Recent content by JavelinaFarms

Well, we live in Southern New Mexico, most of the ducks/wild birds come here in the winter.

So do you think I should take a spray bottle out there and spray the eggs once a day?

We live near a small college campus. They have a very large duck pond on their golf course, several years ago they decided to buy ducks and release them on campus. Now there are several wild ducks that call the duck pond home and are cross-breeding with the domesticated ducks. The ducks are not...

Hey all, have been having a lot of broody hens and have hatched several successful clutches. We decided to try our hand at hatching ducklings and are having a lot of trouble. On the 1st clutch of ducklings, only 1 hatched and it died about 24 hours later. We thought that maybe the duckling...

I know it has been a while, but I thought you all might want an update. We were able to heal his eye and turn him loose. He regained his vision, so he was able to go back to his home. Once we turned him loose, he did try running back into the truck!

Ok, thanks for the help! I have no idea what kind of duck it is. He is actually more tame than my ducks, haha. I'll try contacting a rescue group.

One of our egg buyers called us today. Apparently, there was a wild male duck hiding under a bush near the building he works in. He was frantic, so we came out and took a look at it. The duck was a bit dehydrated and has had an eye injury at some point. His left eye is hazy and he has been...

Ok, so this was our first time naturally hatching chicks and we are having some problems. We were not really intending on hatching out chicks, but our hen kept going broody and we eventually had problems taking her eggs away, she got VERY aggressive. So, we thought "why not" and let her keep...