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Weird Drake
Hand raised a drake that imprinted pretty well on me. Now hes older and mating etc and exhibiting some behavior im not a fan of. He will run across the yard when I come out of the house and if im standing still he will circle my feet....just doing laps and laps. Rarely biting my pants. Mostly... -
Drake issue with new duckling
I have a 4 week old duckling that i've been introducing a few times daily to my other 4 ducks. (1 drake 3 females). Probably for 2-3 weeks now. I've read on here that drakes can either be really cool with ducklings or try to kill them. The duckling is still indoors and this is the only thing... -
First hatch!
Posted ~ month ago about my first hatch ended up losing all 4 eggs early on. Learned a lot. Started a new one and its day 25. Was just about to put them on lock down. They were at ~47% humidity and ~100 temp... 2 of them had already externally pipped ~half an inch or so. All of them look like... -
Duck Egg incubation help
Cross posting this from the incubation forum for visibility. So I'm towards the end of my first hatch. I started with 4 Ancona duck eggs. All were fertile. I removed 2 about a week in that i THOUGHT quit...but now im pretty sure (after reading more)... were fine. One of the remaining two died... -
Duck egg help
So I'm towards the end of my first hatch. I started with 4 Ancona duck eggs. All were fertile. I removed 2 about a week in that i THOUGHT quit...but now im pretty sure (after reading more)... were fine. One died for certain at around day 15 or so... shell turned dark grey and smelled. Last one...- seussiii
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First time incubator...
It's my first time trying to incubate and I've done some basic reading. Unfortunately my incubator seems a bit ancient. Its a little giant and has no humidity sensor and no digital temp display that I borrowed from a friend. I've been using a thermometer that I had previously from my brooder... -
Fertilized eggs?
I've recently started selling duck eggs on craigslist. I'm getting a ton of people asking for fertilized eggs. I have 2 drakes and 4 ducks so I'm pretty sure they are but for those of you that DO sell them fertilized... how do you tell? I don't want to market them as such unless i know for... -
First injury questions
I have no idea how this duck got injured but it happened about a week ago... its wing is definitely broken. I'm not sure I really want to grab it so I can examine closer but from what I've seen there isn't any blood or a wound. She was sluggish and stand offish for 3-4 days ...not very active... -
Limit clutch size?
I have 4 ducks and 2 drakes. I get 3-4 eggs per day. I'd like to hatch out some ducklings but want to keep the clutch size low. Any strategies for that? They all pretty much lay in the same nest. If All I want to hatch is 3-4 ducklings do I just leave 3-4 in the nest and mark them with a... -
Duck pond water NPK test
I'm still a newbie when it comes to ducks but I started hearing quite a bit about how great the old pond water is for plants. I started out as a pepper guy and wanted to see what I was working with before I applied it to my plants. I got some odd results with a soil test from a big box store... -
Dry or wet feed?!
I was spiraling out of control and binge watching youtube duck videos when I noticed some people do things a bit differently when it comes to feed. Some have separate water and food containers and some seem to just mix them both like a soup. There was even brief mention of fermenting the feed... -
Foraging question
I've read that quite a few of you have your ducks living completely off of forage during the non winter months. My Anconas are a month old and don't seem to be transitioning well. I feed them the grain based diet twice a day but they still seem very hungry by dinner. One thing I've noticed is... -
Garden training!
My anconas are just a month old. Have any of you conditioned/trained your ducks to stay out of the garden? or even better not attack the plants in them? They are in this phase where foraging is new to them and they seem to be testing anything they can get their mouths on. Anyone successful... -
Duck Egg Skelter
Anyone use an egg skelter for their duck eggs? I was going to get one and see a ton on amazon but most of them seem to be built for smaller chicken eggs vs duck eggs. What do you guys use to store eggs? Any skelters out there that actually fit duck eggs that you know of? -
Breeding for egg color
Simple question. Can you breed for egg color? For example. If you removed any white eggs and left only colored ones to hatch...would future generations of ducks lay more and more colored eggs? -
Limiting clutch size
How easy is it to control a broody mothers clutch size? I've read some threads saying they might choose to sit/collect up to 10-15 eggs at a time. If I wanted say... 4-5 ducklings. Can I just let her go broody with 5 eggs, mark them, then remove the new (unmarked eggs) each morning after that... -
Duck starter
I'm a week out from receiving my ducklings and don't have local access too starter feed. Local shop has plenty of unmedicated 16% growers but no starter in stock. Will this do? I could always order some starter online and have plenty of time for that but after reading up it seems like they... -
Mosquito control!
I live in NW FL and mosquitoes are a mess. I've been scouring through google trying to find some answers. I've read a ton of articles/threads hyping up Muscovys as mosquito and fly assassins that "will snatch them straight out of the air as early as a few weeks old".... but not a whole lot on... -
Ducklings feed/niacin
I have half a dozen Ancona ducklings on their way in a few weeks and had a few questions on starter feed. If I were to start them off on a 16% grower feed but supplemented live or dry meal worms.... would this make up the protein difference from the 20% starter? Also, I've been reading quite... -
Hawks for Ancona freerange
Just ordered my first crew of Anconas. Did my research and they seemed to have everything I was looking for...good egg production, size for meat, foraging, etc. For those of you with larger ducks, like the Anconas, do you have a lot of issues with hawks? I'm building a house and run but would...