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How long can a mom leave the nest without chilling the eggs to death? Thanks to anyone who can help!

I've heard that muscovies are insanely broody, but mine aren't. How can I encourage them? The nutshell story is that these girls are about 8 months old. They're the only 2 muscovies in a flock of Magpie ducks. The reason I bought the muscovies was to be surrogate mothers for Magpie eggs. (Yes...

We built a new fenced run for the ducks. Right now it's full of lush grass but I'm sure in a couple weeks the grass will be plastered in poop and it'll die off. Then I'll bring in some wood chips to give them clean ground to walk on. So I could shovel out and replace the wood chips weekly (or...

I've read that Muscovy x Pekin is a popular meat hybrid. But what about Muscovy drake x lightweight duck (such as a Magpie)? Would the 10# drake be too hard on a 5# female?

Do Muscovies come in these colors, or do you think these birds are some kind of muscovy/mallard cross?

For roundworms, do you treat your chickens on a regular basis, as with cats/dogs? Or do you wait until you see clear signs of worm load in your birds?

So it's mid-June already. My muscovy duck & drake are almost a year old now. I've got them in a large fenced pen with a repurposed henhouse as their ducky digs. It has soft pine shavings as bedding and I can see that the ducks sleep in there. The drake is doing his husbandly duties, but the duck...

We have a fenced area 24' x 18' for a chicken run. Our chosen breed is lightweight: 5 - 5 1/2 lbs per hen. How many birds would you recommend keeping in this square footage?

I'm a new muscovy owner and would like help understanding the noises my birds are making. They're 4 months old. The duck trills very softly; usually she's backing away from a human observer. So is that a sound of distress? The drake opens his bill and pants quietly, also while backing away from...

I have a large fenced poultry yard that currently only contains chickens, but I'd like to add two muscovy ducks. Can I put the ducks in right away? Or should I house them separately for 2 weeks first? Thanks!

...how much does it cost per pound? Are you able to source all the ingredients locally? If you're using your own custom version of this recipe, please share it with us :) Thanks!

Does anybody have Cinnamon Queens that are older than 2 years? How well are they laying? I am familiar with the conventional wisdom that chickens don't lay enough eggs after their second year and should be replaced. I just wondered how many eggs the CQ's lay in their 3rd and 4th year. Anybody...

From what I can tell, the breed standards for Americaunas call for a true blue coloring on the eggshells. Not green or brown, as with "Easter Eggers." Is that right? And if so, please tell me where I can buy pure Americauna chicks? Thanks!!

Edit: Cackle solves the mystery! Post on page 2 They're 20 days old today. We have 16 chicks (ordered 15 and Cackle Hatchery added an extra). Of all the chicks, only this one suddenly has red in its comb and wattles (all the other chicks have the small yellow comb seen on the left-hand...

I was just reading The Small-Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery. He lives in the midwest, I think, and has been using earthen floors with deep litter in his henhouses for 30 years, with good results. However, he mentions that the litter needs to be kept slightly moist but NOT WET, because too...