Homemade incubator+6 Wood Duck eggs=Wood Duck chicks

[GasX]

Nice work!

We are at week 7 with our chickens. We got them mail order at 2 days old. a few more days and my coop will be done and they'll be out on the pasture.

 

[n7]

Cute ducklings 😀

Impressive work!

 

[Ichinisan]

omg the cute!

We put together a styrofoam incubator to incubate about 6 emu eggs here in the lab. It was damn tedious--they had to be rotated about every 4 hours for 2 straight months and the incubator itself was pretty leaky with temperature. On top of that, you could never really be sure which, if any, of the eggs were fertile.

Anyway, a few of them were viable....of course they were savagely murdered right at hatching because we needed their liver and heart tissue. Our lab benches were messy that day.

d: D: D:

 

[Ichinisan]

OP's story reminds me of 5th grade. I brought a catalog to class and the whole class decided to pitch in and buy an incubator. My brother and I also built one at home from a light bulb and a plastic bin from some seed kit for kids. I also remember cutting up my Nintendo Entertainment System original box as part of this project.

The only egg that hatched out of 3 incubators was the one my brother and I built. My teacher kept the chicken through the summer and it grew into a healthy adult.

 

[Phoenix86]

d: D: D:

I expect the day old organs yield more accurate test results.

 

[MongGrel]

Mmm... duck. Now to fatten them up.

He he he.

Nice work though, have a pond ya can be Tony Soprano, kinda.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

I Remember in like 3d grade in the 70's my grandparents brought two baby Camains up from FL and I took em to school and they took me around all the rooms to look at em in Indiana, as no one had ever seen one there.

Unfortunately my little brother decided they needed a bath and poured laundry soap on them and killed them about a week later.

 

[Ichinisan]

He he he.

Nice work though, have a pond ya can be Tony Soprano, kinda.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

I Remember in like 3d grade in the 70's my grandparents brought two baby Camains up from FL and I took em to school and they took me around all the rooms to look at em in Indiana, as no one had ever seen one there.

Unfortunately my little brother decided they needed a bath and poured laundry soap on them and killed them about a week later.

Crocodiles?

 

[gorcorps]

For those that don't know, wood ducks are absolutely gorgeous.

Yeah, and fast as all hell... Makes hunting tricky

 

[norseamd]

want some

they look soft and huggable

 

[waffleironhead]

Mmmmm wood duck. Tastes like bald eagle.