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28 days, there may be two eggs that are more like 24 days. I have attempted to candle them with a mag flashlight in a dark room and I can't see anything. I have never candled before so I may be doing it wrong. The duck egg that was put under her a couple days behind the others is hatching...

My hen has hatched out three ducks but none of the chicks. That means the chicken eggs were not fertile, right? I would like to move her to a larger crate and I am wondering if I should ditch the chicken eggs she still has.

I just had a bald eagle attack one of my duckies this week, he got her good, we had to put her down. so be wary like any bird of prey, if they see an oppurtunity they will go for it.

so i have rooser who is new to my flock (he is 13 months old, i was told) and i am just wondering when he will start doing his "job" such as staying with the hens-right now he sometimes stays in the pen while they roam and he has been going to bed about an hour before them, also fertilizing-i...

My neighbor chased off a bald eagle while it was attacking one of my little khaki campbells, Indigo. She called and I rushed home, but her ribcage was totally split open I could see her breast muscle all the way to her esophagus. I can't believe she was still alive, poor thing. My neighbor came...

Thanks for the reassurance. I won't worry and just wait and see.

Hello to the rest of the soggy northwest. I am on the Olympic Peninsula-me and my six easter eggers, two pekin ducks, two khaki campbell ducks and one khaki campbell drake that I just got today! I am looking high and low for a Maran or any blue egg gene rooster, let me know if you have one that...

I have two khakis and two pekins all 7 months old and I just brought them home a khaki drake. They were in the pen together all afternoon-eve but so far they want nothing to do with him. How long should it take for them to warm up? He has been very gentlemanly towards them so far. He just walks...

Hello, I am looking for any type Marans and/or Ameracuana hens and one rooster. Looking for good breeding birds for good egg color and laying not necessarily correct feather coloring. thank you!

i have six mail order EEs. what are the chances one of them will ever brood? how old on average would she be, when she started to be broody? i imagine because they are hatchery birds that they aren't the highest quality? they seem to be very healthy and happy so far, they just started to lay...

thanks for the info! i had no idea they could lay for that long.

Does a hen and her chicks need to be separated from the rest of the flock, if so, for how long?

Quote: Hi! This is funny I think you are the person I have been emailing about your CL add. I am in Port Angeles. I just started a little flock of six EEs and four duckies-I am aspiring to a colorful flock of happy egg layers.

from what i've gathered they will lay 3-4 years? but how long will they live assuming i don't have the heart to stew them?

I have four ducks and six easter eggers and i would like to sell their excess eggs. i feed them organic layer pellets and they free range in our pesticide free yard and garden during the day. so what are you guys charging?