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Duck egg white cooks CLEAR, not white...very strange
Hi duck people... Long time duck owner here, my family has been eating duck eggs from our small flock for 10 years, but I’ve never seen this before. We’ve now had 2 eggs, that when cracked in a pan for our typical morning fried eggs, the white part cooks CLEAR, not white. I mean really... -
Guineas in a Vineyard?
Hi all - I'm a veteran duck-keeper and thinking about getting guineas for pest control in my 1-acre vineyard in California. I have tons of questions! First - we have tiny blue-green sharpshooters invading our vineyard and spreading a deadly grapevine disease. The mature adults are flying...- lilyduck
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Candling possibly rotten eggs - two air sacs?
Hi all - Yesterday my mama duck was sitting on 5 eggs, 3 had a blueish cast to them. The two normal looking eggs are moving when candled, one has internally piped and I think the other has both internally and externally piped. Today one of the blueist-cast eggs had exploded rotten material... -
Setting mama duck past day 29 - what to do?
Hiyya duck experts - I always turn to you for the best advice when I'm totally stumped, and now I have another problem! I've been letting one of my welsh harlequins sit on her eggs, she's been very dedicated and almost never leaves the nest. But, today is day 30 and I don't see any... -
How soon can you move a mama and ducklings?
Hi all - I have a broody welsh harlequin sitting on 14 eggs right now. She's in the corner of a pen shared with 2 geese, 3 drakes, and 11 other female ducks. I have a little portable fence separating her from the flock while she's setting. But, the fence only gives her about 4 square feet of... -
Raising Geese with Ducks - Overall Good or Bad?
I lost three ducks to a coyote pack this morning, so I'm thinking of ordering new ducklings and a couple of goslings for protection. I browsed through old posts about raising geese, and saw the terrible pictures of goose attacks on ducks, which makes me worried about having geese with my... -
Can ducks really eat whole corn kernels?
Hi there - I have some dried whole corn (still on the cob) that I grew in the garden last year. It's a flour corn variety so the kernels are big and tough. The storey's duck book says that you can give ducks cobs of corn (broken in two) and that the ducks will shell it themselves and eat it... -
Help! Free-ranging ducks don't want to forage
Hi there - I have a flock of 12 free-ranging ducks (about 11 weeks old now- I raised them from hatchlings). About 50 feet from their pen is a lush meadow with lots of tender greens, and 100 ft further is a nice little creek. But they don't want to forage in the meadow or the creek! They...