AimToMisbehave
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@Amiga do you have any suggestions?
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Well.@Amiga do you have any suggestions?
Seems to me you might consider a similar approach, but rather than dealing with molters, you are dealing with adolescent ducks.
I must say that their first winter, the Runners were very very slender compared to their full adult body condition starting their second winter. We had more negative effects that first winter. I know Fünf, Acht and Sieben were all quite uncomfortable until I decided to keep them above 35F.
I have found it seems less stressful on everyone to mind the flock dynamics than to separate just the more cold-sensitive ones.
You might consider luring them with treats.
@pammy g How old is she? sometimes at beginning of laying cycle they can lay wonky eggs and also at end. are you giving oyster shell along with her feed and what feed is she eating? It can be worrying when things like this happen. it takes a good 24 hrs for an egg to go through it's process in the ducks body but sounds like your Runner is getting ahead of the game so give us some more details please.My runner layed a solid egg last night. Found it this morning. Then this afternoon She layed a rubber feeling egg. It was not solid. Then she layed just yolk and white no shell. What the heck is going on? I'm so worried. I thought only once a day was possible. HELP!!
Great news, always happy to hear of a great flock merge.Update: left the 'lings in with the bigguns overnight, and nobody seems to be missing any feathers or anything! They're all foraging together in one big happy group, and they're so focused on that that no one's over bothering to henpeck the littles! Flock integration success!
Azula is watching over everything so faithfully
Banshee is still mothering over the littles... she's a total natural, I hope this means I have at least one broody hen!!! Impa seemed so proud of that leaf. (Sorry about picture quality, these were taken with my phone from my bedroom window)
Still kinda figuring out how gates and fences work...