Lucky the lone duckling is still doing well, joined the other day by 3 Aylesbury buddies her age.

Tonight was the night for candling the clutches I've got set currently. Tiger's lot are a mix of Wyandotte eggs and OEGb eggs. A few of the 'dotte eggs fertile, a few clear, shell quality on 2 was not pleasing especially considering they do have free access to calc/shellgrit.

Penny's were mostly Wyandotte eggs - her own and her daughters. Same thing with them, a number look promising, 3 were clear, excellent shell quality. Penny is also sitting on a duck egg - Aylesbury, which is looking like it's chugging along quite well. Less than halfway through incubation but nice blood vessel formation and activity visible on candling.

The new wyandotte hen was very, very disappointing. Shell quality was dreadful, half of them clear, one showed bacterial ring on the inside so it'd probably developed about 10-12 days before dying. She's currently sitting on four, so I'll pop some more under her shortly.

The older pair of Chinese geese have laid a single egg for a second clutch. Mind you it's the only one in several days so if she doesn't lay more I'll put it under one of the hens and hopefully get her laying again better. And two more of my 'dotte girls have gone broody on me - geeze, where were they a month ago when I was putting eggs in the fridge for lack of broodies!!! Argh! So may look at buying in settings for them.