OK y'all, it's hatch week at my house! Today is day 23 & I'm hatching mallards, so I'm working hard to be prepared for hatching. I incubated in a LG forced air incubator with turners & I'm going to move them to a LG still air for hatching, which I am running now & trying to fine-tune temp &...
So this is my first experience letting mom do what nature intended. I've seen some behavior that I can't quite figure out on my own. First of all, I'm finding newly hatched ducklings all over the floor of the coop! And mom is making no attempt to get them back to the nest! If i try to put them...
Since I'm still trying to get the hang of raising ducks, I'm asking my knowledgeable friends at BYC for "expert" opinions. Below is a picture of two of my 7 week-old mallards. Judging by voice and size, I think that I have 2 boys & 7 girls of my group of 9. However, I noticed today the...
OK, so I'll admit I've been lurking for quite a while here, so I figured it wasn't very polite of me to continue to do so. When I google anything about ducks, I usually end up here anyway!
So as you can guess, I'm mainly a duck enthusiast. I was at a feed store about 18 months ago looking for...