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Hello all! I ordered several heritage breeds from Sand Hill Preservation Center and received my chicks and ducklings about a month ago. Now that they're feathering out, I've run into a problem; five of these babies look very different from the breeds I ordered! The breeds included on the...

I have a Khaki Campbell duckling, about 4 days old that we brought from the post office yesterday that suddenly fell ill this morning; the duckling was behaving fine yesterday and all of last night. However, within the last hour or so, he/she started breathing in a very labored way, and opening...

Hello everyone, I'll be purchasing some goose eggs from a local farm, and initially I was going to buy them just for breakfast and to blow out and decorate... but, I was thinking of trying to incubate and hatch out a few in a homemade incubator. The only trouble is, we don't know exactly how...

Greetings everyone! This will be my first year raising chicks and ducklings, and in the spring I'm getting a few Black Cayuga and Dark Campbell ducks. I was wondering, do ducks eat mosquito larvae/pupae? I know they're great at eating adult mosquitoes, but as our home backs up to several small...

Greetings everyone! For a few years now I've been wanting to add a flock of chickens and ducks (maybe even turkeys and a goose or two next year) to my growing list of hobbies including hand spinning, beekeeping, and gardening. I'm very passionate about growing and preserving heirloom, rare, and...