My butterbell isossing a huge patch of skin under both sides of her wings. I'm worried when she is mating this is happening what can I do for her it looks so painful.
you did what you could. it could have been stress too. if you have any more ducklings and notice this behavior you can also separate the one being mean. i had to with my muscovy ducklings now they all get along. it sounds like you have your babies inside please be care if you have a heat lamp...
the top one was noticed last night about 10 pm the bottem pic is same egg at about 830am. she or he has only been chirping randomly one or twice. this is my first ever hatch. they started with mommy but at day 34 she decided not to sit on them and its cold outside i gave her all day to go back...
this is my hopefully soon my new baby muscovy she is hatching what i call breach she is not at the air pocket. and its been 24 hours she is still peeping at me. lol. im super excited. they are inside now mommy decided she wasnt going to sit on them anymore. this one has 2 other siblings that im...
here is a fact some peope will boil and eat an egg that has a developing chick or duckling in it. it is called balut. now how would that be for flavor change..lol. i have one rooster with 12 hens so that all the hens are not "abused". some of the eggs that i do get are fertilized and will have...
Hello. I too am in nh northern nh. I have 2 nesting boxes and currently have 2 broody girls I plan on taking the ducklings inside once hatched. Your pen size is fine.
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these are some more of my babies I have 7 muscovy. Hoping to hatch more..3 male 4 female and these guys are my pets. The ones I hatch are for sale and dinner.
the bitten pic is sophia and princess bot are currently broody. Sopias day 35 is wed but im not confident. Princess is day 21 and all of her eggs are growing wonderfully. Im super excited these would be the first hatched here.