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    Duck got DARK feathers

    How about Quackspresso?
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    Ducks put themselves in at bedtime!

    Do you put food in their coop before bedtime? Our runner ducks have an expectation to find food in their coop when we call "All ducks go to bed". It's a stampede, fun to watch every time. If I am late, they go inside their coop or wait and quack outside their coop.
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    Duck drama

    If you have room you could also add four or more females.
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    Ducks

    Welcome to the community. The clear tip is where the air bubble is. I suspect that the egg developed to some point and then stopped for some reason. In my experience when a duck egg starts to go dark from the inside it is no longer viable and may even start to smell. I hope I am wrong and wish...
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    Candling- why is it important?

    Candling the eggs in the incubator became a more regular activity when a foul rotten egg smell emerged from the incubator. Yes one can do it with their nose alone, but why wait until bacteria have more than begun to decompose an egg.
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    Urgent...

    The green peas is a good suggestion. When one of our runner duck hens came back from the vet she was not eating her usual food well at all. Peas in her water bowl got her attention, we also give them soldier fly larvae. Isolation is not going to work so well, but some rest is needed. We let ours...
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    Should I butcher or keep my drakes?

    I assume that different breeds could behave differently, such as the drakes being more aggressive, we have four runner duck drakes and seven runner hens, nine until a few weeks ago, that ratio seems to work. Would be interesting to hear others perspective.
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    Thank you for including me in the community

    I am one half of the parents of a small flock of Runner Ducks that we keep in our back yard. Seven of them came to us from ebay in the form of eggs and six females followed from a hatchery to even out the odds that the incubator stacked against the girls. Unfortunately a few weeks ago a Fox or...
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