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Very interesting idea Gerald! I will Have to try that.. I have been doing 100% incubation in my incubators .. With the exception of three eggs I have under a Muscovy

Nice.. I've got a silver pied male and an IB split to white so there's definitely a chance I could get some pied babies

I hope it's just a molt.. fingers crossed. I'll have to pick up some black sunflower seeds

The picture above is what my brown duck used to look like when she was healthy and vibrant, about 7 months ago.. she was a nice rich brown and had dark brown/blue sheen to the tips of her wings... the picture below is what she looks like now.. it's almost like she has been bleached or...

I'm at a loss.. I have two female ducks and one male duck in our poultry run and the two females have been losing color in their faces and the one duck's feathers are getting lighter.. it's the strangest thing.. my two females are a bit older (5-8 years old) but I have a hard time believing that...

Thanks Kathy! Will do. I'm just so excited to have a live chick .. I had terrible hatch rates this year.. I had a lot developing great that were active in their shells and just quit around days 26-29 and this is the only chick that made it out alive. After putting another calibrated thermometer...

I'm tending to lean that way as well because I suspect that this egg came from my white hen as she was the first to start laying a little over a month ago and I saw my oldest IB peacock after her quite often.. bummer I'd love to have a little pied baby though

Hello friends! I don't have much experience with peachicks and was hoping some more seasoned peafowl owners/hatchers could give me their input on the color of this little guy.. I know some type of India Blue.. He's got white flights not sure if he's pied or just split to white.. This is my...

Very interesting tmorgan46! How did you construct your filter and about how much did that cost? Is that just a garbage can??

That's what I thought too .. she was found wandering outside a neighborhood begging for food and couldn't fly away with her other duck friends when winter came. I'm wondering if someone dumped a khaki campbell that mated with a mallard

I do like the functionality of the rubbermaid stock tanks .. the 300 gal is $200+ at TSC though .. these pond inserts are only $59 at Menards.. I'm wondering if I can get a stock tank replacement drain/plug ..

I volunteer at a wildlife rehab center on the weekends and we have these pond liners in each of the waterfowl units .. what we do is sump pump the dirty water out with a pump and an old hose .. it works pretty well .. I like the idea of a drain better though

Hi all ... I volunteer at a wildlife rehab center on the weekends and we unfortunately get a lot of calls on domestic ducks dumped into the wild .. a lot of times after being given as Easter gifts and then the families realize how much work keeping ducks are.. I have adopted quite a few of...

Hi all! I currently have a large kiddie pool for my ducks in the back of the run they share with a handful of chickens and peafowl.. it's one of those $10 blue ones you'd find at Walmart.. pic below We're doing a lot of landscaping around our coop and I've been thinking about buying a...

Hi all - I have a nipple watering system in our poultry barn for my peafowl to use but I never see them use it. More often then not I catch them drinking out of dirty puddles, the duck pond, etc. This led me to put a 5 gal waterer in their run/flight pen since I was worried about them drinking...