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    Ducks Won't Go In At Night

    I live in CT where it has been very cold at night. My 3 ducks wont go into their coop at night on their own. It is an up-purposed Little Tykes playhouse with hardware cloth over the windows and an acrylic panel over the upper half of the dutch door. I have a rigid foam insulation covered in...
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    Duck "attacking" my dog

    Last weekend I got two new ducks (reportedly 1 & 2 yrs old). Since then, whenever I let my dog out back my khaki drake (6 months old) runs over and starts biting at the dog. The dog has been okay around the ducks & my 10 chickens up until now but I am worried that she might "turn" and bite the...
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    Questions: twitching wings?? Feathers not sleek??

    Yesterday afternoon I got two ducks from a lady. She says 1 is a tufted khaki campbell/runner cross and the other a runner. I have a six month old drake pure khaki. This morning while I was & trying to make myself familiar to them, I noticed the 2 girls are almost always twiching, flicking...
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    Duck to drake ratio

    Was wondering everyone's opinion on the ideal drake to duck ratio. I have a drake near 5 months old (got his curly tail feather) and wanted to get 2 females. The woman who has some said 4 - 6 females would be better. I positively do not have time or room for 6, not even sure about 4 more...
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    Safe to mix ages?

    Thank you so much for the advice! I've had chickens for a year & half, he is my first duck.
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    Safe to mix ages?

    I know this may sound strange but do you think the "age difference" matters?
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    Safe to mix ages?

    I have a male Khaki Campbell born mid-March. I want to get a female. Would it be ok to get one that is about1 yr old already & laying? Would they have problems getting along? I do have the option to get 2 females. Would that be better? Thanks!
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    Safe flea beetle treatment around poultry

    I have always garden with pretty good success and not used any insect control except pulling off the occaisional offender. This year i started noticing on my potatoes (first time planting) and now on my tomatoes, lots of tiny holes. Flea beetles from what I have read. Although the plants are...
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    Bossy Khaki ducks

    I have 6 various breed hens that are 15 months old, 4 various that are 3 1/2 months and 2 Khaki Campbells (male & female). They have separate coops & nighttime runs but all free range all day. The last couple of weeks the ducks have become very bossy, chasing & nipping at the chickens when I put...
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    Moulting at 15 months or from heat?

    I have 6 hens (various breeds) 15 months old that have all but stopped laying. They were doing just great but then 3 started acting broody, and egg production went down. Now no one is broody but it's gotten very hot here the last 2 weeks & there are feathers everywhere! They free range all...
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    Duck house for cold climate

    Currently our 3 mo old Khaki pair are living in a upcycled Little tykes playhouse &'it's working well. We plan on building a wooden house for them. However, we do live in New England and think they will need something with insulation and something on the floor by winter. Any ideas out there...
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    Will this be an ok plan?

    From everything that I have read, medicated chick starter is not safe for ducklings. I bought unmedicated chick started and Niacin capsules at the vitamin store & added to the water. I found they were splashing so much of the water out that I decided to switch to Brewers' Yeast. I also got it...
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    Khakis not very friendly??

    My male & female are about 3 months old. I got them at about 6 days old. We tried to hold, pet, cuddle them a lot but since moving outside they don't generally come near enough. They both come when I call them, will quack loudly for a sprinkle with the hose, will eat peas from my hand but when I...
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    Khaki Campbell's?

    Look very much like my Khaki Campbells that are now 14 weeks. We got them from Agway and that's what they said they were. The male's beak is now not as dark as the female's and his head is getting a bit of the greenish iridescent tinge to it. Their body feathers aren't identical anymore but...
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    Post your Duck names!

    I have 2 Khaki Campbells, 14 weeks old now. The male is Lucky as in "Lucky Duck" and the female is Jemima. They were straight run from Agway so took a guess and named them and turns out I guessed correctly on male/female!
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