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    Ancona Ducks

    The breeder that I use is Boondockers Farm in Beavercreek, Oregon. I know they ship to Canada, though I'm my sure if the last hatch has already happened.
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    Your Typical Routine w/ a Small Flock?

    We have a fairly small flock. 8 hens of all different breeds, as well as a breeding trio of Ancona Ducks (two ducks and a drake, though we will be adding one more duck here soon). This is our routine: Morning (whenever I wake up): Open hen house door, open duck house door. Put three to four...
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    Ughh, rats! Help me convince my husband to poison them!

    Hello, I need help. We have a rat problem this spring in our yard. We have both chickens and ducks, and now RATS. We pull the food up at night, but they are out during the day scaring the ducks (who are scared of EVERYTHING) and eating the food constantly! My husband won't use poison because he...
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    Breeds of ducks please!

    I'll put in a vote for Ancona ducks. They are gorgeous. But I am biased. :)
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    ancona ducklings

    http://boondockers.sharepoint.com/Pages/Poultry.aspx They are local to me in Portland, not sure where you are from, but they ship them as well. If you happen to be in Oregon, they have them at the farmers market this weekend half off! I'm going to pick up a couple myself.
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    ancona ducklings

    Have you tried Boondockers? I got Ancona from them a few months ago, and they are doing great!
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    Ancona Ducks

    I have two questions for you all. First, I am wondering when the crested gene shows up in Anconas in the form of the crested puff on the back of their head. I have an Ancona duck who has seemed normal until now(she is almost 9 weeks old) but in the past few days, she is seeming to have some...
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    Post Pictures of your Baby Animals!!

    Here are our Ancona ducklings a few days after they hatched. We sold two of them though (the one back right and front right) and picked up another female chocolate, and just have a breeding trio now. This is two of the ones in the picture above now, at 6 weeks. Ingrid (the black one on the...
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    Duck Names

    My Ancona Drake is Fig. The two Ancona girls are Ingrid and Tallulah. :) And since it's similar, my chickens names are: Isadora, Violet, Henrietta, Harriett, Sugar Magnolia, Petunia, Olive, Tillie, and Ginger. We also have had a Delilah, Cordelia, Zoe, Lucille.
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    Oregon

    Boondockers Farm in Beavercreek is hatching Saxony and Ancona ducklings. We got Ancona from them and are in LOVE!
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    What time of day do your Hens Lay?

    Mine lay at odd hours of the day and it changes every day. Though I almost always have an egg first ting in the morning when I let them out, but I'm not sure if she is an early morning or late night layer. One of my white egg layers always lays in the evening after about 4, most lay earlier...
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    Ancona Ducks

    I figured I would give an updated photo of our little trio. We originally bought four straight run from Boondockers Farm in Beavercreek, OR, and just my luck ended up with three boys and a girl. We decided to keep the chocolate drake and sold (what we believed to be) the blue and the buff males...
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    Rhode Island red laying green egg??

    I am not at home to look at my RIR, but I don't think that she has dark flecks in her feathers or the dark tail feathers like the hen on the right has. She is very much just a ginger red color all over if I remember correctly. My Ameraucana(Probably EE actually but whatever) has dark tail...
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    Do you have advice about housing chickens and ducks? Please post your photos of housing that works w

    10x13 is not anywhere near big enough for fifteen ducks and ten hens if you are not planning on letting them out. Or are you just talking about keeping them cooped in the coop while they are babies? If you are going to build a run or let them free range then it is a nice big space for them. Keep...
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    Broke my Broody, will she return to laying eggs?

    She is the same age as all my other hens, just a few months under a year. They are just started laying in March, so she is a new layer. She laid every day until the broody happened though! I'll definitely make sure my husband gives her a chance. He will just have to butcher twice if she doesn't...
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