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This little one is a cayuga/blue runner mix that hatched a week ago. She had a bald spot on her back when she hatched and I figured it would start filling in by now, but it is still just bare skin...has anyone had this happen before? I worry that she wont be able to live outside as an adult bc...

My blue runner hen went broody this year. She pushed an egg out of the nest about a week ago. It was still alive so I threw it in the incubator (not expecting much) and it hatched over the weekend. The daddy is my blue runner, but mama could be my buff or one of my 2 fawn and white runners. Any...

A cute (quick read) article on runner ducks who work in a vineyard...

I get really confused on the difference between the 3. I have a pair of indian runners hatched from a pair of blues. I've been told they're lavender and I've also been told they're silver and I'm curious about lilac bc it looks very similar to the other 2. My hen is on the top/right side. She...

Does anyone else have an issue with wild ducks messing with their flocks? It started here about a month ago when a mallard drake was watching my girls from the roof. He hopped down into the yard, my drake got a hold of him, they tussled for a minute then the mallard flew away. This has been...

We hatched blue runner eggs in hopes of getting at least 1 lavender. We started with 7 eggs, we had one early quitter and ended up with 2 blacks, 2 blues, and 2 lavenders 😍

I just came across this in one of my FB duck groups. I havent used it before, but I know I've read a lot of threads that recommend blue-kote

I have 5 females and a drake. My oldest female regularly mates with our drake and has an attachment to him, but she makes it difficult for him to mate with the other girls. She bites him and the other girls when he tries to mount them. Even when the other girls just "flirt" with him, my crazy...

My ducks free range, however we have a few bunches of milkweed plants in our yard (we love monarchs too). I would assume that these plants are toxic to ducks the way they are to dogs. I have 16" high wire fencing around the milkweed to keep our dogs away, but our ducks can fit between the wires...

I was just watching my ducks snoozing in their house and it looks like there is steam (like a person breathing in cold weather) rising up from a cluster of them. Its 19 degrees in there and the temp usually rises to about 30 after a couple hours of being in for the night. There isn't food/water...

I noticed these spots on both of my fawn and white runners bills. It has been cold the last week. The lowest around 15 degrees. My welshie boys don't have anything like this and the rest of my flock has dark bills, so nothing obvious with any of them. I tried looking up images of frostbit bills...

I live in SE Michigan, temps in 20's and 30's this time of year. I have six ducklings that are 7.5 weeks old. How/when can I start acclimating them to the cold weather so that I can integrate them into my outdoor flock? I was thinking of putting them out for a few hours a day and gradually...

Hi there, I am a duck owner in southeast Michigan. I have 6 juvenile ducks: an 11 week old female cayuga, three 7 week old welsh harlequin drakes, and a pair of 7 week old blue runners. I am currently deciding whether to add females to my flock or rehome 3 of my drakes. I am VERY hesitant to...