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  1. DanielleInUro

    Kangal/Anatolian Pup: Training to not murder ducks while I'm standing there.

    We have eight ducks in a fairly large suburban yard who are beloved pets. One gets sick, they go to the vet. One dies, there's full funeral ceremony. If I woke up tomorrow and they were all identical-looking, I could tell you who's who in about five seconds on behavior alone. They're the...
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    THOSE CHUCKLEHEADS TOLD ME

    that Coturnix won't hatch their own eggs. I used to raise them for meat, but my better half got all tender hearted last spring and begged me not to slaughter the breeders I'd kept over the winter. Fine, now they're his pets. We had six, but one disappeared, one dropped dead, a predator got...
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    Matthew and the Little Sister Wives

    Last august, I hatched a clutch of Welsh Harlequin eggs, intending to keep two girls for my two drakes, Bork and Willie (evening out my male to female ratio is an ongoing process and could take up a whole post). In a moment of weakness, I also kept a WH drake, reasoning that if I wanted to...
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    Plants that can grow faster than my ducks can eat them. Difficulty: Texas

    At the end of winter this year, my nine ducks had reduced the "duck" section of my back yard (around 2/3rds, fenced) to a filthy, stinking mud hole. I'm on my second 50 pound bag of grass seed since February, and we are winning. The duck yard has a thin layer of grass covering most of it, with...
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    Cashew pulp as duck treats?

    I've started making cashew milk and going through it at about a quart every other day. I've got about half a cup of "cashew pulp" left after I finish squeezing out the liquid. I hate throwing it away, because that was CASHEWS, yo! But I'm not a fan of it in falafel, and I'm ambivalent about...
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    My Welshies are 7ish weeks old (Pics)

    They are HUGE. And gorgeous. And so sweet. I am so proud of them. Matthew has already grown into the sweetest duck I've ever known, and Bertie is so gorgeous I can't even. And little Janis is practically my Jenny reincarnated, and makes us laugh quite a lot. Here they are chewing on my...
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    Cayuga Drake charging and biting 4 week old Welshies

    I need somebody to tell me everything might still be okay. My adult ducks--Bork (Drake, Cayuga), Willie (Drake, buff), Pica (duck, bowling pin with eyes) and Trish (duck, Rouen). My 4.5 week old Welsh Harlequins--Matthew (Drake), Bertie (Duck) and Janis (Duck.) Bork, Willie, and Pica were...
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    My three-week-old Welshies

    My three Welsh Harlequins (Bertie, Matthew, and Janis) were three weeks old yesterday. They are beautiful, sweet little guys and I am so proud of them. Here are my little guys: Three-duck soup Just standing around looking cute. Two weeks, waiting to be handed some tomatoes.
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    Six WH ducklings hatched--broodercam is a go.

    Ordered thirteen eggs from Metzer. Eight started to hatch, six made it, they are fluffing up and figuring out eating and drinking. I've got a live-feed on my facebook and marked it public so it's viewable. I am proud of my little guys and so relieved it's done and I got ducklings out of it...
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    WH girls + Cayuga boy?

    This is an indelicate topic, so if you really feel strongly that ducks should wait until marriage to do what ducks do, or if you think it's rude to talk about precisely what happens when a girl duck and a boy duck really love each other, you might not care for this topic. So I had two boys and...
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    Multiple Quail (meat processing question)

    Hi all, I just woke up late, am going to shower, and then butchering my three extra roos is on my to-do list. I'm plucking instead of skinning, because having had it both ways, the skin is the best part to me. But this will be the first time I've done multiples at a time, and I don't have a...
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    Quail eat ants vs Ants Eat Quail

    I live in Dallas, which means stinging ants. When I decided to start raising quail for meat, I had something of an aversion to wire cages for my guys--I want to cram as much happy-living into the eight weeks they'll be on earth before they're in my freezer as possible, and that to me means...
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    Need Welsh Harlequin Breeder recommendation for eggs--Show Quality? (Or at least sex-linked?)

    tl;dr Need to know a breeder from which to order WH eggs who's kept very true to the Holderread line, or at least someone who's kept very true to the sexable-by-bill-color part of WH's. Hi all, I've got a clutch of quail slated to hatch on Satuday. Right after they come out and move, I...
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    Stopped lurking, started speaking, should probably also speak "hello." (Dallas)

    Hi, I'm Danielle. (Or as I introduce myself at work, "Danielle in Urology.") I'm in Dallas, I work at a hospital here, and about seven-ish months ago, we bought a house with a big backyard and started raising ducks. Then about two-ish months ago, I started raising coturnix quail too. The...
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    What on earth is Willie? (Difficulty: Besides "a duck.")

    Hi all, long time reader, first time poster. I have a puzzle with absolutely no stakes and no urgency, but I've been curious about it for months. I have five perfect little ducks who we love very much--our Rouen (Trish), and four mixed ducks. We know Jenny is half Khaki Campbell and half...
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