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Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
Well we went ahead and removed the last 5 today. I broke each open (if I found one that was fertilized I would know better) but of course, as you all said, we have two females and all eggs were unfertilized. I did find it strange (interesting?) that the eggs were of 3 different kinds inside... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
Odd update. So last night she woke us up at 2 am. Her nest is in a window box by my bedroom window and she jumped up and thumped into the window. When I watched her, she was moving two eggs and I had read they will sometimes move duds so I watched which two. She had also gone in the pond and... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
ok so that would be next Friday for 35 days from when she started sitting on them... A friend (who has ducks) pointed out that we do have a large Muscovy population around us so there is that, albeit slim, possibility one flew into our yard and mated? But considering our amazing pond and water... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
Thank you! I love getting pics of all my animals :) OK, so the consensus is questionable duck (one on the right in the dual photo and also the one below (same duck) is that she is a she. I will say also in the past few days I've seen her gathering materials and making a nest of sorts... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
So sorry for the lack of reply. For some reason it stopped notifying me! Here is "mama" on the left and the "other" is on the right... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
@Miss Lydia I was wondering the same about taking the eggs daily (as we did with the other breeds) next go around. It's those hormone levels, and being a mom, where I put myself in her shoes (unnecessarily?) like we're taking her children away while her hormones are in full effect (she is... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
Thank you that's what we thought, too, based on the carnucles and her physical size (she's smaller than the other one who is currently brooding). She is at least 1, maybe close to 1 1/2? They are not from the same hatch but the same season. Not sure of her exact age though. OK well we'll wait... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
Yeah, we definitely have thought it through and if they hatch we'll keep them here (and deal with the rest later but are aware of the implications). I am 90% sure they are not fertilized but I just don't know and she seems so good at it, protectively squacking when we come near, moving them and... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
This happened to be taken today, but it's not full body... I'll have to try to get a full body later? And I actually believe this is a girl but the fact that I am not 100% leads me to be wonder about the eggs (what if it is a male and the eggs are fertilized). I'll have to look up candling! We... -
Take or leave the eggs? Advice and Opinions needed!
I have a bit of a dilemma and I could use your advice. I've had Cayuga and Pekin in the past, both great layers but not brooding so it was easy to just scoop the eggs. Now I have two Muscovy. We were unsure of either sex but assumed the bigger to be male and the smaller female. Well, the bigger... -
Ducks in turtle pond??
No no ducklings at least not any time soon and they would have a very hard time getting up the 3' wall... but it's a slider so no not snapping. More concerned about the safety for the ducks and eggs if they drink and swim in the pond... -
Ducks in turtle pond??
Question..... we have 4 Cayugas and one of them got smart and realized we have a backyard pond! It's a raised pond and about 7' x 7'. My question is... can the fact that it is a small turtle pond have any ill effect on their eggs when they start producing? Salmonella etc... Thank you for any... -
Starting again... advise on genders please?
Our lost Pekin was also female. We had originally wanted all females as we were mainly interested in eggs. The reason we thought of the drake was a few reasons. One was protection (but thank you for dispelling that!) and the other was if we wanted to have more in the future it would make more... -
Starting again... advise on genders please?
that was our thought as well but am not finding luck finding a bird in the area...I'm checking out petfinder etc, hoping to find one locally! -
New member-duck owner
Hello there! We first became fowl owner a little over a year ago when we got two Pekin ducklings (hatchlings really) from a local farm. Our hope/intent was to have two females (which we did!) to lay eggs and then when they stopped laying eggs, they would be slaughtered for meat. We've used...- mysgyn
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