Articles by WannaBeHillBilly

Winter 2018/2019 and the five gallon duck-waterer in the duck house is frozen solid. On top of that i broke my left ankle and all duck-chores fell onto my wife's shoulders… So i decided to go ahead and start to automate as many duck-chores as possible, starting with a maintenance free waterer...

After moving from Houston, TX to Charleston, WV in 2018 we visited a farm supply store just for fun and discovered six cute yellow fluff balls in a metal tub; the label said »Ducklings $2.99 each«. The store personnel told us that these ducklings were the last ones of the batch, growing too old...

For my Spring Ducklings of 2019 i did not want to use a heat-lamp for two reasons: First it is a fire hazard, regardless how well it is secured, second and more important to me, i want the ducklings to be able sleep during the night without a harsh light shining at them, thus getting used to a...

For the last week of January 2019 i ordered 15 ducklings from two different hatcheries: Five White Layer Hybrid ducklings from Metzer Farms Five Buff Orpington ducklings from Ideal Poultry Five Magpie ducklings from Ideal-Poultry Metzer Farms shipped the ducklings on Monday, January 28th...

Background story: We bought our property here in West Virginia in December 2017 and the previous owners raved about how much fruit they had harvested from the old Apple and Pear trees around the house. 2018 came and went away and we were utterly disappointed about not being able to harvest a...

Phase 1: Arf! Arf! Got you! You enjoy the ducks running in your backyard every day and you do your chores including daily egg-collection but then one morning one of your ducks won't come out of the house. You step inside your duck's house and there she is, sitting in a nest either anxiously...

When starting to raise ducks last year we were so inexperienced with everything, that the people at the local farm-store convinced us to spend a fortune for a prefabricated chicken-cube: After our ducks outgrew that little house and i built a large home for them on the duck-platform the house...