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    Ancona Drake in Central NH

    We've got too many drakes and I need to rehome 1 male for our flock to finally settle back down. He's a tri-color male born last spring, and he's certainly frisky and ready to breed. He's the one staring right at the camera.
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    Handsome Ancona Male Duck

    I have too many male anconas for my flock, and our biggest male is getting a little too aggressive with my other two males. He makes absolutely gorgeous babies, as we had some this spring, but he's just not a great fit for the flock anymore. I want him to go to a home where he won't be...
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    Winter Help!!!

    I think that's the plan. She must be giving them something weird. I'm all for leftover salad stuff, but not when it leads to this horrible outcome
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    Ancona ducklings and hatching eggs for sale.

    What state are you in? I'd love to do local pick-up since I'm not looking for more than a few babies.
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    Winter Help!!!

    Thank you for the input. I hope this is it so I can stamp it out from happening again D:
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    Winter Help!!!

    Funny you say that--my property is blanketed in snow, but I live next door to my father and his current gf, who is ALL about feeding the birds leftovers. I think I need to make sure she knows what they can and can't have again, because I see her out there at least a few days during the week...
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    Winter Help!!!

    With the exception of one duck, they seemed to go peacefully in their sleep, and they weren't old or anything. They didn't look or act sickly prior to their untimely deaths, and this is literally the first time where we've had this happen. We have never lost a bird to anything but predators...
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    Winter Help!!!

    Lol yeah, I guess yeah, I should be clearer. Dumor layer pellet feed.
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    Winter Help!!!

    We do pine shavings in their house and they are walking around on snow at their leisure. They get grit with their feed I think more than once a week (I don't always feed them, sometimes the BF does), and we do purina chow from Tractor Supply, which is what we've used right along. I'm just...
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    Winter Help!!!

    This is my 4th winter with ducks, and it's easily been the very worst we've had to deal with for numerous reasons. We started the winter with more birds, which seemed like a good thing since they'd all help insulate each other warmth-wise and we're in NH where we've been getting a ton of snow...
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    Topic of the week - Keeping different poultry types together

    We keep ducks and chickens together. The ducks are small and large breeds, the chickens are NH Reds--we have found integrating the chicks/ducklings a pain in the *** when they are small, just because our adult hens can be very fussy. The birds all get along well, and when we let them free...
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    Is there a cleaner way to kill a duck???

    When we butchered 3 ducks this summer, we did something akin to method 1 and 3--we (as in my boyfriend and his friend, I couldn't be present for the actual kill) chopped off the head on a butcher block with a roll of plastic sheeting over the ground to catch any blood, then tied up the body by...
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    The Duck Thread

    Anybody want to take a guess what this little silver lady duck is made up of? We rescued her this summer, and she's quite a delight to look at. She is fairly good sized, as big as our anconas but a touch smaller than our pekins.
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    NH Friendly starter flock of mallard and mixed mallard ducks--5 birds, 4 females and 1 male

    We have a flock of 25 birds, and for space reasons we need to get it down to 20. These 5 birds were gifted to me this spring, and I just don't have the space for them over the winter in any capacity, and they're nice and we don't want them to be eaten. I'm hoping someone in the NH area would...
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    MALLARD THREAD...not rouens, Mallards!

    Agreed so hard. I'd kill for apricot or snowy mallards!
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