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Ducklings…..or Chicks…..?

Ducklings…..or Chicks…..?

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Which are they?………….are they going to be baby ducks or baby chickens…..?….. I’ve done this quite a few times in the past…some might even say I’m an aficionado….. I may have been a bit too cavalier when picking out the Runner Duck eggs from the daily cache of eggs….. …..they’re bigger than chicken eggs…rounder at both ends…and denser-feeling to the touch….. …..Easy Peasy…..right?….. …..Yep………….well………….Nope….. I picked out the appropriate sizes…shapes…and colors….. …..and after…

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Three Ducklings

Three Ducklings

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Only three ducklings hatched out….. …..not a great hatching percentage I guess….. …..but the three that hatched out are happy with the results….. There were seventeen eggs that didn’t hatch….. …..I gave them extra time in the incubator…..just to make sure….. …..but by the mounting smell….. …..it was rapidly becoming obvious…..the remaining eggs had no intention of hatching….. …..exploding maybe….. …..hatching?………….NO….. I carefully took the unhatched eggs outside to where we feed the…

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…..Pipping Away…..

…..Pipping Away…..

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Where Mother Nature has a will…..there’s a way….. I can hear “ticking” and “clicking” inside the incubator coming from inside some of the eggs….. …..in egg-hatching-jargon that’s called “pipping”….. There’s internal and external “pipping”….. When babies are hatching from an egg…..they score around the inside of the egg shell….. …..then if everything goes well….. …..they break through and continue chipping and chirping and scoring their way around the outside-layer of the shell until…

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