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    Desert Geese?

    Thanks! I'll check out the Timothy hay and the flock raiser! I've never personally seen him eat the Racer, but he attempts to eat just about any other green thing he can reach, so my guess is that he's probably tried it at some point. We've got a roughly 900 sq.ft. pond that Randy and ducks can...
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    Desert Geese?

    Hey all, we decided to get a goose at the end of April 2018 and he's doing great so far! Yes, I'm going to order a female as soon as our hardware store opens up pre-order. The thing is, we don't have grass because it's so hard and expensive to maintain. We've got ground cover called Australian...
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    Toms Are Acting Strange...

    Hey y'all! So we bought two turkeys back in April (which makes them about 6 months old) thinking we were getting a mating pair. Turns out we got two toms. It worked out well enough as them seem to get along just fine. So here's my issue: While they were small enough and we were getting them...
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    Weird Duck Family

    I've never had ducks go broody before so I wasn't sure if that's what it was. Thanks. Yeah, they've got maybe a week before the two-month mark and we're going to have some *very* unhappy quackers!!
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    Weird Duck Family

    Alrighty y'all, I've had ducks for quite some time now, but my ladies are acting quite weird this season... I've got two ladies (a mallard and a Cayuga) that are on their nests for a second time this year. The first time they laid, the mallard hatched a single duckling and the cayuga hatched a...
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    Cayuga ducks and winter

    Hi! I live in the desert, so my winters aren't nearly as strong as yours, but I always used to just break the ice layer first thing in the morning on my ducks' kiddie pool and they did just fine =) Granted, you could also get something with a pump to keep the water flowing which would keep ice...
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    3 drakes, 1 hen...Help!

    Welcome, welcome! Until this past April, we've always penned our ducks at night, and they do eventually figure out where to go and what to do. But honestly, I've found that the best way to corral them is a really long stick. They don't like change, and a big stick is definitely change!! Also...
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    To clip or not to clip, that is the question

    Hi! We've had ducks in our family for the last fifteen or so years and we've never clipped ours. We only ever had three fly away of the twenty+ we've had. But, a couple weeks ago, some big dogs got into our yard and went after our ducks. Being able to fly was probably the only thing that saved...
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    Treating a wounded duck anyone?

    Thank you! Another question for you then... How would you recommend trimming feathers? Just with a pair of scissors or are there special feather clippers I'll need to pick up?
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    Treating a wounded duck anyone?

    Hey y'all! So yesterday morning, two big labs came into our yard and decided to play with our ducks (they're free-range, I guess, as we don't cage them anymore, and they have the freedom to wander about the property as they please). Our one Peking ("Runner") got caught by one or both of the dogs...
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