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Ducks are not chickens. They need a lot more space and will not do well locked in a little coop all day. They love water and mud and turn many nice areas into mucky messes. But, they are worth it if you are willing to let them be the water fowl they are.

I agree that the brown one is a Golden 300 female. I wonder though, might the dark one be a dark Campbell drake instead? He is definitely a boy!

1st, get rid off the dead egg. It will only spread bacteria through those cracks. Also, stop spraying. Too much humidity is way worse than not enough. It also will encourage bacteria to get through those hairline cracks. The baby ends up sticky or too large to zip. Personally, I don’t add...

It could very well be a dark Campbell as well. Time will tell.

The puppy pads sure make clean up easy too.

If you ever find yourself heading this direction, I am happy to share.

The brooder plate makes a great place to sunbathe after swimming.

I had three Hookbill’s hatch ten days ago (my first babies from my pair). I had purchased a marble tower last year and it came with this blow up mat to keep the marbles from rolling away. It looked like a perfect baby pool to me! They have used it for a couple of days now and are loving it...

I also had an incubator with half developed chicken eggs and duck eggs lose power for over 12 hours. All hatched!

🤷‍♀️You might google Blue Fawn Call Duckling?

They look like Blue Mallards to me but that is not a duckling Hoover’s hatchery (who supply Coastal Farms) sells. If they are Mallards, I believe they should each have one of their back toes missing. All domestic Mallards are required by law to have one removed to tell them from wild Mallards.

If you try it, use Khaki drakes and mallard hens. Holderread says in his book that egg laying ability seems to pass from Khaki drakes. This cross would also be sex-linked for the first cross. All the boys would have black like a mallard drake and the girls would have brown and look like...

If hawks are trying to feed babies they are more likely to try and go after something they might not otherwise. It is that time of year. 🤷‍♀️

That sounds like a predator attack to me. Drakes can be mean. They can pull out feathers, pinch, and scratch. One can drown the other. But, what you are describing sounds like your boy had internal bleeding from a predator attack.

I believe that would work but you if would need to compare the labels to determine the dose. This is on Metzer’s sight: