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    Overwintering Ducks in Alaska

    I'll tell her :)
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    Overwintering Ducks in Alaska

    Sorry, Fishie Pond is my daughter, she must have logged on earlier and forgot to log out.
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    Overwintering Ducks in Alaska

    It gets to -50 below sometimes. I usually let them wander the yard during the day.
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    Overwintering Ducks in Alaska

    This will be my first year overwintering ducks. I was hoping to find out how cold is too cold for me to let them outside or to play in water. The wild ducks around here play in the water all year round in an area that has run off keeping it thawed out. However, this seems too cold. Also, If...
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    1 duckling down. Please help!

    Thank you, both of you! It's still alivetoday so I'll look into wasting disease and try the vitamins and such..
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    1 duckling down. Please help!

    About five days ago I fed and watered my ducklings as usual, took a few pics and started cleaning house. I peak at them frequently as I just can't help myself ;) When I peaked at them again one duckling was down. It seemed to be affecting one leg, so I upped the niacin through syringes and gave...
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    Duck feed questions [newbie alert!]

    What are the percentages of niacin and protien? Is it medicated? If it is medicated don't use it. You don't need grit until two weeks. After a few weeks switch them to grower feed. Although, i make my own food and don't switch back and forth and they do well without grower feed.
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    Help please!

    Sounds like you did a good job! Can't wait to see pics!
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    Ancona Ducks

    Yes, they are the standard ancona with buff coloring for spots. You can get suprises in your breedings and have some colors show up that you didn't know were hiding in there but for the most part if you have say, blue brown and black ducks then those are generally the colors in your flock. Keep...
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    Ancona Ducks

    Look up buff ancona ducks in google images. That should bring them up. When you purchase anconas you generally can't pick which colors you get as they run together. It's all by chance. Thelonger and more that you invest in them the better chance you'll have getting the colors you want.
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    Ancona Ducks

    So cute Darth Bantam! The ducklings in the pics look to be black. Thereare buff anconas, but not in this batch as I was hoping....
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    Help please!

    You need the humidity to be 45% until you stop turning them. Then the humidity will be 65% and the temp 95. If you have the humidity at 70% the aircell can't become big enough for the ducklings to hatch into.
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    Help please!

    If you can see veins and they are only 19 days along thenit is normal to see space. Can't wait to see pics!!
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    Ancona Ducks

    We had a blue/brown tri which is pictured, black, hoping for some buff (we have some hatching out as I am writing you). And I am currently working on getting some eggs with other colors. If I want to see some of the variations of a breed I type it into google images and scroll through the pics :)
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    kinds of ducks for egg laying

    Anconas, my favorite :) You can read about them on ALBC. they are the most endangered duck breed in the U.S.
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