Hi everyone. I'm so happy to announce that my Welsummer chicken just hatched 3 of my Welsh Harlequin duck eggs. The ducks are not very good sitters, but the chickens are. So we slipped some fertilized eggs under one of our chickens when she went broody, and now we have 3 baby ducklings...
Hi everyone. We have two different flocks in our yard. 7 Welsh Harlequin Ducks and 4 Welsummer Chickens. They are in their separate areas. Chickens in a covered pen so they can't fly away, and the ducks in an uncovered pen. We are getting a blizzard here today, and bad weather has brought...
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We have 7 Welsh Harlequin ducks. 2 males and 5 females. They are great ducks, but terrible egg sitters. I think they get distracted too easily. Regardless...we have 4 Welsummer hens and when they started to lay eggs last fall one of them became broody right away. I am...
Hi everyone. I have 8 Welsh Harlequin ducks which I raised from 3 days old. 2 males and 6 females. They are now 7 months old. They have their own outside protected run area and used to go in their house every night when it got dark. For the past 5 nights, they will not go in their house...