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    Dead duck 😢 help?

    I can take her somewhere. Or I could do something to check too, if I know what that is. We have not done anything with her waiting to get some advice from you all. 😊 The flock “free ranges” in a fenced area of about an acre. No one goes in except my children and us. And no one has taken...
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    Dead duck 😢 help?

    Last night when my son put the ducks in one of our 18 month old girls was not acting normal. She would walk a step or two and then collapse, he said. I went out and she let me pick her up (not normal behavior) but by then she was walking fine. No injuries. Nothing hot on her. Nothing seemed to...
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    New to turkeys

    So I’m thinking more “lean-to” than coop would be good?
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    New to turkeys

    “Wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot pole.” Lol. Do you think they will suffer from our cold winters without a sheltered place?
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    New to turkeys

    I've read Storey and a LOT of the threads here, but I still have a few questions that I hope you might be able to help with. We are getting 8 Narragansett eggs in a week. They will go into the incubator and then brooded in the basement. (We have been raising ducks and geese for about 6 years. We...
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    Ducks, ducks, everywhere-Michigan’s thumb

    Thumb of Michigan
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    Ducks, ducks, everywhere-Michigan’s thumb

    Just outside Yale
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    Ducks, ducks, everywhere-Michigan’s thumb

    We have become a repository for other people’s ducks and we have too many now and need to rehome some. We have 10 ducks to rehome, aged from 1-4 years, that are mostly laying females with a couple males. They are all mixed breed ducks (mostly pekin mixed with something else). A few are broody if...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    Thank you all. We have them separated for the time being. Once the newest ones (we’ve gotten 2 in the last couple hours) are a little more able to fend for themselves we may do a little supervised together time because separating them is a pain in the neck. My Lily is not bothered at all by...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    There are 2 moms sitting on each nest. So “mom families” was the best I could come up with to describe them. Basically, the sister wives and their offspring versus the other set of sister wives and their offspring.
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    One more question do I need to keep the mom families separate for 3 weeks, too? Along with keeping them separated from the flock?
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    Thank you. That is what we will do. We’ve never let them hatch their own before so this is challenging!
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    Thank you and more questions Now, we have a different issue. Of the two that hatched this morning they were doing fine until two of the mamas attacked one of the newest ducklings. I brought the LO in and put him in the incubator. Looks a little better now. Went out to check water again (it is...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    It’s been two days. Even my daughter is willing to call this one. She did get some good news though. Two new babies this morning when she went to feed and water them. :)
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    I did get the humidity up finally. But I think it just wasn’t meant to be. It is still in there because I promised my daughter we would give it the full 48 hours to make sure when we started. I think it just wasn’t strong enough to break out on its own. I don’t think that is it. They’ve...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    Sorry. I forgot by the time I got to end of that last message I typed. Lol. No muscovies. Mostly mutts hatching at this point. We have a few purebreds but the babies should be mostly mutts. We have pekin, Rouen, KC, and WH that are almost all rescue ducks.
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    We will give her back if it hatches in the incubator. I can still see small movements through the clear side of the incubator. Probably sneak her into the nest at night. Also, we lost another one that looked just like this one the day before the first one showed up. Looked full term. My kids...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    This little guy is in hurriedly set up incubator that is at the right temp, but I’m having trouble getting humidity up, but I did put coconut oil on 1/2 the inner membrane and 1/2 the outer. I didn’t want to completely impede if there was an air exchange coming across that layer.
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    So it’s kind of a crazy story that we aren’t sure what day it’s on. Lily got “injured” By the ganders who thought she was a goose. So we quarantined her in the night pen and run. She decided to set up housekeeping. Then her best friend Penny thought she needed company and started sitting on the...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    Thank you. I was typing while you were answering.
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