Hi! Yes, I'm just outside of Albany. I may have found a home for the female but the Pekin, who is a drake, will need a home. Would you be interested in him?
Someone found these 2 ducklings in their backyard yesterday. Since there are no farms nearby we figure they were probably purchased at Tractor Supply and then dumped because they were getting big. We know the white one is a male Pekin. We're trying to ID the brown one. We were thinking maybe...
One of my ducks is having an issue with her vent. I noticed it in February or March when I picked her up to check her over since her poop was completely liquid (no texture at all, just brown water) and she seemed to be going more often than she used to. She is eating normal, acting normal and...
My magpie call ducks are currently molting. I haven't gotten any eggs out of them yet this spring so I'm a bit concerned. Everything I have read says that ducks molt after they are done laying for the season but they haven't laid yet. Is it safe to assume we won't be getting eggs from them this...
We are selling our trio of white call ducks since they no longer fit into our breeding program. We were told by the breeder that the drake was a 2012 hatch, one female was a 2010 hatch and the other was a 2011 hatch. The females have been laying since the beginning of February. We have tested...
We just got our first hova bator genesis and we aren't sure what is going on with the temps. The digital readout says its pre-set to 100.0 and its been fluctuating between 99.3 and 99.7 which seems fine.
But....
We also have 3 digital thermometers in there at egg level. 1 is reading 97...
You could possibly get Magpies out of crossing the drake with the other hens but since Magpie is a pattern it's kind of a tricky thing to predict. You would probably get some whites, some bibbed, some pied and then some variation of white with colored spots (ancona patterns of sorts). If you are...
Hi everyone! Not new to BYC but new to the call duck thread so thought I would introduce myself. My name is Tina and I live in upstate NY with my husband and 4 kids. We have had ducks in the past but decided to downsize to smaller ducks and start a project flock. We decided to work with magpies...