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    Serious moulting or something else?

    Hi All! One of our girls appears to be experiencing a severe moult, but I want to make sure that it's not something more serious. The reason I'm asking is that she seems to be having trouble walking this morning, side-stepping a little but making it to where she's headed. Is the walking issue...
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    Are Welsh Harlequins aggressive?

    This is a follow up to a previous post. Are Welsh Harlequins an aggressive breed? We have a breeding pair and when we introduced 2 two month olds the drake immediately became overly aggressive, to the point where we took him out and put him in with our Blue Swedish girls who recently lost their...
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    Welsh Harlequin drake beating up on new girls

    Hi We have a 10 month old breeding pair of Welsh Harlequins and just introduced a pair of girls that are 2 1/2 months old, incubated from the 10 month old's eggs. We moved the younger ones into the duck house 2 weeks ago and they were separated from the older pair by a hardware cloth fence. We...
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    Whistle and Humm

    I'm very curious about a behavior that my Swedish Drake is exhibiting. I call it "whistle and hum" and it occurs when the drake is in the pond with two or three of his ladies. He starts by rising up in the water while giving a short whistle, then gives a low hum while dropping back down into the...
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    Moving a clutch

    Our Blue Swedish ducks have started a clutch, unfortunately it is outside of the perimeter fencing and absolutely unsafe once they start sitting. Can we move the clutch to a safer spot inside the fencing? We have a nice laying box attached to their house that they have been laying in regularly...
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