Recent content by meggles_b5309

Oh interesting! I have never heard of egg lash. I think this was one soft-ish egg that was mangled. She laid another soft shelled egg the next day and was a new duck. I haven’t seen another egg since, though, and her butts getting big so I’m keeping close watch of her behavior. I supplement...

Hi everyone! I’ve been reading on here for the past few years as a fledgling duck and chicken owner. I have learned a lot, and wanted to share a weird situation I had come up recently. I have a welsh harlequin duck who is three years old, who has had thin walled or soft eggs for as long as I...

Hi everyone! Sorry for the dealy getting an update! Been a busy week. So I spent some time watching black duck (yes it's her name :p) and it turns out she seems to be at the verrrry bottom of the pecking order with the other ducks. Firstly, the new ducks bully the old ones out of the pools...

Hi Miss Lydia! I have removed all the eggs. She just checks her old haunts it seems. I finally picked her up today and she is icky feeling (her feathers aren't smooth and fluffy, and her color has become dull). After some research, it looks like she might have an infected preen gland. I...

She goes back to all the nests I've found (they were completely free ranging before but now I have a portion of the yard fenced off, but I give them field days now and then). She won't sit on her nests all day, but will keep collecting clutches.

I don't notice any unusual amount of feathers, and this particular hen has looked moulty for several months. She eats, swims, and lays with the best of them, but I would consider her broody (at least, what I assume is broody - she lays secret clutches and hides them and i've found as many as 9...

How long does a moult last? My girls are a year and a half and she's the only one who has ever looked even remotely moulty.

I have another issue that seems to be getting worse. One of my original 4 girls is looking ROUGH. She is getting beat up (I believe by her own group) when I'm not around - missing feathers on the back of her head, looking unkempt. She swims, eats, runs around with the best of them, but is...

Thank you all for your advice! I am pleased to announce my old girls are all laying again, and everyone was eating out of the same treat bowl this morning instead of fighting over the space. Per your advice, I also added another feeding station and spread out their pools so they don't have...

Hi everyone! I have been learning from this resource for a long time and finally joined the community! I have ducks, not chickens, but I’ve read a lot of people in the same boat on here so I hope it’s OK that I joined. I have some ducks that are a little over a year old and they are super...