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  1. CarterCrazy

    Restoring vegetation coverage

    The grass got good and ruined last year when we decided to let our ducks hatch their eggs and we were overrun with ducks for a few months while we found homes for them. Now we have just 2 drakes and 7 hens, so no more worries about overpopulation LOL They do have access to the front and side...
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    Peking hatched some of her eggs, left me to tend to the rest

    My Indian Runner and Peking both laid eggs around the same time. Indian Runner was a good girl and sat on her nest the whole time, resulting in 9 healthy, happy babies. Peking, of course, sat for a little bit, but was more interested in running around the yard than tending to her nest. I...
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    Please help! Duckling hatched with unabsorbed yolk, other oddities!

    It was suggested I re-post over here on the Duck specific board. I'm running late for a lesson and have to go, so I'm just going to drop a link here. I'll be back in about 45 minutes. Please, please take a look and help me out. I don't want this little guy to die because of some knowledge I...
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    Peking duckling hatched with bloody yolk outside his body

    Can you please give me some advice? This is our second hatch. First one we had 9/10 success, and after seeing one die in the egg with his little bill stuck out of the hole, I swore if I saw distress in time with the next round, I'd help if I could. Today, Mama hatched 4 eggs under our shed and...
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    Peking has bite wound- how to treat?

    One of my @#$%^ shih tzus got a hold of one of my ducks. Last time this happened, I didn't notice until the wound was infected, and I ended up losing a Muscovy. :( I had thought it might have been my dog that did it, but they don't have a prey drive for anything else in the yard, and I'd never...
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    So what's growing in my yard? LOL

    I've been trying out different treats for the ducks lately. Seems they LOVE me for bringing out chopped up watermelon, canteloupe, tomatoes, and cukes. I bought them some DuMOR Scratch for Adult Birds. They don't really seem to give a hoot about it, but I have noticed it IS sprouting into...
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    Didn't want to take over the Northern Winters thread- so here's questions for Southeast Winters :)

    I'm very new to keeping ducks, and have learned tons from this forum, so thank you! We've had our babies (3 Pekin- one female, two males) since they were born on Memorial Day weekend, and this weekend we picked up two Indian Runners and a Muscovy, all female, all full grown but don't appear to...
  8. CarterCrazy

    Please help!

    On Memorial Day weekend, I got three Pekin ducklings- just hatched that day and the day before. They were not sexed, and we were keeping our fingers crossed that we'd end up with at most, one male, as I've read about the voracious sexual appetite these guys can have. Well, it turns out we...
  9. CarterCrazy

    Difference between duck & chicken coop?

    I'm looking for plans to build a duck coop, but so far, all I can find are zillions of resources for chicken coops. If I decided to use a plan for a chicken coop, what modifications might I need to keep in mind?
  10. CarterCrazy

    Learned something the hard way.....ugh!

    So, about 5 days after bringing home my baby Pekins, I got *really* sick. Thought I had a stomach virus or food poisoning or something along those lines. Then just for the heck of it, I googled 'Can I get sick by handling ducks?' and only got about a billion pages about ducks and salmonella...
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