Posts by EMantooth

I'd love to hear your girls!  To me, OD seems bigger than our wild mallards already...but maybe that's just because its been so well fed?  Yes, it was definitely slower growing than the Pekins, though.  Funny since the...

  This is OD -- "Odd Duck".  It was the 6th of my "Pekin" duck eggs to hatch, but obviously was the odd one out of the batch.  The lady I bought the eggs from didn't tell me she had any other type of duck besides...

Well, my  22 eggs turned out to be a bust.  I never saw any development except in one, and it quit very, very early on. I opened all the eggs to see what was going on -- nothing happened in any of them except that...

Quote:  I can finally join soon!  I've been scouring markets and health food places for fertile eggs, and I finally found some today!  I've got to wait for the duck eggs to get out of the incubator this...

  I can finally join soon!  I've been scouring markets and health food places for fertile eggs, and I finally found some today!  I've got to wait for the duck eggs to get out of the incubator this weekend, but once...

When you feed egg shells back to the chickens, how do you prepare them?  Someone mentioned baking them?  Do you just crumble them or do you crush them up really finely? Thanks!

With a decent diet, it will be interesting to see how she develops...  But she is pretty with the speckled/spangled thing going on.  A game mix makes sense -- good survivors in urban chicken life and the Cuban culture in Ybor...

She seems "leggy" to me, too...

Brought this little girl home earlier this evening...she was raised in an apartment on rice and beans.  Owners told me her favorite food is french fries.  Sigh... They said she was 3 months old and they thought she was an...

I've really appreciated everyone's advice, and I'm hoping you can come through with some more for me!  1.  My three girls have dry pox.  Any advice on helping them through it?  Does putting iodine on combs really...