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    3 month old drake attacking older female

    Thank you! Would you hold onto both the other males longer to determine personality? I know a 2 to 5 ratio wont work in the long run.
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    3 month old drake attacking older female

    We have 2 year old ancona females. 3 months ago we hatched 6 duckling. 3 male and 3 female. One of the males was often kept far away from their little flock by the other 2 males. We decided to keep the ostracized one due to his coloring and separated the other 2 drakes from the rest. For the...
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    Rhode Island Red small yolks

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    Rhode Island Red small yolks

    Our Rhode Island Reds are 5 months old and are laying well but their yolks are tiny. They are half the size of our other chickens. Is this a characteristic of this breed?
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    Help! Cracked egg Day 16

    Made it until 4th days before hatch and then it died. Suspect infection since the egg turned dark around the crack and then spread. Thank you for asking! Next time I’ll isolate the broody hen from the other chickens.
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    Help! Cracked egg Day 16

    Thank you! We‘ll see what happens
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    Help! Cracked egg Day 16

    Yes, it’s in an incubator now. The nail polish won’t be absorbed into the exposed membrane?
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    Help! Cracked egg Day 16

    I had a hen sitting on 2 Pekin duck eggs. I was pretty sure one wasn’t viable when I candled on day 12. This morning, day 16, that egg was out of the box and crushed. The other egg was still in the box but one of the hens had pecked it. Membrane is broken in one place and dime sized area has no...
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    Yoke left in shell after hatch

    Thank you! Good to know. Little one appears to be doing well, very active.
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    Yoke left in shell after hatch

    one Ancona duckling hatched this morning but looks like a lot of yoke was not absorbed. Is this amount normal?
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    Do I keep eggs with damaged air cells upright during hatch?

    Thank you!
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    Do I keep eggs with damaged air cells upright during hatch?

    They have been large end up the whole time, rotated and tilted 45 degrees 3 times a day. Day 14 now.
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    Do I keep eggs with damaged air cells upright during hatch?

    We have 9 duck eggs that had damaged air cells successfully incubating at a 45 degree angle. Do we leave them in this orientation during lock down and hatch? I can’t imagine they won’t turn the egg carton over as they work on hatching.
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    My first duck eggs :)

    Is it a Blue Swedish?
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    Separating drakes

    We have a new flock of 8 ducks. At what age do I need to separate the extra drakes from the hens?
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