Sterilizing, Washing & Powering Up The Duck Egg Incubator #3 Hatching Ducklings Ducks
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Today it's the Pekin duck's turn to free range, yesterday Dug the duck protector spent the day in the bush with the Rouen ducks when they were in the bush free ranging.
Another beautiful spring day +25°C is so much nicer than -25°C like back in January.
The Pekin ducks are dropping eggs all over the yard, this is why they can't get let out of the duck breeding pen early in the mornings, I go out first thing in the morning around 6-7 am to refresh their water and they want out so bad but I can't let them out that early or I'd be picking eggs up all over the place.
Today's egg recon netted out 31 Pekin duck eggs, 16 Rouen duck eggs, & 15-18 Muscovy duck eggs, so egg production is steady over the 50 eggs per day minimum now.
I've noticed the Muscovy females some are really clean while others are really dirty from getting mounted by the Muscovy drake ducks, it seems after watching them that some of the females really go crazy cleaning themselves after mating and some don't bother. I guess some ducks are just slobs.
The last week I've notice that the Rouen are the calmest of the ducks around Dug the dog, it seems from them going deep into bush free ranging and Dug going in with them, the ducks have developed some kind of bond with Dug. It looks like when the Rouen ducks go into the bush to free range Dug is circling them on the bush side of the flock away from the house, it's like he's making sure the bush is safe for them.
Looks like the ducks have a competitor for fun with the garden hose, Dug loves playing with it just like the ducks do.
Today when the Pekin had free range rights they kept coming back to the pen area to torment the locked up Rouen, they would walk back and forth in front of the pen to drive the poor Rouen ducks nuts.
Today I'm washing the inside of the incubator out with a soap and chlorine mixture to sterilize it, and get the unit powered up. Because it's a Chinese incubator it's 220 volt single line voltage so I had to get a step up transformer to run the unit, fortunately when I looked for one on line I found a deal on Amazon that was 2 for the price of 1 and free shipping, the poor seller lost his shirt on the deal.
I'm going to run it for 2 days first to see how it works and get it aired out and stabilized, tomorrow I'm going to get out the scientific humidity & temperature gauge I bought to verify the incubator's calibration is correct.
I've got a lot of eggs to wash up from the last 4 days I've been collecting but too busy to wash them, so 200+ eggs to wash and over 600 eggs to put in trays.
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