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    Why are duck eggs making my husband sick?

    My husband has an intolerance to duck eggs and has stomach issues if he eats them. Has something to do with a protein in the duck eggs that is different than chicken eggs, so he can eat chicken eggs without any trouble. My kids and I have no issues with duck eggs. Doesn't sound like it has...
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    Raising Ducks

    Our adult Runners are fawn/beige and white. All of the ducklings have the same dad, a Pekin. I assume that the darker colored ducklings (see the pics of the ducklings in the pool) are from the Runner. They don't look anything like the parents.
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    Review by 'Paige_L' in article 'INTRODUCTION TO KEEPING DUCKS'

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    Review by 'Paige_L' in article 'Why You Shouldn’t Dump Ducks'

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    Raising Ducks

    (1) Are you new to ducks / when did you first get ducks? Newish to ducks. Got our first ducks last spring. 5 female/1 male (2) How many ducks do you have right now? We have 12 new ducklings! All about 5-6 weeks old now. Added to the 6 we already had, we now have 18 ducks. (3) What breeds...
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    Duck identification

    No, none of our adults are crested. We ended up with 2 crested ducklings.
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    Duck identification

    I'm not sure what type of incubator... my husband is a chemistry professor and has an incubator in his lab. He took the eggs to work and kept them in the incubator there. Lol. It apparently is a good one, because other than 1-2 duds early on, all 13 of the eggs he had in there hatched. All...
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    Duck identification

    They're so different from the parents. Seems kinda weird... but we're still fairly new to this. We got the parents last spring at a local farm store. Got them at about a week old. They were all plain yellow ducklings. As they grew up, 4 of them look like full Pekin and we just kinda guessed...
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    Duck identification

    They're from our ducks.
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    Duck identification

    We have 5 ducks that appear to be Pekin (all white) and one possibly runner (white and tan/beige). We recently hatched 12 ducklings. They're about 5-6 weeks old now. 6 of them were black and yellow and now have brown on their chest and a pretty grayish (or brownish?)/white feathers on their...
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    Help with a duck

    Last summer, we brought home 6 ducklings. (4 pekin, 2 runners; 5 female, 1 male) We decided that we would like to add a few others, so early this spring, we stopped collecting the eggs and left them to see if any of the ducks would brood. They did... but it didn't work out so well. We...
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    Help with ducklings

    We have 6 ducks. 4 Pekins and 2 Runners. 1 male (a Pekin) and 5 are female. We recently had some eggs hatch and I'm curious about their coloring. We have 12 ducklings. 6 are all yellow (2 that look to be crested) and 6 that are black and yellow. Our Runners are beige and white. We didn't...
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