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Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong
Here's my entries!- seaneduck
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Black Duck Skin
Maybe Black East Indies? They seem to be darker than Cayungas. Are you wanting skin like those chickens (I saw on Iron Chef one time) where the meat was black, the comb was black, everything was black. That would be interesting. Hope you can find some. -
Magpie & Splash Call Ducks & Water Pan ?
The tubs are small enough that I can just dump them by hand. I usually dump them every other day, after they get all muddy/poopy. -
Half-baked eggs
I had a call duck setting on a nest of eggs, for probably about 10-14 days. I let them out each day to free range in my yard while I garden/mow and a hawk came in aiming for the pigeons next door and spooked the call duck and she took off flying. And I searched all day and couldn't find her. I... -
Angelwing fix
Well here goes nothing. Only had superhero socks handy! LOL -
Call duck runt
i had a runt this hatch, too. Not really micro-sized, but much smaller in comparison to her hatchmates. She has been picked on mercilessly by my dominant male duck (pulled all her feathers out of her head trying to breed with her) so i finally had to move her into her own private duck condo :)... -
Angelwing fix
I have a duckling that appears to have angelwing. We are currently having 90+ degree weather and I want to wrap her wings up, but wonder about her getting too hot. I was thinking of wrapping her in a tube sock (like a sleeve) and then taping it around her for tightness. I have a couple of... -
2015 Hatch
I have only had ducks for about 5 years, and the first year I had a hatch I didn't do anything and the mother took care of it all.The only thing I had to do was rig a chickenwire "ladder" into their swimming pool so they could climb out since they were too little to use their wings to push... -
2015 Hatch
Who would have thought a Home Depot bucket would work for a nest! She hatched 4 ducklings this year. I had another mother who hatched three, but them kicked them out of the nest and wouldn't let them back under her to keep warm, so I moved those three into the house for a week waiting for this... -
Frazzled looking duck
Thanks everyone. I'll take a look at his oil gland and see if I can see a problem. I have noticed that he doesn't readily get in the water like the other ducks, so maybe that's part of it as well. Kinda hard to clean feathers that never get wet! ;) -
Frazzled looking duck
I have call ducks and one of the males I have (last year's hatch) has always looked frazzled. I don't know why. His feathers are always ragged. I see him preening like the other ducks, but he just looks bad all the time. Ideas as to why this would happen? Here you can see the ragged male in... -
Should have hatched
I have a call duck who has been setting on a nest of eggs for "long enough". According to my calculations, she's been on them at least 28 days. I took a look at some of the eggs under her while she was off getting a drink, and a few of the eggs have a definite air pocket, and the eggs have... -
Flying the nest
Mine hatched on May 31 and are just barely getting off the ground (when startled), so that makes them a little over 8 weeks. -
Mother duck attacking newly hatched ducklings
I had a duck do that this year. The last two years she has raised 8-9 babies just fine, but this year she had one hatch and she drug it out of the next to the edge of the pen and left it to die (which it did). Then two more babies hatched and she kept them under her dry, warm and safe. The... -
Help!!!! Possible angel wing?
When my ducklings are about that age I always wonder if they have angel wing because of the weird way the growing feathers stick out. So far (2 hatches of 7 and 8 ducklings respectively) everything has turned out okay with normal wings. I've heard others say that while the feathers are growing... -
Watering Ducks with Chicken Nipples??
I have a bucket with chicken nipples in my duck pen (as well as a larger swimming pond) and even the week old ducklings use it (with the aid of a brick to climb up to reach it--as it is set at adult height!) -
Magpie & Splash Call Ducks & Water Pan ?
Not the best picture, but I got a mortar tub at Home Depot. It's about 5 inches deep and about 3x2. It isn't too tall for my calls to jump in from the sides, but a brick might help. I use a little ramp which they readily use, but sometimes it's just quicker to jump in from the side. -
Duck behavior I'm not familliar with?
When ever I turn the garden hose on and spray my ducks, they will all stop what they are doing, and turn into the spray and look just like your picture--chest out facing the spray. They must feel the splash from the water in the tub. -
Call Duck "Man" parts
Well, I took the plunge. We don't have any vets around here, and couldn't afford them if they were. I got my son to help me hold the duck while I washed off the phallus as best I could and then cut off just above the black-dead end. Little guy didn't even quack, but then it started to bleed and... -
Call owners, do you have open swimming water for them in winter?
I live in Utah, and we have cold winters. I drain their 80 gallon pool in the winter and just have a plug-in-the-wall dog dish that I keep for them that doesn't freeze. I cover most of it up, just leaving enough room for them to dip their heads in, but not swim around. It takes cleaning out...