cleo gets the same joy.

Rob

[Cleo]

Aww lovely,

Thanks for the good wishes guys!

Just keeping going with the usual routine though will stop turning on day 24.

[Cleo]

Day 25  

Checks the eggs very gently last night . We have three healthy ducklings
one close to internal pip.
Temperature is good...humidity high, no more turning..

Q.  What is the first thing you would feed them when hatched and how many hours after hatch do they need feeding.


Cleo

[Kate and her Ducks]

Chick crumb, specifically for waterfowl if you can get it. If you can't make sure it is non-medicated as the anti-coccicodosis stuff is toxic to ducklings. They don't need food or water in the first 24 hours as they still have the remains of the yolk that they absorb in their stomach but I have always made sure they have food and water available from hatching. They sometimes need a bit of encouragement and their bill dipping into the water and feed to give them the idea.
If they are not keen on eating to begin with a bit of hard boiled egg crumbled up.

[Vember]

OoooooooO It's sounding good

Do as Kate suggests and you wont go far wrong
Smallholders Organic range is Coccicodosis free


Good Luck



Sarah

[Jellyhead]

I read this and have so got everything crossed for you keep us posted, and I mean everyday please. I am not getting impatient or excited you understand :roll: its just that you need to finish what you started       oh and photos are a must, they insist on it on here :oops: