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That was on my mind.... and one of the reasons I came to ask. Thanks for the reply!

Thanks.... yea they were already frozen solid by the time I found them around 6:30...... so I figure there wasn’t really any risk of just chucking them in the freezer.

So a month ago a pack of coyotes got our duck flock 😢 They took 4 of them off and left the other 5 decapitated. The temperature that night was 10degrees.... so when I found the 5 bodies in the morning they were frozen solid. The only damage I could see was they were missing their necks and...

So a month ago a pack of coyotes got our flock 😢 They took 4 of them off and left the other 5 decapitated. The temperature that night was 10degrees.... so when I found the 5 bodies in the morning they were frozen solid. The only damage I could see was they were missing their necks and...

First of all, sorry for some of the contents of this post to those of you that look at ducks only as pets. We got them for our homesteading. About 4 years ago I bought 15 Black Magpies from efowl.com. I ended up with 4 females. We put all but 2 of the males in the freezer. We lost 1 male the...

After 4 and a half months since we got our Black Magpie ducks we got our first egg this morning! Yay Kind of tan colored. My wife was hoping they would be more greenish... due to her Dr. Seuss love (maybe some of the others will have a slight greenish look)

We have a flock of 15 black magpie ducks that are 9 weeks old. A couple weeks ago we noticed one of them wasn't getting his feathers in as well as the others and was limping a bit. He spent mot of the day just sitting under the coop ramp. We left him overnight and the next morning he came out...

Morning nap time

Received 15/25 black magpie ducks this morning from efowl. All arrived safe and look good. Contacted them via email this morning and they responded in 20 min saying the other 10 should ship next week. So I guess so far so good.... have nothing to compair it to though.

Pic from when we first got them home:

Following this thread closely. Our baby magpies arrived today https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=516437 So we'll need to do this in a while.

Got them from eFowl. Took about a month to get them and we ordered 25 and we only received 15 this morning. But I emailed them as soon as they arrived and they got right back to me and said they hope to mail out the others early next week depending on hatch rates. So good service so far. All...

The farming adventure has begun!