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They aren't the same species. So unless you have a laboratory and know how to splice DNA, it's not going to happen. There are breeds of tiny ducks. Better to look into those instead.

I'm looking for a few ducklings. Here's the deal. I sent some chicken and duck eggs to a teacher to hatch out in her classroom. It's her first year in a new school, and she's trying to do a great job. But she's never hatched out chicks before, and her chicken eggs ended up with a zero hatch...

My ducks have acres of pasture to roam in. He's just in jail because he's been raping the smaller hens. Unless he's something special, he's off to the auction tomorrow.

Your best option would be to find a rooster that was raised by a mother hen, in a flock where broody hens hatching eggs is common. Most people buy their chicks today as day old chicks, and the chickens never get to live in an environment with anyone bigger or smaller than they are. So of...

There is way too much inbreeding in the poultry world. Your birds will have hybrid vigor if you allow them to cross. However, if you are looking to sell heritage birds, you would get less money for crosses.

I traded some produce for what I though was two female ducks. Now it appears that at least one of them is male. I already have plenty of male ducks, so unless he's a special breed then I'm going to sell him. His feet are darkish and he has some blue at the end of his wings. Anyone have any...

This might work for someone who is from only 1 ethnic group. But my ancestors came from 12 different places. Just because my blood is from one area, dosen't mean the rest of my body agrees.

Momma cats often try to clear the field by scaring off any other creature away from their babies. She sees them as threats and no threat is allowed near her babies. But she knows that your the head honcho and is sucking up to you so that you won't hate her babies. I'd try to find the babies...

Give them some warm bathwater to play in. Not deep enough to drown them. (Yes, baby ducks can drown.) And not to hot or too cold. While they are playing, wash out their home. It worked before I moved mine outside.

Nigeria vs angora vs nubians??? I think that you need to first decide if you want a full sized goat or not. Then decide if you want milk or wool? While I'm sure that you could milk an angora, I've never heard of anyone actually doing it. If you going for milk, you might want to consider...

Good luck with the rescue, hopefully there is a happyending to your story. I would start him out on some sort of turkey/gamebird starter so that everything develops okay. Then transition him to a much lower calorie diet, with lots of exercise and green grass and bugs to look for and eat...

If she's a sweet hen who loves you, then it probably wouldn't hurt if you took one or two out and candled them for fun. But if she's a little wild, then it's best to leave her be and wait. As long as she has the room for all the eggs, it won't hurt if one or two isn't fertile.

Fill a container of water to body temperature and put the chicks in, make sure to keep their beaks outside of the water for air. After a couple of minutes, their body temperature will be up enough that you can stick them in a brooder and dry them with a blow dryer. Don't leave them alone...

Mine are free range over many acres of pasture and trees, so I know that they are getting plenty of nutrition from the bugs, worm, grass and anything else that they find out there. For the chickens, those cow pies can be the best. Undigested grains and maggots are the best meal ever. I've...

My chickens would love it if someone gave them fatty beef bones and strawberries. I would certainly love it if my neighbors bought them food. I think that you need to take a breath and calm down. Are your chickens molting? Is there any chance that they are laying elsewhere? Have they been...

If you have a homogenous flock, and you are introducing a single new bird that looks radically different, then it probably won't work. (ie If you have 20 two year old rhode island reds, and you attempt to put in a single 3-month-old leghorn, they they will try to kill her.) But if you have a...

Try posting a craigslist ad, with pictures, in a larger town in your state. It's possible that someone an hours drive or so would want them. Good luck.

So I have a 1588 Genesis Hovabator Egg Incubator that seems to have stopped working. The fan comes on, but the light dosen't come on and the temperature stays at room temp. (It worked fine when I unplugged it a few months ago????) Anyway, is the whole thing broken or can I just buy some...

I've had a similar war here, but I mine is with the skunk population. I've even had 4 new recruits in my 'war', my 4 tom turkeys. But they smell funky when they get sprayed.

I have 4 momma hens that already have 30 chicks combined, one showed up with a dozen chicks when it was in the twenties outside. The chicks are currently 4-6 weeks old and now I have two more broody hens. If the momma hens can keep their chicks alive through all the funky weather that...