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    Creative ways to separate drakes

    Over the years it seems every time I order ducklings or hatch eggs i get 80% drakes, and although we did put a few in the freezer, I hate to do that (not a fan of dark meat or butchering my flock regardless of how humanely we do it) I now have about 15 drakes, and in the past I've been...
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    11th Annual Easter Hatch a Long 2020

    Please add me to the hatch-along - I started the incubator with 13 on Thursday, I didn't see this until now, I'll add some fresh eggs now - another 6, and mark them for the hatch-along. So exciting!
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    Comment by 'Lil 2 U' in item 'Easter Eggers'

    My EEs are the most diligent layers - half of them lay all winter (without any supplemental light) and although I do agree that they are kind of willowy and not as bulky as my buff orpingtons, they lay larger eggs for their size. 90% of them lay every day from spring to fall, where as the...
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    FOLLOW UP TO: Keeping duck pond water clean... With minimal to no effort

    Sorry I didn't get a better picture of the skippy filter... it at the left, you can see the cattails sticking out of it. I'll do better this year.
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    FOLLOW UP TO: Keeping duck pond water clean... With minimal to no effort

    I experimented with duckweed and also water lettuce with a few cattails last year. For some reason, I couldn't get the duckweed to grow well, it might be too cool here at night, but it would never have been a problem in the filter, if it started to cover the surface, I planned to scoop up hand...
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    Any waste free feeder ideas??

    Lots of great ideas! Ive been meaning to build several of theses and have a bunch of the big pvc street elbows purchased but found it so hard to cut them the project was never fonished. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we wree using a standard galvanized feeder on the ground. Still havent hung it...
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    The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

    The plants are the top layer of the Skippy filter - but you are right, any time any of the birds has access to it they will chomp it down to nothing, so I have a very inelegant piece of horse fence around the filter to protect it from my voracious birds. I've been thinking about a swirl filter...
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    The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

    So we did manage to experiment with this, but certainly need lots of improvements. Here's what I found over the last 5 months. Unhappily, the resulting pond is NOT esthetically pleasing, but functional. We had a 20 gallon rubber pan we filled with water every day and drained, but ducks being...
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    How to keep baby ducks brooder dry??????

    This one is really old, but I know I reference old posts all the time. So many great ideas! I took a big tray (like the kind you get at a cafeteria) and covered it with hardware cloth. This way all the schnuffling would fall through ( and a good amount of the poop) for the first two or three...
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    The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

    Did anyone happen to save this pdf - it no longer seems to be available. I'd love to see it!
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    The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

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    How much does it cost to feed 15 ducks a week?

    What do you mean by gold fish? Do you buy them in pet shops or raise them yourself?
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    How much does it cost to feed 15 ducks a week?

    When I was a kid my folks kept about 80 chickens chickens on a farm that grew corn as a crop so we never bought any feed, they all got rough ground or whole corn kernels, and free ranged all day for all the greenery and insects they could find, and we had fat chickens, but we had lots of space...
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