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    How to introduce one 5 week old duckling to a 16 week old flock of 3

    I have a beautiful female welshie who is now 5 weeks and currently living indoors as her brothers and sisters have all gone to new homes- sadly I could only accommodate one of the seven I hatched. She is doing wonderful and seems to really enjoy being in with us all. Especially me , she follows...
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    Ducklings update and food question

    Ducklings and ducks are just too funny
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    Ducklings update and food question

    Thank you everyone for advice - so far we tried the water set up in a roaring tray on top of sawdust - hoped that would solve it but nope, just water and saw dust everywhere instead, I then swapped out the sawdust for a puppy pad- there’s a little less water than before but not much to be...
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    Ducklings update and food question

    Hello, me again, Do ducklings need constant access to food or can we feed certain times of day a couple times a day? Our little ones are a week old tomorrow and oh my the mess! They are being cleaned out almost hourly - haha. They are lucky I love them. They can empty their whole drinking...
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    Newly hatched duckling with hernia or prolapse?

    Also not sure if there is anything into it but this duckling was our box baby, he was incubated in a box under a desk lamp for the first 10 days before going into the incubator, he was behind but caught up later in incubation, pipped first internally and externally but was last to hatch and like...
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    Newly hatched duckling with hernia or prolapse?

    He Hi. Im not an expert but I had 7 ducklings hatch on saturday and same as you, one had a red lump protruding from his belly button, he was also very weak, we kept him from others until fully dry and belly button drier and looked a little less buldging, then he went into brooder with the...
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    Ducklings - questions (advice welcome also) :)

    Thank you everyone. I will wait for a day its a little less urgh outside and take them out for a couple mins. I also think I will wait a few days then workout a plan with the other 3 and inductions. We have them all indoors so they are nice and warm and they are getting plenty of love and...
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    Any ideas on sexing our welsh harlequins ...

    They are just lovely aren’t they, welsh harlequins are my favourite breed atm, I didn’t even have an experience with them until now but they are just so beautiful Absolutely loving these 7- even with the amount of mess, mischief and poo! We have sexed them all and we have 4 females and 3...
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    Ducklings - questions (advice welcome also) :)

    Hello everyone, I just had a couple questions, we have 7 little ducklings - they are all inside in a brooder set up and will be for at least 4 weeks then I plan to move to garage before introducing to our other 3. My questions are... when can we start taking them outside to venture close by to...
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    Incubating duck eggs- advice pretty please.

    Ive made a new thread everyone of the babies so hopefully I got some help on sexing .. im so in love at the moment and my children are just obsessed. x
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    Any ideas on sexing our welsh harlequins ...

    As the title really, I have ideas ... definitely I believe see 3 girls and 2 boys ... what are your thoughts? Thank you xx @Slash3 tagged you as I made a new thread :)
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    Incubating duck eggs- advice pretty please.

    I will put up pics of them all separately soon and you cab tell me what you think :)
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    Incubating duck eggs- advice pretty please.

    Thank you, I appreciate everyone on this post so much. I was hoping I could get some help please from anyone who knows, number 7 our finally baby has just hatched, however he has a little red lump on his belly button, not huge, not bleeding but it is protruding a little. will he be ok? I have...
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    Incubating duck eggs- advice pretty please.

    We have moved the first 4 into the brooder ... we now have another two hatched in the incubator ... so just one to go I’m terrible, I still sit here looking at these thinking of all that happened yesterday- wishing the poor baby made it , that we didn’t help, or that we did help but it was...
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    Incubating duck eggs- advice pretty please.

    So in love already. Any one know welsh harlequins quite well and maybe could help with sexing? I definitely have one girl and one boy but two are really tough. Also is this amount of humidity/condensation ok for the others still yet to hatch? :)
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