I just bought some crimped oats from my feed store and plan to mix it in with my duck feed. I read that there is 7.60 mg of B3 in 1 cup of oats. But I've also read some conflicting opinions on feeding oats. Are oats okay? Would a 50/50 ratio of crimped oats and starter be okay or is that too...
I'm incubating some eggs and still unsure about what breed of duck they are. Half are white and half are green. I have pekins, Ancona, mallard, and pekin mallard mix. I haven't been getting pekin eggs which is weird because even with the weather they normally don't go this long with out at least...
Hello, everyone! I'm The Duck Mother and I'm so happy to be here on Backyard Chickens! As you may have guessed though, I don't raise chickens I raise ducks :) But this site was practically my Bible when I was first starting out. Even though I'm still learning, I've come a long way from them and...
I'm currently raising Pekins, mostly for hobby and eggs. But now I wanna take it more seriously and start selling adults, ducklings, and eggs to my local farmers and online.
Before I would feed them as much as they could eat but I read that putting them on a diet can help egg productivity by...