I clean it about once a week. When I see that its dirty I clean it. I don't like to have my animals in nasty stuff. The window Idea is really great. I might just have to do that. I will have to ask my dad if the way the barn is built if that is possible! I use wood shaving for my bedding and hay...
I have noticed that last 4 times I have cleaned out my duck barn that there has been a VERY strong Ammonia smell. I have never smelled this before. I have had ducks for 4 years now. I have 16 Adults and 14 older babies right now in my Barn. I also have a adult guinea and 6 baby guineas. I have...
I am a first time owner of Coturnix Quail. What do the females sound like? I have a lot that sound like doves cooing. Is that a female call? So far I only have one male doing its call, but lots of rust colored chests.
I see that people give it to chickens, but have not seen anything about ducks. Also my ducks are for the purpose of eating the eggs! I imagine that you don't want to eat the eggs for a amount of time after they are don't with the medicine, but can I still eat the eggs after 2 weeks of the last...
DO NOT USE MEDICATED CHICK FEED FOR DUCKS IT CAN KILL THEM. Use Game Bird Starter! Also When I get new ducklings or hatch them myself I always give them Sav-A-Chick Electrolytes. It gives them a good start in life.
Thank all so much for welcoming me to the fowl family!!! Everyone seems so nice! If anyone has any questions about ducks I might be able to answer your questions! Thanks again for welcoming me in!
Thank you so much for the info. One last question I know when they ducks are starting to hatch you see their bills and the air cell is very slanted. Will I see the beaks of the keets when they are getting ready to hatch to know to put them on lock down? or should I just do it on day 25?
Hello I want to start off that I am new to this group, so if there is already a forum about this I am sorry.
So I have a friend of mine asking me to incubate some eggs for them. Their guineas are already laying!!!! I wish mine were :(
I have looked some of the stuff on-line but get different...
Hello everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that I an new here and hope to learn lots of good treads from some good farmer! I have lots of DUCKS. I am a duck person. I also have guineas. Gotta love them too! Quack Quack, Katelynn.
P.S. Im not a quack lol