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Best breed to mix with an Embden girl?
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Fox took my full size embden female yesterday! Help!
Right in front of me, at 10 am, a grey fox ran out of the woods and grabbed one of my two embden girls from our pond. I am shocked and heartbroken. We knew that a fox had moved in but I had no idea he was so bold. That explains our goat kid that went missing this summer and a few chickens and... -
Muscovy drake with GREEN prolapsed penis - help!
My huge drake has has about 5 inches of what I assume is prolapsed penis hanging out for 4 days. From what I've read I need to cut it off but it's not black, it's light greenish grey. Is that dead tissue? He's acting mellow but otherwise ok. If I cut it off, will he still be able to fertilize... -
Duck eggs dying during lockdown
I just had 8 out of 20 duck eggs die during lockdown. They were fine 3 days ago when I moved them from incubator to hatcher. Hatcher is an incubator set at 97ish with 90ish humidity. I did open it to spray them a few times, maybe too much? One starting coming out then died but the others seem...- melissap
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Help! Ducks have intestines falling out!
I had a beloved Pekin die yesterday, in the morning she was trailing blood and had her innards hanging out her vent, I've never seen anything like it. I tried to give her a warm bath and push it back in but she soon died. Now this morning I found a dead Khaki with about an inch of intestine... -
RI Red walking like a penguin with feathers down - help!
She's been walking around slowly and upright for a week with her feathers dragging. She's eating and drinking and I don't feel anything hard inside her, but she's a bit puffy maybe? I've heard maybe egg bound but no idea what to do about it. I heard warm water but how? She hates water and I'm...- melissap
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Heron ate our ducklings..
We had a mallard hatch out 4 babies yesterday and she took them to the pond right away. A heron landed later that day and she returned home alone. We can only assume the heron ate all 4 ducklings. We are heartbroken.. -
Snapping Turtle and Crows as Predators??
Has anyone else had a problem with snapping turtles in their pond ? We lost a duck to a snapper and can't seem to get rid of it. Also we seem to have crows landing in our pastures and eating our duck eggs. Anyone have any ideas?? -
Is the upright Runner stance a dominant or recessive trait?
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Do Adoptive Mama Ducks stay attached forever?
We had 2 muscovies sitting on empty nests so we stuck a few khaki eggs under them and each one hatched out three. When one mama went to take a bath somehow her 3 ducklings got attached to the other mama and now she is sitting with all 6 under her. The first mama came back looking for them and I... -
Muscovy Sitting on Eggs - Aggressive! Should I move her?
We have a muscovy sitting on some eggs (not her own, we stuck a few under her because she was sitting on an empty nest) in a nesting box. As the weeks go on, she's gotten aggressive and will come out of her box to peck at people, chickens, whoever is close by. Would I be successful in picking up... -
Lost....duck eggs....
We have khakis and runners who have taken to spending all of their time (except at night) down at a big puddle in the woods and now we can't find their eggs. They go in the pasture at night but slip out first thing in the am (through the fence) and head down to the woods. We have looked... -
Orpington won't stop going broody but she stinks at it!!
We have a 6 month old white Orp hen and she keeps sitting on a pile of hay for days on end, stealing duck eggs to sit on (we have no rooster so her own eggs aren;t fertile - do they know that? can they tell?) but she's looking really ragged. I think she's getting pecked and she's not earing much...- melissap
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Did we "fry" the incubated eggs?
We found an abandoned nest of runner eggs and stuck them in the incubator. I don't know if they were developing or not, but our incubator went crazy last night and I found it at 120 degrees! We had just installed a new fan (it's a hovabator) yesterday so no idea what happened but did it kill any...- melissap
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Muscovies gone broody but no drake and ..no eggs!
I can't get my 2 muscovies out of the best nesting boxes. They have been setting for the past week but we don't have a muscovy drake (or any drake that is mating with them) and when I reach under them there is NOTHING! What should I do? -
Help! Switching incubators messed us up? Ducks have deformed feet and are wobbly!
Hi there, Our first hatch went perfectly a few weeks ago and then we switched incubators and put the remaining khaki/runner and pekin/swedish eggs in a different incubator (with no fan). Day 28 came and went and then finally on Day 33 they hatched but with difficulty, some deformed feet (which... -
Possibly dumb duck mating question
I am new to this.... We are in the process of hatching out our first ducklings. If we keep most of them, how do we (or should we) keep the "siblings" from mating with each other later? We only have 3 drakes so the fertilized eggs which hatch into ducks will be related, right? Is this even... -
Green Eggs?
This is my first post here. Every day we get two dark green eggs and we are not sure who is laying them. We have 7 khakis, 3 runners (2 grey/blue, 1 white), 1 cayuga, 1 magpie, 2 pekins, 1 crested, 5 swedish (3 blue, 2 grey), and 4 muscovy. We are thinking it's the 2 grey/blue runners but I...