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    Mule Duck Questions

    I'm looking to add another duck hen to my layer flock, and found someone who has mule ducks for sale. I've read that hens do ley eggs, but are they good layers? The oldest she has for sale are 2 months old. Can they be voice sexed like Mallard derived breeds? She has hens and drakes of both...
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    Silver and Gold Welsh Harlequins

    After a few years of not having any poultry (two cross country moves), I finally got some ducks again! :celebrateThe first three I got are Welsh Harlequins from a local feed store that sells sexed ducklings, a big plus for living in town and only allowed 5 ducks. I purposely picked out three...
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    Murder of Crows

    Hi all, I'm about at my wits end with crows! :barnie We have been having horrible trouble with crows eating our ducks' eggs. I found 5 broken and empty eggs today in our ducks area. The worst part is they are nesting in a row of firs in our neighbor's yard. Is there any other way than...
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    Duck Without Working Oil Gland

    Hi Y'all! Two of our duck hens hatched out some Anconas this summer. One of the Ancona hens does not have a properly working oil glad. I have rubbed her down with coconut oil a few times (someone told me that worked, but it didn't really do all that much), but with all the rain we have been...
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    Duck Eggs Under Momma

    So, I have ten duck eggs under a duck hen. 9 are on day 21, and 1 on day 20. I candled them tonight, and they look like they are more on day 24-26. Do duck eggs under a duck hatch in less time than in an incubator? This is my first time with broody ducks, so not sure. Thanks in advance!
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    Disease Testing???

    Hello, How would one go about testing their chicken flock for a disease that has similar characteristics to Marek's or Marek's itself? I did a little research and only found that the bird had to be dead to test for Marek's. Thanks!
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    Sebbie Gander

    We have a mixed flock of poultry. (23 chickens, 24 ducks, and 2 Sebbie girls) 2 of our ducks are vision impaired. We have around 1/2 an acre divided into two yards (ours and the neighbors) the chickens have one, and the ducks and geese have the other. the geese are housed by themselves. I...
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    Tufted Sebastopol?

    It looks like our five-week-old Sebastopol gander has a tuft. Are geese's tufts like ducks', or are they more like chickens'?
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    Sebastopol Gander

    We have had three different kinds of poultry and are looking into getting some geese. We are hoping to just get two girl Sebastopol goslings, but all of the breeders nearby don't sell just girls. We have had roosters, drakes, and toms, and we have had trouble with all of them being hard on the...
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    How do You Stop a Broody Turkey?

    We have a 7-month-old Midget White Turkey hen who has decided that she needs to go broody. We do you have room for more poultry, and we cannot let her raise some poults (as much as would would it, we don't have enough space). We have tried dunking her in cold water, but are there other ways...
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    Hoarse Duck Hen.

    Our ten month old Rouen hen is hoarse. When we brought her in today to check her foot (one of her toes is swollen), instead of making her cute little quacking sounds, she sounds more like a drake that is just starting to quack. She seems fine other than that. She is eating, playing and acting...
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    Rash on duck?

    Over the past week, we have found patches of missing feathers on our Pekin hen. The weird part is that not only are the feathers missing, but the pin feathers growing in are broken off and bloody, and the skin is red and inflamed. We have been applying Nu-Stock to it and that seems to help...
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    Rash on duck?

    Over the past week, we have found patches of missing feathers on our Pekin hen. The weird part is that not only are the feathers missing, but the pin feathers growing in are broken off and bloody, and the skin is red and inflamed. We have been applying Nu-Stock to it and that seems to help...
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    Turkey hen acting weirdly....starting to lay?

    We have a 6-7 month old Midget White hen who has been know to get over our 7 ft. fence into the neighbors' yards. Shortly after I let the birds out this morning, I found her over in a field next to our neighbor's yard wandering around. Since then she has been over there twice. (she normally...
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    Rescued Duck Has LOTS of Feather Mites

    We just rescued an abandoned Khaki Campbell hen from a lake down the road this morning, and she has really bad mites/bugs in her feathers. How do you get rid of mites on ducks?
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    Young tom mating duck hen

    We have three three-month-old midget white turkeys. Two of them are toms. Earlier this morning both of our toms were strutting around one of our Blue Swedish hen. Then the hen squatted down and one of the toms got on her! We shooed the tom off, and then we checked the duck. She was fine...
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    Bumblefeet will not go away!

    We have a Golden-laced Whyndotte who has had very large bumbles on both feet for a long time (a few months). We have tried a lot of different things: Antibiotics, essential oils, Epsom salts, surgery, Black Ointment(pine tar with herbs), Blu-kote, and Nu-stock (what we are currently using)...
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    Sick Chicken *Poop Pictures*

    When we let our chickens out this morning, our 12 week old polish was acting very lethargic. She was just sitting there huddled in a ball with her eyes closed. We have had other chickens with the same symptoms, so this is not totally new to us. We brought her inside and have been feeding her...
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    Clogged nostrils

    Yesterday we bought three Midget White two-week-old poults. I was watching them this morning, and one of them is having a hard time breathing. I picked her up and found that both of her nostrils are mostly clogged. These are our first turkeys, and we are rather clueless about what to do. Any...
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    Broody Pekin?

    Hi, we have a 9 month-old Crested Pekin hen, Baby, who is acting really strange. She was in the greenhouse with us and was acting normal, then she went over to the chicken's nest in the straw bale, and started making the sweetest cooyest sounds I have ever heard a duck make. She then proceeded...
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