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    Laid egg in her swimming water?!

    Is that.. normal? my ducks are young. I have 2 and it may just be one who is laying. I have gotten one egg a day for the last week. This egg was either from this morning or yesterday morning, I can't be certain. I change the water about every other day. Some days the egg has just been sitting...
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    Can I have free range eggs... and eat them too? :)

    So I really like the *idea* of letting my flock free range. Reduced feed costs from all their foraging, and they enjoy it more than being penned. Happier birds, more varied nutrition, and they can do really well free ranging around here, with all our blackberries, and we even have some grapes...
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    antibiotics for ducks

    ...for one there's no duck specific instructions) all say mixed in drinking water, which would be about the most inaccurate way I can think of to dose *one* duck :) Does anyone know approx how much she should have? I'm thinking whatever is an appropriate daily amount, cut it in half and give it...
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    hurt foot!

    Thanks, I'm doing that. She tolerates it well, thank goodness! This is the duckling who hatched in my hand on easter <3. She's not particularly fond of being captured but calmed quickly on my lap inside. She's a nice little lap bird. Her companion outside was quacking very loud! Each loud quack...
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    hurt foot!

    Kids came in saying they saw the one of the ducks "hopping". I went and investigated and yep.. she's very reluctant to put any weight on her left foot. I brought her inside to get a good look. Her foot and leg are very warm to touch. I looked the best I could but I was scared to cause her pain...
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    Washingtonians

    ...I was able to see an air cell that looked about the size I'd expect this close to hatching. When I candled the 2 remaining eggs, I could not see *anything*. So I wonder if the one I could see into exploded, I just wasn't able to see into it today for whatever reason, or, if not as many eggs...
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    Washingtonians

    Sneak them under her while she's sleeping? What about the chicks? Would they readily accept their new adoptive mama? I can call a couple feed stores and see who has the youngest chicks. Man, I really had beginners luck with my first hatch! It went so well. The 2nd hatch only sucked because I...
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    Washingtonians

    Hi, was wondering if anyone here either has, or knows someone who has, an incubator full of eggs due soon? Or at least due sooner than 21 days from now. And would be willing to sell me a few. I want some for my broody that have already had a head start. I live in Kenmore, will drive anywhere...
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    SO many exploding eggs. Why?

    I wonder if I can find someone on craigslist with an incubator full of eggs due within the week :( She's already been sitting over 3 weeks (including the time before I set eggs under her) She's been SUCH a good mama to her eggs, I want her to get some chicks, and I don't want her to have to...
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    SO many exploding eggs. Why?

    This is my 3rd hatch, but first hatch under a broody hen. I started with 8 eggs, one I believe she broke on accident in the first couple days, and a couple days ago one exploded under her as I was picking her up to make her go take a break. Yesterday I saw an egg shell in the corner of her...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    oooh man.. I can never unsee, or unsmell that. This morning I went and picked up Sunny for her morning break. As I picked her up.. POP! it looked like what would come from a festering infection.. that didn't look like egg, it looked like infected pus! And the SMELL!!! It sent me running! I came...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Is it possible that its just a weird quirk and not indicative of mites? I haven't actually seen/checked. Just thought all that scratching was ominous! I don't want her spreading anything to the chicks. The "beak sharpening" sounds familiar! She wipes either side of her beak on the pavement...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    eek. could she possibly have mites? i've noticed when she gets out for breaks, she's scratching around her face pretty excessively. She drew blood at the base of her beak! a little over a week until her chicks are due. What do I do?
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Yay! I got rid of the poopy straw! I picked her up off the nest for a break this morning, put on gloves (EWWW!!!) and got most the straw out and any bits of poop that were in there. I left the straw the eggs were sitting on. Put in lots of fluffy pine, piled it higher in the back corners so she...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I already have moved her nest. She created one of her own in an inaccessible-to-humans location. We don't have a rooster and I couldn't reach there to remove all the eggs and put hatching ones in instead. So, I had to catch her while she was out for a break. And by "catch" I mean, walk over to...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Eek! She ate one of her eggs! Why would she do that and is there anything I can do to lessen the chance of it repeating? Today is day 5. My dd caught her in the act. I immediately brought her out, and she proceeded to take a dust bath while I cleaned it up. I cleaned up some poop (ew) and...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    ...and was hand raised. She has NO example. No one taught her how to hatch chicks. Yet she knows she must sit on and guard those eggs! I wonder if she *actually* knows chicks will come out, or is just stuck in the "now" of "protect the eggs" which will naturally translate to "protect the chicks"...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    haha, as long as its not the broody hen equivalent of the big "opening the bator during lockdown" no no! See, anyone else's hen, I'd be scared to death of getting my hand near it when its broody and guarding its eggs/chicks. But for whatever reason, MY hens' beaks don't intimidate me in the...
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