I am experienced in keeping ducks and ducklings however in this situation I do not have a clue. I have woke up to find this poor duckling who is currently on his own with this horrible injuries on his head and if its still there over his eye. It does however look like his eye is gone. I presume...
i have 2 light sussex chickens and one indian runner duck that were all laying fine however they have not layed a single egg for at least four months?????? there is also a muscovy, three cayuga(female are not old enough yet.) (and a maran(not old enough)
however they all do have a BIG SPACE any...
hi my muscovy recently laid a batch of non fertile eggs which i swapped for dummy she was happily sitting for bout 2 weeks however due to floods i had to move her. i took her eegs aswell however she stopped sitting.
Now ive manganaged to revive her nest and my runner ducks are laying so i want...
my muscovie has made a nest and sitting on her infertile eggs for a bout 4 days now my questions is if i replace eggs with fertile one later will she stop sitting after 35 days or will she tell the eggs are still alive.
does imprinting always work... can you get independent ducks ?? just wandering as i hatched out a single cayuga and have been with him constantly just me. he cuddles up to me when im holding him however sometimes when i go towards him he peeps frantickly and runs away also he tends not to follow...
Yesterday my cayuga duck hatched however it was shrink wrapped and i had to help it. Its full of life eating drinking and a bundle of joy however it still cant stand or walk it sort of shuffles using its legs like padles of a boat. also it vibrates its feet so fast that you can hear it tapping...
My cayuga duck made the external pip almost 48 hrs ago. however instead of breaking out around the egg (the zip ) is just making more (external pips) theres three at the moment all joint is this right
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i have a rare shetland drake and its fine with ducks however it started bothering my chicken and one time grabbed it by the neck ive now sorted this by leaving the top hatch open of the big enclosure so the chicken can rome free in the garden (we are aslo getting more chickens.) but the other...
i bought three cayuga eggs a week ago that were already in incubation as the guy was 20 mins away. they are set to hatch this sunday or monday. its now friday and i can see the air sac however no internal pip does this mean there not going to hatch or could they just be late. also one of the...