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Anyone ever heard of a turkey hatching a duck egg??
Hello.............looking to see if anyone has any Canada geese or goslings they might need to find a home for. I have a couple and since Stromberg Canadas have come to an end, we were trying to get a couple more so our Canadas wouldn't be alone. Anyone in the Maine area please contact me at...- milkweeds
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- Forum: Ornamental Fowl (Swans, etc.)
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Help please
I keep my duck eggs about 80-90% humidity...until they are all out. and once I see a crack...I make a hole big enough to breathe well. I recused 10 duck eggs last june and had 8 days left. The mother laid them under a windy tree and when they began to pip...and crack the egg I made a nice eraser... -
7 month old mallard, clipped wings has left the yard, would the cold winter bring her home
I clipped all my 7 month old ducklings ....... One duckling got out of the yard and went to the farm next door. I don't think that farm will supply her enough food for the winter to sustain life...as there are not animals there , just an old barn and garage that one can crawl under and 2 ponds... -
We live on a river. I have a wild mallard/ her 4 babies that eat our chicken feed every other day
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ you need to call a hatchery...and find something to be a friend....ducks come in all year round -
Canada goose wings issue
Looks like angel wing to me...I have had it many times...even in my geese...I have Canada geese and if I had that...I would get a ladies M size pantyhose.....cut across the crotch.....and put elastic at the neckline of the goose...and lay firmly down the wing as it should appear....leave it on... -
Can a fertile egg be refrigerated and later be put in an incubator?
I am going to try hatching a couple eggs that I had placed in the lettuce crisper. One of them was laid by my favorite Duck,....... this week she wandered off the property and a dog attacked her, she somehow waddled home and passed away the next day, So I wanted to hatch a couple of her babies...- milkweeds
- Post #35
- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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7 week old ducklings fly back home
I am just busting at the seams to tell this hililarious story and if you bare with me...you will find it most unusual. I had 16 mallard ducks, 6 adult and 10- 7 weeks old ducklings. I have a 2 acre meadow where everyone was playing until about 7 days ago, The baby ducklings were becoming bullies... -
We live on a river. I have a wild mallard/ her 4 babies that eat our chicken feed every other day
I have raised ducklings for about 3 years now....I find they can stand cooler temps after week 3............I would keep the heat on....only enough as they display a walking about without huddling. At night many times I place either pine chips or hay in one corner and mold it like a nest they... -
Mallard eggs rescued from cold
Mallard Ducks Discussion in 'Ducks' started by milkweeds, A moment ago. if(window.location.hash) { var postMatch=window.location.hash.match(/^#post_(\d+)$/); if(postMatch) { window.location='redirect.php?requestPejiiil Mar 11, 2015 I wanted to tell about my experience with a... -
Mallard laid eggs under a cold windy tree
I wanted to tell about my experience with a female mallard that laid her eggs under a windy tree. She had been gone for about a month and when I found her just a bit away from our home,she was sitting on 10 eggs. its was about June 1 2018....the weather was about 34 degrees in the morning and... -
My goose has never laid an egg.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ the yard here is wide open and we do a sweeping check because we have mallards that lay eggs in the yard sometimes. this whole thing makes me laugh....everything is so nebulous ....we are taking our so called female to the... -
My goose has never laid an egg.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your input..................Doesn't it follow that females have a high pitched voice and males are low...? He is quite aggressive and will not come to me when called, but rather show authority with lowered... -
My goose has never laid an egg.
this is the only pic I have to date of Paddy who I have been thinking was a female...and her best friend Bowzer...in between are the Canada geese they adopted together. Now even tho Paddy has not laid an egg as yet...she has a high voice...where Bowzer has a low voice....jean ( Paddy is in...