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    Broody pekin?

    Some of you may remember that I hatched 6 pekins and 2 mallards in my classroom last fall. They have been living on my parents 40 acre ranch in colorado since december. I came home this weekend for a quick visit before school starts. Since december they lost both mallards and one of the pekin...
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    Need to Rehome drakes in CO

    Ive posted before about my parents who took my ducklings. There has been an over breeding issue of one of my mallards with my pekin drakes. There are 3 pekin drakes, 2 pekin females, and 2 mallard females. We have two overzealous males. My parents cannot take on anymore ducks. I was hoping...
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    A True Duck Story from San Antonio , Texas

    This story came to me from one of the other teachers in the building...its worth a read. Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck...
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    WTB Call, Runner, and BEI Hatching Eggs: Fort Worth Tx,

    I am looking to buy eggs in the middle of next week after my payday. I am looking for 6 BEI eggs, 6 Runner eggs, preferably multiple colors 12 call eggs, preferably multiple colors PM me if you can help. Thanks.
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    a question...

    Well, as the school year comes to a close I have found myself without something to do this summer. I had so much fun hatching ducks this fall that I was thinking of buying some hatching eggs over the summer and hatching out some babies. I do not however have a place to keep these babies...
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    dumping ducks...

    Yesterday, I was sitting at the photo kiosk in walmart making books for my students that collage all the pictures we have from raising ducklings this year. I was there for almost an hour working on one book. The photo lady started walking behind me and watching what i was doing...she made a...
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    Over Breeding

    I have tried to do a search on here on the subject, and I know that it happens a lot. My parents are having some issues with the babies they took from me. We had 3 male pekins, 2 female pekins, and 2 female mallards. For some reason, the boys are breeding the heck out of one of the mallards...
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    Duck having trouble breathing...Update 3-22

    Hey guys, I havent posted in a while since my parents took my babies. However, They have run into an issue and my mom does not know what to do. One of our girls, a 4 1/2 month old pekin, is showing some signs of distress. I havent seen it, but my mom said she seems to be having trouble...
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    Colorado Bound...We made it! UPDATED WITH PICS! 1-6

    Well I finally have some time to let you guys know how our trip went. We ended up putting the ducks in a nylon pop up dog crate. 25$ at walmart...it was the best thing ever. The ducks ended up traveling in our trunk. The smell was just too horrible. It was nice and dark and that way they...
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    Trip to colorado...T minus 25 hours and counting!

    I have a small dog carrier that I am going to put 1 pekin and two mallards in it together. That leaves 5 pekins in the large dog crate. I am planning on giving them water but no food...and putting a puppy pad or two down on the bottom of the carrier. I am going to enclose the bottom edges and...
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    Final Count

    I put leg bands on the ducks today and got to hear their voices indivudually. I have 3 male pekins 3 female pekins and 2 female mallards. I think thats a pretty good ratio isnt it? Will that be workable or am I going to need to get rid of one of the males? What do you guys think? The pekins...
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    Should I be worried about this? (poo pictures)

    Its really smelly and splashes everywhere...at least 4 of the 8 are doing this... Too much water? Something they ate? Can i give them say banana to harden it up? I would really like for them not to be doing this on our 12 hour car ride in T-minus 7 days.
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    Anyone ever order from hoof and hen ranch?

    http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/hoofandhenranch/StoreFront? I ordered some leg bands for my ducks to tell them apart...lucky for me it was only $3. But My order status hasnt changed in over a week. I tried to call to see what is going on and it went to a mailbox that is apparently full...
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    Anyone ever order from hoof and Hen Ranch?

    http://store03.prostores.com/servlet/hoofandhenranch/StoreFront? I ordered some leg bands for my ducks to tell them apart...lucky for me it was only $3. But My order status hasnt changed in over a week. I tried to call to see what is going on and it went to a mailbox that is apparently full...
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    One month old...Very Pic Heavy

    I cannot believe how fast they have grown. I love coming up to the school and sitting with them in the courtyard for an hour or two on the weekends. They are getting their feathers so fast and they are so big! The mallards are getting beautiful colors. Here are some pics of our lazy...
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    Peas....

    So are these ducky crack or what??? For our 3 week old celebration I thought i'd try peas since so many of you talk about how much your duckies like them. OMG! They were gone in like 2 minutes and then the ducks were running in circles around the pan of pea water...they were running so fast...
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    First quacks...LOL

    OMG i am hearing the first signs of quacking today. It reminds me so much of a boys voice that is changing. Im watching them just peep away and then all of a sudden a HONK comes out of their mouth and they look so startled by it! So funny. Question though...do they peep more when their...
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    Something under the brooder...

    I need something absorbent to put under my brooder. The water drips through the bottom of the brooder and to a catcher underneath. Previously I've had kitty litter under there. It worked for a week or so, but now they are just dumping so much water that the litter cant absorb it. I know that...
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    Two Weeks Old

    3 of my babies turned 2 weeks old today, the other 5 will do so over the next 3 days. We celebrated outside with our first taste of bananas floated in the water (LOVED them) and a new swimming pool! We were given a blue plastic kiddie pool by one of the other teachers. Before they were...
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    Cuts/Sores on their feet?

    This is my first hatch and experience with poultry. I hatched 8 ducklings over 4 days last week. They are now now 7, 6, 5, and 4 days old. All of my babies seem to have these cuts/sores on their feet and I have no idea what could be causing them. By brooder is lined with the soft shelf...
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