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It was a public holiday yesterday so the vet was closed but hopefully we can today, although she is looking a bit better

One of my hens is very lethargic, she doesn't seem to want to eat anything and is drinking a bit. She also has green and white diarrhoea that sticks around her bum feathers. Her tail is quite floppy, not perky like it usually is. She also wanted to be on her own instead of hanging out with the...

I have 2 pekin ducks that I have hand raised and incubated. They are now around 7 months old. I have one boy and one girl. I went away on holiday a couple weeks ago and since then they haven't been around very much. They are free range and haven't been laying in the coop, coming into the coop at...

Even after not being fed for a while, their crop is quite large. What bone is the Keel bone? Sorry, I am a newbie to duck keeping. :-) It has been really hard stopping the wild "guests" coming to eat their food, especially as there are 6 wild ducklings (they are nearly adults now, but not quite...

Yup, we have hawks and stuff, but only in specific areas of New Zealand. We live in the bush, so not where we are.

No, our ducks are free range. However, we live in New Zealand so there are no dangerous predators e.g. eagles, etc. The most dangerous thing to them is a pet dog, but all the dogs around our area are not free to roam, so we are really not worried about predators getting them. We do keep them in...

They are very sociable. :-) When I am not there with them they quack a lot!!! Is there any way of them realising that it is safe without me?

This is a good idea. But then the wild ducks can get the food..... when these ducks eat our food it leaves no food for our birds, so the whole system is pointless.....

They are very happy to go in the coop at night. :)

Thats great!!! My ducks are 12 weeks old now and get along so well with the chickens that I think they think they are the same breed! They don't seem interested in mating at all. So I think it will be fine. I know they are still young, so lets see what happens. Thanks for your help!!!

I live by a stream, and I have two pekin ducks. They are around 3 months old and haven't figured out how to get to the stream at the bottom of our garden. It isn't very far... When I take them down there they LOVE it and do not want to come out, and I want them to find the stream so they can go...

We have 3 chickens and 2 pekin ducks and are wondering whether the ducks will be able to use an automatic chicken feeder if we buy one? We are keen to get one of these because we have lots of wild ducks around our house and area, who like to steal the food. Our pet ducks are not particularly...

I have 3 chickens and 2 ducks. They are free range. We did have a feeder, but we live by a stream so there are a LOT of other ducks that like to steal or food, so we would go through the food so fast and our flock would not get to eat the food(We are thinking of getting an automatic chicken...

I am not sure... When I incubated chicks one of them got shrink wrapped. It was fighting to get out for 30 hours, and slowly loosing energy. We didn't think she would survive, but she did! She is now around 2 months old, and living very happily! Her neck is very wonky, but she is fine, and such...

Cool! Thanks! We have 3 chickens as well. At night (they will be free range) we are going to put them in their coop so predators can not get them. Should we do this for the ducks to? Someone told me they will not like this, but I am not sure if this is true... The ducks and chicks are very...