Great Info. Thanks. I don't want eggs. They are just backyard pets. One last question. I have guineas also. The drakes won't try and mate with my guineas will they? I've heard horror stories about chickens but did not know if they would try and mount a guinea.
I bought 4 pet ducks at one week old. My hope was that I would have both male and female. Luck was not with me and I now know (from the green I'm starting to see on the head) that all 4 are males.
I really love my ducks and don't want to give any away, but the house I built was only for 4...
I have 6 guineas that have been together for over 6 months. Today I noticed that one of them had blood under the wing. I got it in the chicken house to catch it and put some blue-kote on the wound. I then saw that there was quite a bit of blood on the ceiling above the roots in the chicken...