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I have 3 mallard eggs that I am incubating. I have never hatched eggs and am using a homemade incubator so it was a longshot trying to hatch these as I have 0 experience. It is now day 30 and in about 6 hours they will have been in the incubator for 30 complete days. Not one of them has...

So I have run into a bit of a problem. I am on day 24 of incubating some mallard eggs and am getting ready for lockdown tomorrow. My problem is struggling to get good ventilation in my homemade incubator while maintaining temp and humidity. If I plug up all the holes except for one at the end of...

Hi, I am incubating 3 mallard eggs currently but I only need one. This means I will either have 2 or 1 ducklings for sale and they will be $10 per duckling. They will be hatching around 11/20/15 Since I literally don't want to count my ducks before they hatch, these are NOT GUARANTEED TO HATCH...

Hi everyone, I am incubating 3 mallard duck eggs right now, but this question can be answered by anyone regardless of the bird. I have made a still air homemade styrofoam cooler incubator. I am currently on day 11 of incubation and the ducklings are all alive and developing well. The problem...

I am hatching some mallard eggs and am hand turning them. When I turn them (3 times a day) am I supposed to turn them 180 to the complete opposite side, or only 90 degrees? I haven't really found a definitive answer. Thanks

Sorry that I have already created a post on this put I believe this could be a serious problem with my duck. My mallard will be 2 years old in less than 3 weeks and she has had a problem of laying shell-less eggs for over 4 months straight with no normal eggs since march of 2015. She normally...

My hen mallard is 20 months old. She started laying eggs in the winter of 2013 and has pretty much laid an egg a day since starting. Every couple weeks, she'd lay a soft shelled egg which was no big deal because the next day it would be a good one. When she ran out of layer food, I went to the...

My hen house mallard is 19 months old and hasn't lost any of her original adult feathers. A few here and there from picking, but I mean nothing major. The problem is a ton of her feathers are ripped and in bad shape, including wing feathers so she has a hard time staying in the air when she...

In October, my female mallard Gabby was attacked in her cage by an owl when my family was out eating dinner. Luckily she was not killed and her wounds have healed completely except for the feathers not growing back. She has a pool in her cage outside and that was where she would spend pretty...

My 1 year 3 month old mallard hen has recently developed a discolored speculum on her left wing. Her right wing still looks very good, though. She eats a lot of 18% chicken layer feed, cracked corn, peas, lettuce, minnows, and crickets. If it matters she was recently nearly killed by an owl, but...

My mallard Gabby has this white fluid that drips from her vent, but this only happens when she is petted/scratched on the back. It smells pretty poopy and is sometimes thick and very white, but sometimes thinner and more transparent. Other than that this never happens. Is this a cause for...

I just bought an above-ground pool to cool off during the hot summer days. It has a filter and everything. My mallard Gabby has never had a huge pool like this, so I'd love to put her in there with me. She is a pretty shy duck unless she is around me, so I know she'd have an absolute BLAST if I...

I have a hen mallard Gabby who has been laying a lot of eggs recently. In her outside pen, which is filled with hay, she has made a nest. She would sometimes lay them in her inside pen, or anywhere inside of my house. She had laid 5 eggs in her nest that I had noticed and the next day they were...

My mallard layed her very first egg earlier around 10 this morning, and it was a normal egg and everything. 6 hours later she was acting very strange so I knew she was gonna lay another one, then this thing came out! :hu Does anybody know what on earth happened??

Hi there. My 5 month 8 day old duck Gabby laid her first egg today! :D What I was really wondering, though, is will she keep laying an egg every day for like 7-10 days like a duck in the wild? The reason is I live in the Chicago area where temperatures right now are below zero and I've never...

I had 2 flying wild mallards. I live in a suburban area with lots of houses. I would take my ducks flying everyday and they absolutely loved it and always came back to my house and would find me when flying and land near me. Whether they flew around my neighbors house back to my yard or around...

Hi. I'm trying to figure out what my mallards are. I'm 99.99% sure Gabby, the one closest to the camera, is a hen. The other one, Izzy, is the one I'm trying to figure out. I've seen Gabby quack before that sounded like an adult mallard, but she isn't quite fully developed. Izzy still has a high...

I got new ducks today and one of them was very small. They were sleeping for 5 hours so I woke them up to go outside in the warm weather and have a warm swim. They did fine but now the small one looks really bad. She is breathing very hard and deeply and is sleeping through the other ducks loud...

I have a cage that the ducks are in, but it is not big enough to fit my pool inside, which is pretty big. The only time they can go swimming is if someone is sitting out there with them because there are predators around such as hawks that sit in trees above the pool, so I can't leave them out...

Last year, I ordered from Metzer Farms hatchery. I'm not sure why, but I chose this hatchery which is a 28 hour drive from where I live, in Chicago. I ordered the minimum of 2 ducks. The first time, I received the ducks dead after waiting 3 weeks after paying for them to ship. They disregarded...