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    Waterglassing Duck Eggs

    Has anyone on here tried waterglassing in general? If so what were your results? I prepared two half gallon jars of eggs but have no idea if successful until I wait and try them. I used the huge pickle jars, made sure they were clean then did 1 ounce of pickling lime to 1 quart of water. I was...
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    Same Crack in every egg

    Thank you!! We will see if it continues I suppose
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    Same Crack in every egg

    There is bedding down, I doubt it. However that could explain why the crack looks exactly the same and is in the same place on the egg. I just don’t think where it is being laid it would crack
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    Same Crack in every egg

    We have had the exact same crack in the exact spot of what I believe is our Cayuga’s egg for 3 consecutive days now. What could be causing this?
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    Duck Not eating?

    Yes my exact fear. Hopefully strange behavior ends soon
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    Trying to find out what gender my duck is. Help!

    Definitely looks like a fawn and white runner and a buff duck. They are beautiful! They look young where your best chance of knowing is sexing by voice. They might even be too young for that too. Do you know how old? To sex by voice pick them up and if they are quiet they are probably a drake...
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    Please give me ideas on what could be going on with my Pekin.

    First part sounds like my problem right now. Don’t eat feed but is drinking and getting around fine but it isolating herself from the rest of the flock. I don’t have the wing problem but I’m just not getting my girl to eat. I think she is isolating to get away and maybe heal up from being sore...
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    What breed are my 4 pretty ladies??

    They look like rouens. Rouens are similar to mallards but get bigger and are better layers. They have an extra stripe by their eyes too
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    Khaki Campbell genders

    At this stage voice sexing will be your best at knowing. Males are quieter whereas the hens have this loud what I call a “honk”. They are still young yet though so they might not have found their voices either. About 10 weeks is when they should have their drake vs hen quack. If you YouTube it...
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    Duck Not eating?

    Okayyy update! So earlier when I had went and checked on the runner duck because grabbing her and locking her up I noticed our saxony was laying by herself. At first I thought it was odd until I saw the rest of the ducks weren’t too far away and I didn’t think much of it. Fast forward to now...
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    Duck Not eating?

    We have a khaki drake, so he’s not very big. A welsh harlequin. A little bigger than our khaki but still not huge. But we also have two blue Swedish and they are a bit bigger. Maybe she was mated and is just weak and sore from it. I’m going to sit with the dog kennel at night in the one with the...
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    Duck Not eating?

    Thank you !! She acts completely normal and today again I got down and they are all together and she way off down stream. I personally haven’t seen her bullied or over bred but could this be what is causing her to not want to eat with the rest and to go off alone? We have one drake too many. We...
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    Some pictures of my gorgeous ducks 🥰

    Beautiful!! Our welsh harlequins name is Harley too!!
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    Duck Not eating?

    Update. Today she pecked at some food we threw on ground for them. It was just barely but it was improvement from seeing her not eat any feed for several days. I thought it would get better from here… unfortunately I do not think that is the case. I went out just now to lock up our ducks and...
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    Duck Not eating?

    Thank you !
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