Recent content by graham B

Am From what I have read here, it is up to the individual duck. I would have access to a clean incubator and have a brooder ready to set up, just in case.  She may do well, or not, but if this is her first time, only way of knowing is to see how it goes, and be ready to step in. Amiga...

Does anyone know if white chiltern ducks make good mothers. My 1 year old has decided to try and hatch some eggs. She has been sat for 9 days now and I am hoping that she knows what she is doing as I do not have a clue. She is eating and drinking every day and I have candled the eggs but am...

Thanks for this. Will look at the thread.

Amiga, thanks for the advice. I have been feeding the ducks peas twice a day and for the last few days a couple of them have been willing to take food from my hand. They still run a mile if I stand up but they have calmed down a bit.... I am also more convinced that I only have one female due...

I got up early this morning to let out the chickens and my ducks. I was working late the previous day and so the other half had to put them away. I have 5 chickens and 6 ducks. They live next door to each other in old converted dog pens.... The type gamekeepers use for their working dogs...

Thanks cluckcluck... Me too...

Did you mean that you inbreed your chickens? If so that's interesting as I have 5'chickens as well, hybrids for the eggs, but am looking to get a breeding trio soon. I also have 4 turkeys arriving in July...(hopefully)!! As for the eggs from the chilterns, the Internet seems to think that they...

I am glad that you don't think the chilterns are pekins. I was worried that I had been duped as not much info on them.... Do you know when the KCs heads will turn green if they are male? Or will the Tell-tail sign on their tail show first.... Also, do ducks partake in incest and is that...

I hope that you are right.... Lol. If not I will post a picture of them flying off into the distance....lol. I wanted runner ducks but the only place that I could find near me that sold them weren't very helpful. So I bought KCs and the chilterns... Which look very much like pekings!!! I had...

They go through a phase of being very frightened of anyone taller than they are, which is most of us ;) During this time, sit near them (3.5 metres perhaps), roll peas toward them, sing, talk, just hang out.  Stay low.  Take a nap next to the brooder.  It takes several weeks, but they most...

Yep.... They are very big.... The 6 go through a 20kg bag of feed every 15 days..... With little food being lost on the floor... They also free range all day every day and the slugs etc have really gone down in the garden.... Which Now looks like a duck pluckers factory as they are shedding...

Thanks for this... I have listened and listened to the ducks and watched the vids on YouTube and I still can't make my mind up.... As these are the first ducks I have ever had...I want to be sure before I have to trim down the flock of males.... They are also not very friendly as most of the...

They are just 8 1/2 weeks old. I think that they are too young to have the curly feather. Not sure though as these are my first ducks. They are noisy little beggars though.... Not much quacking just squeaking really.....

How can you tell just from a picture... I have been looking, listening and yet I still don't have a clue.... I had the whites down as males and 2 out of 3 KC's as males... Lol...