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Hi all, It's been a while since I posted. Last November, I had a house fire in which I lost my two beautiful dogs and 1 duck (who was inside in the bathroom recuperating from an injury). Needless to say my heart is totally broken,. I had to rehome my other 12 ducks which I had hatched and...

I have 2 welsh magpie ducks aged 20 weeks in need of a good home with lots of love and care. Theses ducks have been hatched by myself and hand reared. Only need to rehome as hatched 5 males out of 6 eggs! I am based in Suffolk in the UK. I will be really sad to let these go but now have way too...

I have 2 welsh magpie ducks aged 20 weeks in need of a good home with lots of love and care. Theses ducks have been hatched by myself and hand reared. Only need to rehome as hatched 5 males out of 6 eggs! I am based in Suffolk in the UK. I will be really sad to let these go but now have way too...

I have 3 welsh black and white magpie ducks aged 20 weeks in need of a good home with lots of love and care. Theses ducks have been hatched by myself and hand reared. Only need to rehome as hatched 5 males out of 6 eggs! I am based in Suffolk in the UK. I will be really sad to let these go but...

Hi All, Well I noticed a few days ago that my Aylesbury Jemima had a slight limp. I picked her up to inspect legs for bumblefoot/breaks/sprains and couldn't see anything alarming. This morning she is limping much worse so I brought her in to the bathtub and let her have a nice warm bath and...

Hi All BYC! Well I haven't posted for a while because I hatched 6 out of 6 welsh magpies that are now 9 weeks old. Needless to say they (and my other 7 adult ducks) are keeping me very busy. I have 2 problems which I hope you lovely people can help me with. 1. 2 out of the 6 ducklings struggle...

Hi all, This is my 3 Rd hatch. All 5 ducklings were doing brilliantly and just at 23 days old. Yesterday morning I let them out and they were fine, playing and eating and being cheeky. I checked on them several times during the day and all ok. At about 4pm I noticed that they were all lethargic...

Hi all, 5 days ago I hatched 3 silver appleyard ducklings. All was going really well, all 3 were strong, lively, eating and drinking fine. This morning I woke to a power cut but don't think that is the problem. One of the ducklings is chirping constantly and cowering in the corner. I've picked...

Hi All, just thought I'd share my second hatch in progress (didn't do it the first time around with the Cayugas as was so stressed and anxious). First one zipped and hatched within 45 minutes this morning. One down, 3 to go.......

Hi All, My revised (and bigger) luxury duck pond is now finished, complete with old ruin waterfall feature, candy striped decking, Willow wigwam and baby duck Wendy house. What do you guys think? The ducks, however, love it!!!

Hi all BYC! I have 8 ducks in total. 3 mature females, one aged 2 years and two aged 6-10 months and 5 Cayuga ducklings which I hatched 7 weeks ago. My female Buff Orpington (6-10 months old) this morning didn't want to leave the house and go out with the others. She's in her box just nesting...

Well, my first time hatching and the rollercoaster of emotions carries on....... 6 out of 6 hatched. 1 died shortly after hatching. 5 are now 15-18 days old. 2 of the 5 have distinct pom poms on their heads! 1 of the pom pom heads occasionally staggers a little and tends to sit/ lie down when...

Hi All, Just thought I'd share my first hatching experience...... First time for me trying to hatch 6 Cayuga ducklings in a cheap incubator. I've struggled with the humidity levels throughout the incubation and yesterday, on lockdown day/day 25, I found that 4 of the eggs had already started to...

Hello all, I'm hoping to hatch some Cayuga ducklings next week - at the moment they are "cooking nicely". I'm really confused as to what to feed them after 3 weeks up until laying stage at about 20 weeks. I've read that it should be a growers pellet with 16-18% protein but isn't layer feed the...

Hi all, have been reading posts on this site for about 6 weeks now with great interest. Several months ago I woke up and had the idea of getting some ducks. Not only am I a great animal lover but I love duck eggs and duck quirky mannerisms and behaviour. I spent several months building nice...