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    New Magpie Ducklings! Awwwwwwww... *NEW PICS ADDED!*

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    Black, Tarry Poo???

    Yes once a day most birds pass the icky poo...no worries if it goes on it may be something they are getting into...keep em out of mud and stagnant water. when I say mud...not the normal messes they make...places they shouldn't be like runoff areas or areas getting water and sunshine...it can be...
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    Crested Duck and Ducklings Thread

    At this age...it will be mostly voice to go on...if you are hearing a "real"quack...a girl...a coughy kinda rasp waa waa ...it's a boy...tail feather is the last way to tell 10-12weeks. Super cute!
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    I am new to this!! Please help!!

    If your duck is growing bigger then the pekin and they are the same age....then it's a rouen for sure...Rouens grow faster and pekins grow faster than mallards... You will hear their voices about 10-12 weeks. girls are loud and quack...especially pekin girls!...all boys sound like a raspy...
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    Help! My Poor Duck's Foot is Injured!

    Yep,It's bumble foot and you should get some attention to it right away. Will be a lot of work but if you follow Amiga's advice you'll get through it. Keep on it...soak clean,wrap,change soak clean. The big bumbles do require surgery..which sounds insane to most but is not that bad and your duck...
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    Crested Duck and Ducklings Thread

    Sure looks like it...! How sweet...I can't wait for my magpies to start laying so I get my babies going this spring! Exciting!
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    Magpie Ducks

    Awww! congrats Super sweet...I can't wait to get the season going again this year! Markings on your wee one are nice... Markings you see as a duckling will be markings in the adult duck! Something that I appreciate when I am selling babies in the spring. How wonderful too see so many new babies...
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    Chickens???

    Good evening,I'll have hatching eggs soon...nothing pure but your welcome to them..$10/dz My laying flock is mostly pure breeds of several breeda with a handful of mixed hens from last summers hatches. Got rid of all the matching beautiful roos though (so hard)...Now I have 1 partridge...
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    Magpie Ducks

    I'LL LOOK FOR SOME OF MY BLUES AND POST THEM HERE SOON. aS FOR THE MANDARINES....i'LL LOOK FOR A THREAD ON THEM OR START ONE UP IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.lOVE SHARING PICTURES. THOSE THIRTY ONE BABIES WILL KEEP YA BUSY.Watching them move across a lucious leafy green field is even more wonderful...They...
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    Magpie Ducks

    mAGPIES Do have set patterns for show...but they do hatch out un-patterned markings...I usually hatch about 50% with proper markings...a handful of each batch fit for show! It does greatly depend on the parents you're breeding from...They are a real trick to breed for markings.The benefit is...
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    Comment by 'taras.farm' in media ''

    Thank you....They are great quackers....That are THRILLED the snow is gone gone gone...the mud is here (they love that not I!) and grass is trying to grow---The sun is feeling great!
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    Magpie Ducks

    Yes Chris,As soon as i heard i contacted wanita! What?...The blue ones are real nice and for some reason my blue males are much more calm than the blacks...The black males are pretty fighty around mating season...I'm separating my groups next week for this 2013 spring batch...Finding out...
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    who has magpie ducks ?

    I'll be back to edit and add some pics of my flock...I'm a Magpie lover too!
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    Magpies????

    yes I'd say inky is a Magpie!....Occasionally an almost completely white one is hatched.---even from the best marked parents...not that uncommon...Magpies are one of the toughest breeds to get the proper markings on...Show quality is very specific,,,but every magpie is special...and Magpies will...
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    Magpie Ducks

    Beside is my beautiful white mandarin drake. It was a sad day when an ermine got him...evil critter. Never lost another duck since...just one of those moments in life I guess...still have his partner, a daughter and another pair or normal coloured ones. Anyways,back to Magpies...don't know what...
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    Magpie Ducks

    ME! ME! ME!...lol I'm guessing you are in the states though...I'm in Ontario Canada...been breeding and raising awesome magpie ducks for 5 years now....6 of my breeders are from Holderreads last year...a couple from 2 years prior and other blood from a line I've been working on for a couple...
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hi all...been a while since I've visitted! This is quite a thread wow! Wanted to add that I have pure rouen hatching eggs and saxony duck eggs that can be collected and shipped any time. 60 from the rouen in under 10days $22/dz and 18-24 from the saxony in under 10 days..$25/dz. Also some...
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    Need help - eye swollen shut and blister on beak

    Nobody helped you with this?! Gahhh....I'm searching too....2 little chicks I recently bought have come down with swollen shut eyes but no beak blister...so I keep looking....How is your lil one...did it worsen and starve out? or recover?
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    Rouen Duck Hatching Egg

    Lots of Pure Rouen Eggs from my breeding flock in Ontario. Have had much successful hatches from members buying across Canada. About 50 eggs per week. Fertility is high around 90% right now. Hatch rate is between 80-85% even on some peoples shipped eggs! Ontario ships by Canpar...rest of Canada...
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    Magpie Ducks

    I have magpies...love em so much...working on them too would love more people to own em... Especially if your on the eastern seabord...new england states as i'm in canada but go to mew york often. I'd be glad to help answer anything you wanna know about them! Finding this thread made me...
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