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Keeping Track of Eggs
I struggled for years to keep track of which eggs were the oldest and use them first, and finally having hit on a simple solution, I wanted to share it. I put a piece of Scotch tape on the end of an egg carton to create a "plastic-y" area, then write the date on it with a wet erase marker...- JenniferK
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Duck Needed -- Sacramento Area
After about two years without incident, a raccoon found a weak spot in what I thought was a secure pen and slaughtered four out of our five ducks. The survivor, a male black East Indies, has severe gashes on his head and bill and was trembling when I found him, but he seemed pretty strong... -
Is this normal for Black East Indies?
I think this female is about a year and a half or two years old. She came with a male whose coloring has remained dark, but over the last few months she has ended up with a lot of white feathers. Is this normal for the breed? -
Broken Leg?
I have a little BEI that I thought was sick when I noticed her spending a lot of time by herself lying on the grass while the other ducks were foraging. The next day I noticed that she was limping badly, and I assume that's what the problem is since she's eating normally and looks otherwise... -
Duck Wanted, N CA
I have a friend whose parents are looking for an adult duck -- following is her email. If you know of one, please let me know. *** My parents gave one of their male ducks away. It was just too mean. The remaining duck is sooooo VERY sad-- we are afraid it might die of heartbreak. They are...- JenniferK
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Angel Wing Continued?
Some helpful people here identified my little duck's problem as angel wing, so I taped them until the tape fell off after about 2 days and the wings looked better. Then they started to slump again, so I re-taped for about 3 days and then they looked great. Now some of the feathers look really... -
Friend needs a male duck
My friend says her parents would like a tame male duck, since apparently they were disappointed to have raised some and none turned out to be male. They live in Atwater, CA. If you know of one that needs a home in that area, will you please let me know? -
Is this normal wing development?
This is our little BEI at about 5-1/2 weeks. Her wings seem to be always turned out at the ends. When she stretches and flaps they look pretty normal, but the cock-eyedness seems weird to me. I don't remember our bigger ducks looking so strange. Also, when we bring her outside her father... -
I think I blew it!
We had a broody hen again who sat for about a week and a half, and I thought instead of letting one hatch eggs this time, I would do the chick trick -- slip a few under her at night so she could be Instant Mom. Well when I cleaned up the hen house and got a separate area set up for her, it...- JenniferK
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Inside or Out for the Day?
We have a 4 week old BEI duckling that was the only survivor and we decided to raise her alone. She's been in the house with tons of attention, and often goes places with us, but today we're going to be gone all day to somewhere she can't join us. Unfortunately the weather is pretty yucky --... -
Easter Duckling (pictures)
OK, it's a little late, but here's our baby (Black East Indies) that hatched about a week before Easter. -
What Makes a Good Mother Duck?
I need to know if we should take the baby away. Our little Black East Indies seemed like she was only somewhat committed to hatching eggs (she seemed to take a lot of long breaks), but she managed to hatch two ducklings. One had been out toddling around (safe in the nighttime house) and I had... -
Ducklings Hatching -- Help!
Our Black East Indies has been sitting on her eggs, and last night I heard peeping. She's nesting under a little dome inside the ducks' nighttime house, and a little while the kids yelled at me that one of the ducklings was out. Sure enough, it was out running (stumbling) around the duck... -
Broody Duck Not So Broody
My little BEI hen finally decided she was going to sit on her eggs, but she only seems to last about half a day -- at least that's how it's been for the last few days. Is there any hope of eggs hatching with such a lack of commitment on her part? It's not like it's warm out. We've been having... -
What do I do with these eggs?
So my little Black East Indies female has laid about 9 eggs in her nest over the last couple of weeks, and I don't know if I should still be waiting to see if she'll sit on them, or if I need to get them out of there. If she's not going to be broody we'd like to try incubating them, but I don't... -
How long do you wait to see if your duck will be broody?
We just adopted a pair of Black East Indies, and the female over the last two and a half weeks has laid about five eggs all in different places. The latest was today under the cat litter box lid that I'd put in the duck yard in case she wanted it for nesting, and then I panicked today and moved... -
Rooster Too Rough?
I've read a lot of the posts on rooster behavior, and I get that chicken mating is not a pleasant thing, but I'm just wondering if our rooster is too rough. We are now on our third hen that is afraid to leave the hen house -- it's almost as if he's taking turns. We had two roosters, about 9...- JenniferK
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Why are my ducks losing feathers?
My three ducks, Welsh Harlequin, Khaki Campbell, and Blue Swedish, all seem to be losing piles of feathers every day for about the past week, which seems odd since they are only about 8 weeks old and just finished getting their feathers, and they are out all day in 40 and 50 degree weather and... -
Trying to set up a new duck home and need predator-proofing help
We are trying to give our not-so-little-anymore ducks as big a home as possible, without letting them free range in our yard all the time (the duck poop on the door mat gets old quickly). We have an area around some trees where we want to put a low fence and then looked into hot-wiring it to... -
What to Feed Young Ducks
I have three ducks that are about six weeks old and I've been feeding them Mazuri waterfowl starter. I still bring them in at night because it's been in the 30s, but they're out most of the day now and I've noticed that when they first come in after being out foraging, their poop is much darker...