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    Mallard Duck - Breeding Habits

    HI, they lay like chickens, every day but they have eggs that almost has the feel of Muscovy eggs. The shell is allot thicker and the eggs are a greenish, greyish colour. Not like chicken eggs that is white, beige, brown, if that makes any sense. The feel of there eggs is also more smooth...
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    Mallard Duck - Breeding Habits

    Yes thank you, that's what I meant.
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Hi, one of my Muscovy's started eating eggs. So I put her in the baby camp with the chickens that has little chicks. I wanted to sell her but she is making a nest and layed an egg. She has no drake with her now. Will she be able to lay all her eggs further without a drake? Or does she need...
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    Mallard Duck - Breeding Habits

    Hi, can someone tell me, how many times a year will a Mallard Duck breed? Is it once a year or is it like Muscovy's that is more than once? Thank you
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    Dry Fowl Pox - Theory

    I would really like to see the outcome of this LOL you'll see us all feeding our chickens eggs every time they look sick haha
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    Dry Fowl Pox - Theory

    About two weeks ago I had a chicken that suddenly had Dry Fowl pox. I looked on the internet but can't even find a case that looks as bad as my chicken looked. I thought she was going to loose her eye because it was a 1cm x 1cm big pox right next to her eye and her whole comb was covered in...
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    Blood on my eggs

    Oh ok thank you, I thought that could be it. I didn't get any more... so then I have two new egg layers. great
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    Blood on my eggs

    Hi, can anyone tell me... If a chicken starts laying eggs, will there be blood on it? I found an egg in the week with blood on it and this morning I found another one but it is definitely not the same chicken. The egg colour and size is different. So the only thing I could think of is that...
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    found this also, very interesting http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/genetics.html http://www.muscovyduckcentral.com/varieties.html
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    I'm going to take pictures tomorrow of my lot. I want to know their colours too. I can't see the difference between, lavender, blue, silver and I don't know what is fawn and pie. I just read it here and if I google it shows any colour muscovy and not what I google
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    Mite infestation

    Well I suppose since she is a duck you can probably put Epson salt in her swim water also.
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    Mite infestation

    HI, Not sure how true it is but I'm doing this in my chicken camp and I don't have problems really. If you braai (which South Africans do allot ) we take the ash and throw it in the camp over the grass and even in one corner for the chickens to scrub in like they would do a dust bath. They...
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    11wk Buff Orpington sickle feathers?

    I'm also saying Hen on those first picks.
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    First Egg!

    wow! Congratulations.... I got six Muscovy ducks as babies about two weeks after yours were born. Now I wonder if they are also going to start with egg laying. They are about 16 weeks now. I didn't think they would start egg laying till about another two months but this is giving me some hope...
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Please don't do anything. Learn from my mistake. I was helping my Muscovy babies because they went over their time and I killed one about every 2 days. Until I was left with 3 eggs. I thought I'm helping them because they are suffocating but in the end I killed all of them. I started with 15...
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