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  1. lazytrucker

    Ideas for egg laying cross??? Help with genetics.

    Does anyone want to help me plan a fun cross??? I want to hatch some good egg layers for a friend and she already has red/buff birds and wants a different color for this year. I wouldn't mind getting her some fun egg colors if it wouldn't reduce egg production too much. Also possible is just...
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    Any guesses as to what breed (s) ???

    The lady I got the eggs from didn't seem familiar with what she had and I didn't get to see all her ducks so I'm just curious. I've had 5 hatch so far. Other than the two pictured the bills are mostly dark but not really black. I have a couple with jet black feet, maybe one yellow and a couple...
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    Two external pips???

    This is my first time with duck eggs and it seems like all of the eggs that have pipped have move a little and pipped again. Do duckling normally do this? It doesn't really seem like zipping yet.
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    Broody chicken on guinea egg question

    Hi! I have a Jersey Giant hen that hatched and raised 12 Jersey Giant chicks. Is there any reason this same chicken can't hatch and raise 18 guinea keets?
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    Help with over due egg?

    I have one last egg that hasn't hatched. I think I still see slight movement when I candle it. The other 26 eggs hatched a couple days ago. I see air space at the bottom of the egg in addition to the air cell at the top. I'm really just curious if someone has an idea what might be going on. I...
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    Which ones are guinea eggs????

    I've been walking around our pasture for weeks looking for guinea eggs and hadn't found any. I started getting some in our chicken nest boxes that I thought might be guinea eggs but I wasn't totally convinced. I had been eating some that I thought the yolk was way bigger than chicken eggs and...
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    Is this keet still alive??? Need help with complicated situation.

    @R2elk @PeepsCA HISTORY- I couldn't help myself and put and put 2 guinea eggs under a broody hen a couple days apart as I found them. (Didn't understand about staggered hatches yet...) She started getting flakey and would get off the eggs to go set on one that was just laid in other nest. I...
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    Help! What do I do with this newly hatched keet??

    I had one keet hatch last night at 11pm in my incubator. I have one left to hatch that was staggered 2 days behind. I'm hoping to have my broody chicken raise them. She was a bit flakey switching eggs so I took the good ones from her and gave her fake eggs. I think I'm going to leave it in the...
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    Weird egg yolk spots

    Hi all. I've looked through the learning center for egg problems and did a search but I'm not finding my egg issue. I have one hen who's eggs look fine when I first crack them in the pan but when they're starting to heat through the yolk these weird pale spots/areas show up. I don't notice it in...
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    Scary poop, weight loss? and no eggs

    Hi all, Short version - I have a 9 month old hen that is not laying and had a weird poop. I think she has lost some weight as well. She is still quite active. Doesn't seem sick at all except for the symptoms listed. My other birds quit laying with the cold and two were molting but after I...
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    How old are these keets?

    I just bought these keets yesterday. From what I read the little ones are probably 3-4 days old. They are just starting to get their wing feathers. What about the bigger ones?? Anyone hazard a guess of the age?
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    What to do with these guinea eggs???

    I just found 6 guinea eggs in some weeds inside my chicken yard where i had put a golf ball. i'm assuming they may not be very edible since at least one has been sitting in the heat for 6 days. I would love to have some keets especially since this nest is in a safe place but not sure about a...
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    Molting or sick?

    Edit: So I had two male guineas that were pretty aggressive to my rooster then one disappeared. Once he was gone the other one stayed around for a few days then started disappearing for days at a time. Fearing that he would become coyote lunch as well I started looking for some company. I found...
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    Hello from a long time lurker

    Hi all, I guess I've been a member since 2015 so I might have introduced myself before but its been a while. I've been steady soaking up information waiting for the right time to get my chickens. I had a couple chickens some years ago but I had bird dogs too... Bad combination... I just...
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    Finally built it!

    I've been lurking and reading for quite some time but I thought I would share my coop. I hunted for plans forever and finally used the creative mom's plans with huge modifications. I remember studying the bayou swamp coop pretty hard for ideas. I came in way over budget and over time but its...
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    Failure to thrive?? or not?

    Hi all, I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time and finally got my coop built and obtained some chickens. I got two chicks at the same time and one looks great and the other has grown to about the same size but looks a bit like a war survivor. No blood and hasn't been pecked but just...
  17. lazytrucker

    Hi ya'll from Texas panhandle.

    My Google searches for duck information kept landing me on BYC so I thought I'd join:) just adopted 3 adult ducks ad have spent the last 2 days trying to figure out what to do with them...(my cattle aren't too sure either)
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