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    Dead duck 😢 help?

    Last night when my son put the ducks in one of our 18 month old girls was not acting normal. She would walk a step or two and then collapse, he said. I went out and she let me pick her up (not normal behavior) but by then she was walking fine. No injuries. Nothing hot on her. Nothing seemed to...
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    New to turkeys

    I've read Storey and a LOT of the threads here, but I still have a few questions that I hope you might be able to help with. We are getting 8 Narragansett eggs in a week. They will go into the incubator and then brooded in the basement. (We have been raising ducks and geese for about 6 years. We...
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    Ducks, ducks, everywhere-Michigan’s thumb

    We have become a repository for other people’s ducks and we have too many now and need to rehome some. We have 10 ducks to rehome, aged from 1-4 years, that are mostly laying females with a couple males. They are all mixed breed ducks (mostly pekin mixed with something else). A few are broody if...
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    Hatching duckling troubles

    We have 2 new ducklings hatched by some broody ducks. This morning my daughter found this kicked out of the nest into the middle of the shed. She picked it up and brought it into me because she was freaked out by how it looked. (She’s 8 ) The duckling is moving a little. But it is weird because...
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    Allowing ducklings to be with flock

    We had some sister wives go broody on us and we ended up with a couple mutt ducklings that have four moms. (Lol). They are two days old and we have been keeping them sequestered from the rest of the flocks (drakes, hens and geese). Do we need to do this? Will the moms protect them? Every other...
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    Egg Problems

    Flock of 15. 2 are almost 4 years old, 1 is 3 years old, 3 are almost 2 years old, 3 are 1 year old, the remainder are 7 months old. We have not changed our food, which is an organic layer blend made by a local farm. Everyone is acting totally normal, with the exception of the egg thing. About...
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    Do ducks pick on an injured one like chickens will?

    We have a duck that was injured earlier today, and dead later and had a lot of feathers pulled out. I've never seen our flock go after an injured one before, but I know chickens do.
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    "Forcing" a broody duck?

    We have a duck that goes broody every year. She escapes the fence and lays all over. She disappears on our 10 acres and we spend DAYS looking for her, until she gets scared and abandons the eggs overnight and comes home only to leave again the next day. In other words, she WANTS to hatch some...
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    Help, please. Losing ducks :-(

    We have (had ) 11 ducks (mix of WH, Rouen, KC, pekin & mutts) and 5 geese (mutts). A duck was attacked and died on Wednesday night. DH didn't get the door closed well on their run and shed, which is a raised floor Rubbermaid shed attached to 5 cattle panels in an arch that is covered with 1/2"...
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    Can I use an electric fence with ducks?

    I have tried everything to keep our ducks inside their 1 acre fenced area. We have replaced the fence twice with higher (it's now 4 feet chicken wire), clipped one wing, clipped two wings, told them they were bad, bad ducks and they still get out. They have food and water and a pond, but they...
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    Sorting layers and non layers

    This may sound like a silly question but our flock is of mixed age and I am not exactly sure how to tell who is laying and who is not anymore. What are your experiences with older laying ducks? Specifically our welsh harlequins seem to have quit over the summer (4 hens, maybe 1 or 2 eggs/week...
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    Older meat ducks

    We have an egg allergy in the household so have been keeping ducks for the eggs. As some of ours are more than 2.5 now, we find some aren't laying at all. We won't continue to feed them, but am wondering about whether the meat will be any good at all. We've only ever processed/eaten our 4-6...
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    Breed? Sex?

    These dudes and dudettes are 11 weeks old here. They are rescues from an unexpected hatch from a friend of a friend. I haven't seen the dad, but was told that he was a Pekin. They gave me the mom and she is in the pic. She looks like a KC to me. I also can't tell their sex. There are...
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    Say it ain't so! Are they all male?

    Earlier this year we added 4 Rouens from TSC to our flock. Please tell me that I am wrong. Are they all male? Excuse the cruddy photography. Trying to take pics with phone in very bright sun, means only one pic was actually of ducks. LOL. And, then only three of them. I can see shiny green...
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    Gosling color & male/female ratio

    We recently hatched 5 goslings Toulouse/buff cross. 4 are some version of gray, one is bright yellow. Will she be white? Is that even possible with buff Toulouse cross? Also, we have only had male/female ducks with female geese in the past. We don't know the sex of these but are wondering if...
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    Ducklings swim in the big pond?

    I see lots of posts on when you can let the lings swim for the first time. Mine have been doing that for a while. Right now I have my 6.5 week olds separated from the rest of the flock while they get to know each other through the fence. I'm going to leave them for another week or two (until the...
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    Too long between internal and external pip?

    Internal pip was last night 11pm (mixed breed goose). I can see them working at an external pip now, but they still aren't through 8pm. Should I try to poke an air hole? Everything I've read says should be 4-12 hours from internal to external. Worried goose mama!
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    Foiling the escape artist - help!

    We have a Rouen duck who has tried several times to have a nest. Last ones she sat on for 40 days before we moved her and them (we just fenced her all in). She is 2 years old. The last couple of weeks, she is escaping the fence - every. single. day. We re-fenced the duck area with taller fence...
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    Incubating Goose Eggs, questionable eggs

    Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a little help on whether this looks normal or not. (Goose eggs are so thick! and photography is not that great as I try to hold egg, candler and phone to take pic :-P ) In the first pic, you can see that half the egg is dark, half light with a definite line in...
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    Guess on the age of this Rouen?

    Can I get a little help on the age of the Rouens? I can feel the feathers (for about a week) through the fluff.
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