The picture turned sideways but can you guys help me identify what is going one with this little lady?
Few things - She had a nest of eggs outside of their house and we took it away. Since then she seems to be either not laying an egg or leaving half developed eggs in the yard. This is unusual...
I don't understand your advice. They used to lay eggs in their safe house. In the last few weeks they made a nest outside and started laying there. They still go in at night but then during the day lay eggs in the nest and sometimes she's sitting on them.
Do we move the nest? Can the eggs...
We have a Khaki Cambell who has made a best outside, it seems both our girls are laying in this nest and the KC is laying on them but only sometimes. We lock them up at night.
This has been going on for a couple weeks. I'm not sure what to so now. We wouldn't mind letting her hatch them but...
Does anyone in Portland have a place they know and trust to take their birds to have them prepared for eating? I had the number of one place but I didn't really like him on the phone or their schedule. Thank you.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I have found a few local hatcheries who have the few breeds we would like, unfortunately they still won’t have their little guys until March. So we wait, which isn’t a big deal. I would order from Metzer but it would end up being close to $70.00 and...
Thank you for your comments -
It seems the Portland, Oregon area is lacking in hatcheries or local farms that hatch ducklings let alone Welsh Harlequin.
I found one farm but they won't have any until April and Craigslist has had zero.
I found a feed store but they have Muscovy and...