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    Hands on hatching and help

    I have the spray leg and the crushed one in the bator. One duckling under the two mamas. I want to keep them in their nest box until all ducklings are there for their “first walk out” with the mamas. I’m also concerned about how two ducks may share one duckling. They fought over the eggs all...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Hi all I have two Muscovy females sitting on what was a nest of 16 that has somehow been reduced to a few. They are locked in at night so I’m not sure how, but my plight is with hatching. One egg hatched three days ago, and the drake got into the pen and we found the duckling dead in the yard...
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    Egg colour question

    The answer is pink and blue. Some are laying pink and some blue
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    Eggs with white rings

    Not all the time no. She seems to have stopped. Might have been stress related!
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    Chick looking up when standing

    Stella grew up to be a fine handsome healthy rooster
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    Duck problem

    She ended up coming through just fine, set her up in the bathroom and let her in the tub as much as possible. She got better after a couple weeks and was reintroduced to the flock.
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    Salutations

    Thanks so much! I have been a member for a while but never introduced myself!!
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    Salutations

    Hi all We are a small family farm of chickens, ducks, rabbits and children. We regularily sell hatching eggs, chicks, pullets and roosters; pet and meat rabbits; duck meat, Muscovy ducklings, and duck eggs. I also work outside the home. We had coturnix quails for a little while but want a new...
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    Duck problem

    Hi all! This is my first year in ducks, i have a muscovy trio in a small pond eating duck pellets and one of my ducks was off and on broody and then the day before yesterday I found her half in half out of her hutch, i put her in for bed, assuming she was broody again, and she stayed in all the...
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    Chick looking up when standing

    Hi So Stella is doing well, i just used the vitamin e and gave some twice a day for 3 days she stopped looking up and eats and everything now, she is much smaller than her littermates, will that ever change? It seems shes hardly growing!
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    I ended up with 13! Two partridge chauntecler x naked necks eeee i love them!! <3 the rest mutts its looks like of naked neck & orloff roosters over chauntecler, black copper marans, and olive eggers. I also have a silver salmon roo over a buff orp, a splash marans and an olive egger and those...
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    Chick looking up when standing

    Hi all Just hatched a batch and the last one egg took two days to hatch, an shes able to squat stand but she starts looking up and up an then falls on her back and cant get up. I think maybe its wry neck but I've read chicken develop it when they are older. Can they be born with it? I got...
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    Count me in! I am excited as we have never bred these birds before! Naked neck/easter egger roo and orloff roo over a flock of black/blue copper marans and partridge chaunteclers! About 15 set
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    Eggs with white rings

    Vet said this happens when the egg stays in one part of the egg duct for too long , like the chicken cannot find a nest or is stressed or snow happens etc
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    Hens or roosters. Also guess breed?

    Thank you!
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