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I never use a chick waterer since they can't dip their beaks all the way and wash out their nostrils. I try to just use a milk jug with a hole big enough for their heads. Maybe a hole on each side but not big enough for their shoulders. Had a duckling get in and die one time. I have to make a...

At this new hatched age I use a little water bowl but when they are a week old I will use a milk jug with a hole cute out of the side so they can get their heads in it. But it doesn't really work to keep the wet down. At 2 weeks old they are out in the barn on the floor cage or on a wire bottom...

With 8 lavender scovie ducklings and 2 splits already out in the day play pen and night time pen in a coop I am not minding them too much. However, another 10 lavender scovie babes were hatched out yesterday along with a bunch of splits but I left the splits with the moms to raise and have the...

I try to raise mine in a brooder and then in small pens. Right now I handle them every day and before I have to pick them up I try to offer meal worms. Live, wiggly meal worms. They are still skittish under they get over a year old and then they turn into loves.

I will check on mine later today. I have 4 that are almost feathered in and 10 that are still fuzzies that I have in a brooder. There are some out with the mams but I can't catch those to see. I also have 6 hens on nests. It has been a long year for hatching from my Muscovy. These babies are...

I will never learn how to do this! I have raised up some this year and know my own boys from girls. The boys have grown into big monsters, they did feather out later but I could tell from their legs as they were maturing that they were boys. However, I have one chocolate pied that was given to...