Bought both of these chicks on 4/16 and all the TSC could tell me was that they were bantams. There is a noticeable size difference between the two now. The black and gold has grey legs with a rose comb and almost gold laced wing feathers coming in. The other is all black with white wing tips...
Got this little chick on 4/16 from the TSC and this little one has been an up hill battle from day one. The second day we had her/him it was lethargic so I gave it some electrolytes and water every hour. Then I noticed it wasn't looking right and the poo was building up on its bottom. Every time...
I don't know if most of you remember that I got two muscovies back in July. One was a chocolate and the other was white, which many said would come out like a pied. Then the neighbors dog got the chocolate scovie when they were just 2- 3 weeks old. So I went back to the same lady and got two...
My barred scovy who is 4 weeks old now has sores starting on the backs of his knees. I think it is from laying down all of the time. What can I do to keep the others from getting these and to help this one heal? Can I put some neosporin (sp) and a bandaid on this knees to help them heal. I would...
Last weekend we went to the lake to do a little fishing with the family. There are a few mallards that like this lake. I think we have counted 7 total. It is a small lake and you are not aloud to swim or put any type of boat on the water so it is basicaly just a little fishing lake. We watched...
Today my white scovie turned 3 weeks old, he/she hatched 6/16. From what I have been reading the males will start to double in size and be twice the size of females around 4 weeks old. These are my first scovies so I am not that sure. He/she is just beautiful and a love. If it does end up being...
This morning I woke up to my new yellow scovy having a swollen goopy eye. I put her in the bath and wiped the eye with a warm wash rag. After the bath her eye looked better she could atleast open the eye lids. I don't know if she get pecked but that is my best bet. I have read that saline...
I have a 4 day old muscovy duckling that this morning has very swollen eye lids and goopy eye. I don't know what happened to her, she is in a brooder with other ducklings so she could have gooten pecked.
I put her in a warm bath and that helped open her eye, but the eye lid is still swollen...
Well, today I went to a ladies house and she had some beautiful chocolate scovies that just had ducklings. She also had some scovies that were white and black. I was only supposed to pick up two chicks when I went there. I had been thinking about getting scovies and getting rid of my swedish...
These are the three left over eggs from Cocoa clutch that she hatched out on 5/31 and 6/1. These little squirts are 1 to 2 weeks younger then the rest of the ducklings. I hatched them in my homemade incubator that wasn't at all set up for ducks eggs (still air dry hatch for chicken eggs) These...
Tomorrow I am going to pick up a few chicks and a lady that has Plymouth Rocks, Cuckoo Marans, Silver Laced Cochins, and Blue Andalusians, these are all breeds that I have not owned yet. I was hoping everyone would be able to point out the main differences and help me compare them all. I just...
I am going to the feed store tomorrow to pick up some chicks for my broody GLW. The haev a variety of breeds and I think the one that I am going to get is the brahmas. I don't have any of those so I figured I would get them. I think everyone knows how it goes buying "pullets" from feeds stores...
I have a broody hen that has been broody forever now. I put some eggs under her that I had shipped to me and the transit for the eggs was just to much, non hatched. Now I am trying to find some chicks to put under her. This has turned out to be a real task now. I have found some chicks that are...
Everyone knows about the eggs we have been hatching that are from Cocoa's clutch that are hatching a week+ after the rest of the clutch. The first is doing great. The second one that finaly was able to get out of her egg this morning is really having a problem. When I got up this morning the...
Well as many of you know my broody Cocoa hatched out 8 of her eggs over Memorial weekend and my GLW hatched out 2 of Cocoa's eggs also at the same time. We gave Cocoa the ducklings from under the GLW so she had 10 and four eggs still left in the nest. After two days she got off of the nest and...
I have a duck egg hatching right now in my homemade incubator. Long story short I have silkie chicken eggs in the incubator and had to just add these duck eggs in at the last minute. Now I know the humidity isn't as high as it is supposed to be for duck eggs the last day of incubation. The...
My newly hatched ducklings all came out looking like either there mamma or dad. I was wondering if the ducklings could be sexed using there colors since there are brown ones and black ones. Cocoa the mom was brown as a duckling and Ebony the dad was black as a duckling. I normaly wouldn't care...
My duckling just hatch. I had to help since the membrane was stuck all over him/her. I gently pilled back the shell and membrane. I never saw any blood or anything. I helped with the top half of the shell until she was able to get her head out then stopped. She got herself the rest of the way...
It would be really nice if we could come up with a few good posts on incubating duck eggs and put it under the sticky notes. It is a pain trying to find your answer when you need it quick.
Anyone else think this is a good idea.
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