I have a female mallard who is sitting on 17 eggs right now. Most are fertile however not all hers. The khaki female she is rooming with is laying on the same nest. For the last week I had to throw away 3 fertile eggs that have rotten and turned to water. Is this normal for a first time mother...
I am fairly new to owning ducks and chickens. Chickens not by choice but when Henrietta found us we fell in love with her. Henrietta is a banty chicken who showed up with us out of nowhere. When she first came to us you could not get near her she would run. Now she lets you hold her and pet her...
I have 2 daughters who want to very badly join 4h with poultry division. However my county in Pennsylvania does not have poultry department. I am trying to find a close one to my county which is Snyder County in Central Pennsylvania. We have alot of different kinds of duck and a few chicken breeds.
This is for duck eggs. I have a chicken hatching some duck eggs. The one egg externally starting pipping yesterday before I got home from work and has made very little progress. He is still alive and peeping and tapping but nothing has changed at all overnight. This is my very first time at...
Hello everyone. I started raising ducks earlier this year and was surprised one morning to find a banty chicken sitting at duck door one morning. I have no idea where she came from. Well decided I should get a couple of more chickens to keep her company. So now I have been enjoying those...