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We live in New Zealand. I've done some googling and there doesn't seem to be any local information about avian flu. I am waiting to hear back from a vet. Another one has died overnight :( my husband doesn't think it is the maize as the chickens eat that too and no signs of illness with them. The...

This morning I have gone out to let my Pekin Ducks out and two of them were dead :( I can see no outward signs of trauma, no blood or anything. One was a 4yr female and the other 4mth old drake. Yesterday the drake seemed to choke on his food and vomited up whole pieces of maize and liquid but...

Thanks for that. At what age do they usually wean? I'm happy to wait for that I don't want to upset Mumma!

At what age would you remove ducklings raised by their Mum? We have 4 pekin ducklings who are now 5 weeks old and are starting to lose their fluff. At the moment they live with Mum in a large pen to protect them from predators. We have friends who would like to adopt them, at what age can they...

Two of them are old enough as they laid clutches last spring (which produced 22 ducklings, 9 of whom survived) but nothing since or nothing that I have found! and the other female is one of those ducklings so is about 6mths old. They have a house but aren't locked in it and don't use it I often...

Yeslast year we got two flocks (? Correct term I'm new to duck keeping! ) of 11 ducklings so 22 total. As natural selection would have it only 9 survived. The remainder got taken by hawks or the wild cat that was hanging about :( but Daisy and Jemima were good mummies and did their best to...

Was just googling this question and it came up with this thread. We have 3 Pekin ducks for the past 6mths and I am yet to find a single egg! They are free range but only on two acres so you wouldn't think it would be hard to stumble across them! Any suggestions of where to look? Or is it...

One of my chooks was broody for about 2wks and then I thought I may as well put her to use so got some fertile eggs for her to incubate. That was 10 days ago and she has been happily sitting on the nest and needed encouragement to go out at feed time, this morning I have gone out and she is our...