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    Dewlap African- gender help?

    I have 3 Africans (not the "supers") from Metzers. We bought a pair over a year ago. Male and female. I became very familiar with their differences. My male has an extra long neck and his honk is a looooong shriek and very high pitched. Their lone hatchling from this year sound just like his...
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    Curved spine?

    I have a hatchery WH girl that I noticed a couple months ago has a 'crooked' tail. She walks funny too. No one else has this issue and I have 25+ ducks. She pretty much keeps up with the others but it certainly takes her more effort off the water. And in the past couple months it's gone...
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    Adoption

    Have any of you had ANY luck with a goose/gander adopting goslings? I would love to try if I could. :D
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    French Black Copper Marans rooster

    A year old. Hand raised. Daily handled by my kids. Actually there is nothing wrong with him. He was getting sassy with me for a while there - showing me treats like I was his hen and dropping a wing towards me. I broke him of that and he is back to his usual chill self. My kids flat out adore...
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    Ducks in love with my Gander

    I have several Appleyards and 3 of the females are seriously in love with my Gander. Always head bopping and map map mapping at him. He mostly ignores them but every now and then he will mate one of them. They are big ducks and seem none the worse for wear and keep coming back for more. Every...
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    My Silver Appleyards (huge share)

    I am in love with my SA from Celtic Oaks. They are still young, just about 4 months old or so. One of the pretty females This is my favorite drake, Henry. He's such a handsome guy! See him looking at me? LOL My other drake who is still getting big boy feathers. He's a...
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    My water birds :P (pics)

    I love all my birds. Ducks, geese and chickens. Lately I have mostly been photographing my chickens so I figured the ducks deserved a turn. :D I thought I would share! We have been rolling in eggs. Aren't they just so....peaceful?
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    A picture of my goose's 3rd egg

    She is laying them ever other day now. Production quality Brown African- They weigh about 115-120 grams Small for goose eggs. But we caught her laying it today. It was so cute watching her tuck leaves around herself. By the time i got my camera I only got the result- she was gone. We brushed...
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    Got a goose egg today

    At least I assume it is. I have ducks and chickens too. But this egg was left by the pond, is rather large, very rough on the outside, covered in a very thick bloom, lots of blood on the outside and contained only one very huge yolk. It weighed 114 grams. My biggest duck egg was a double yolker...
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    Sharing my Appleyards :)

    They got to free range today and apparently made their way down to the pond. The older ducks wanted nothing to do with them. The feeling was mutual. lol They are so pretty. Extremely skittish though despite of the daily hands on. Time to intro treats! First day out and about and on the big...
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    Slightly tinted egg with gray speckles?

    Below are my listed breeds. I recognize 2 of the eggs as my Pekins eggs- large kinda round and white. Almost daily I get a slightly gray/green egg with gray green speckles. You really notice it a lot when it's next to the Pekins eggs but it is not super vivid. Do any of the ducks I have lay...
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    Duck safe coloring for vent?

    haha Weird right? I have 11 ducks. They are all 26 and 29 weeks old. I only get 5 eggs a day. Never 6. Today I kept them locked up nearly all day to see if any were a layin' elsewhere in the yard. No other eggs showed up in the coop. I would like to identify which duck is laying. So at night I...
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    Duck Egg Size

    So I have Runners, 300s, Pekins, Buffs and Harlequins. I have 11 females. I am only getting 4-5 eggs a day. So I do not think they are all laying. I have never had a 6 egg day. Ever. I have been getting this many eggs for over a month now. The average egg size is about 52-68 grams. (ranging...
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    Egg size and amount

    My ducks (well half of them anyway) began laying in September. I have 11 females ages are 23 and 26 weeks. 26 weekers are the Pekins and a black runner. The rest are all 23 week olds. We are getting 4-5 eggs a day. Every now and then we have a 3 egg day. But very consistently 4 or 5 for the...
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    My WH leg clicks

    My Maggie May seems just fine but when she walks you can hear a click. Left leg. She doesn't hobble or limp. She spends most of her time on the pond. I have 13 other ducks and only Maggie has a leg that clicks. Does anyone know what that could be? Should I do anything? I assumed the best...
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    2 weeks of pellet bedding so far

    I LOVE it! Thanks to a thread I read 3 weeks ago here in the duck forum- I went out and got some! We cleaned the coop. I laid tarps down (don't like muck on the bare floor). Then a nice fat layer of Sweet PDZ. Then for my approx 10x10 coop we used 6 bags of horse wood pellet bedding. I set up...
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    Our first egg!!

    Finally got an egg! Not sure from who though. It was a small egg. It's dirty BUT it still looks tinted to me? After a rinse and gentle rub - below is what the egf looked like. Looked like a dirty Cayuga actually? We have a black duck. She is not beetle green like Cayugas are. She has some but...
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    When did your Pekins start laying?

    I have 2 Pekins and 1 black runner (all hatchery stock) that are 21 weeks old. No eggs yet? When did you start getting eggs from your Pekins? I am walking ALL around the pond too, to see if they are stashing them somewhere. No white floaters in the pond either. :|
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    Am I lucky or what?

    I got ducks first. Then I added Chickens. Then geese. Last week I opened the coop for the first time to the chickens. Free rangers. ;) The ducks will come up out of the pond to say hi to us. Ignoring the chickens. COMPLETELY. It's like they do not exist. I was terrified the drakes would rape...
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    Pilgrim Geese breeder recommendation?

    I would love to begin researching a few breeders of Pilgrim geese to check out. I would rather start out with a pair or trio of good quality if possible. I do not have an incubator so getting eggs would be chancy since I would have to have a broody duck or chicken at that time. I do have some...
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