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Hello! im making this post for a friend who reached out to me for some advice. She has one male pekin duck and one female pekin duck, who normally get along great but mating season has taken a physical toll on the female and she is super beat up on her body and neck from the male duck climbing...

Hello, I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day. So I previously had a duck pass away after she had been limping/immobile for a few weeks out of the blue. I came home and she was passed away laying by the coop with the other ducks and it was really heartbreaking. Now I have another one of my...

Hi Everyone, I just went out back and saw one of my hen's and I'm concerned about her, I'm not sure how to describe the way she looks so I have included photo's below for you guys to see. My boyfriend told me this week he has been seeing a skunk by our coops in the mornings, we also have...

Hey everyone, If you have been following me you know that I've recently had a female duck (6 months old) who had a leg injury on both legs. I was taking extra care of her to make sure she had clean fresh water to dunk her head in since she was immobile/unable to get into the duck pool, and I...

Hello everybody! I hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July :) I meant to post this days ago but things got so busy and I feel bad because this duck of mine needs my full attention. She has been not really able to walk around for going on 3-4 weeks I believe now. Within the last week it...

Hello! I hope everyone is having a great day today, Happy (early) 4th of July!!! I forgot to post these last week but I wanted to find out what caused a few of my chicken eggs to look so funky/cracked. I have never had this happen before and after the day these were laid I didn't see anymore...

Hey! I hope everybody is doing well :) One of my female pekin's has had a leg injury the last 2 weeks. She is starting to show improvement! She is being very good about resting so she can heal but she can't walk very well, uses her wings to balance herself if she does walk/run. I have been...

I woke up this morning and discovered one of my girls has a seemingly bad eye infection :( I'm wondering if you guys can tell what type of infection it is and what I need to do, I've included a photo. I picked her up and brought her inside and she is currently taking a bath in the tub. She is...

Hello! So I have a total of 12 pekin ducks, 5 of them are males. One of the males named Angel (named Angel because he unfortunately developed a mild case of angel wing & we did try wrapping but the other ducks always found a way to remove it for him, little stinkers). Angel chases the other...

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been a able to get on but the past 2 days I've had to chase an eagle out of my backyard that was about to grab my pekin's and chickens. I am surrounded by farm lands/crops so my area always has eagles and hawks around. I've been pretty lucky to say they...

Hello! I have been a little MIA on the forum's lately and I apologize. I seriously appreciate everyone on BYC more than I can put into words, ya'll have helped me through everything while raising my ducklings and chickens too! With that being said,I have a big problem and I don't know what to...

Hello, My boyfriend came home about a month ago with a 1 week old silkie and a day old bantam silkie. We have 12 chickens but the behavior is so different in these two breeds that I needed to reach out to you guys for some help. First question I have is about the older Silkie (the orange-is...

Hi there, So I'm in a tricky situation. I have these two ducklings that were born on January 17 and 19 so they are a little over a month old now and my boyfriend and I are very well bonded with these two. They LOVE to be held, cuddled, they will sit in our laps while we watch tv, etc. but...

Hello, I'm in desperate need of some insight, I'm pretty heart broken because this morning we had our 5th duckling die during hatching. We hatched eggs about a month and a half ago and we lost a couple which I understand that the mortality rate during hatching for ducklings is roughly 20%, but...

Hello, This morning at about 1:00 am I had one of my Jumbo Pekin Duckling eggs hatch. It hatched on Day 29 of incubation and it was the quickest hatch I've seen so far (I've hatched 5 previously before this). The duckling itself looked and seems strong and healthy but once it slid it's body out...

Hello, Hoping I can get answers regarding Pekin ducklings here - I apologize if I am not supposed to be posting this here, I'm new to BYC. Anyways - this morning around 2 am I had one of our Jumbo Pekin Ducklings hatch. The duckling incubated for almost 30 days and I could tell it was pretty...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? June 2018 so about 6 months as of now. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have 12 hens in addition to 3 male Jumbo Pekin Ducks, 3 female Jumbo Pekin Ducks, and we are currently hatching Pekin ducklings as well. So far we...