I have a male and female Sebastopol goslings and oh my goodness. They are so darling. They took a swim in the bathtub tonight and had a great time. Then afterwards they let me hold them and dry them off. The female just sat on my lap and let me pet her like a dog. They are the cutest things. I...
Is there a way to fix the glitches for the phone app? I have an iPhone that’s updated regularly. When the ads are loaded, it makes the thread jump up and down for quite awhile. I repeatedly get a loading error popup. And when I want to respond to a post, half the time the top 1/8 of my screen...
We are incubating 225 bobwhites right now. I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up a brooder with supplies I already have. I want to use a large squarish kiddie pool
I plan on taking this to my basement and filling the bottom with shavings and figuring out some sort of hardware cloth...
Thr hubs bought some quail for training our hunting pup. I have them in a coop and they have gamebird feed. But they are adult females and not laying. I’m curious if their laying season is over or if they are like my ducks and quit laying when they are stressed? I’d like to incubate some eggs if...
@Shannonw1228 - now you can follow the responses to your questions a little better.:D
I have Welsh harliquin duck eggs in. I'm on day 18. About half of the duck eggs air cell look about day 10. I dropped humidity to 51 I can't get it lower. I started misting yesterday with Luke warm water. I'd...
@Jenn Spencer here is a thread to post your pictures and videos of your ducks. I made you a new thread so that if someone reads the muscovy thread down the road, they won’t get confused with mallard vs muscovy traits.:D
Here is my female cayuga ducklings vs the adults.
Here are some juvenile...
I’m getting pop-ups every time I go to another BYC screen. Is that normal? I have an iPhone, everything is updated. And it only does it on BYC. It pops up right above my keyboard so you can’t see what the ad is unless you accidentally click on it when typing.
I’m looking for anyone that has a certificate of analysis for what they feed their ducks. Or email from the manufacturer with amounts of ingredients. I’m trying to put together some information on nutrition and thought I would see if anyone had done that part of the legwork and was willing to share.
Now that laying season is starting for most of us, I thought it would be neat for everyone to post pictures of their beautiful eggs. Or enormous ones! Or a hilarious place you found your eggs.
Here are some from my Cayugas and Pekin.
Now that laying season is starting for most of us, I thought it would be neat for everyone to post pictures of their beautiful eggs. Or enormous ones! Or a hilarious place you found your eggs.
Here are some from my Cayugas and Pekin.
Anytime I go into my TSC they always ask me if I want my items bagged. Whether I have 2 or 20 items. Another gal at the store just starts shoving all the stuff back into my cart without bagging it. I live in the Midwest so it’s not like I live in California where I know they have different...
I have a Pekin that’s just under a year old. She keeps getting chased of from the group by the drake. I noticed she was limping a few days ago and have been watching her. The limp has got a little worse so I brought her in gave her a warm soak and took some pictures. Now she’s resting in the mud...
We were given these goats today for free. Their owner was going to put them down because they were jumping out of their pen. They are 1 yr old twin males named Jack and Mark is all I know.
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I have 6 ducks in my fenced in back yard. It’s about 1/2 an acre. They are free to roam during the day. This is my first year to have them. I’ve looked at lists of toxic plants for birds and unfortunately it’s most of the plants in my backyard. I have azaleas, roses, day...
I currently have 6 ducks, a cat, and a dog. Right now anything that comes over our fence and isn’t let in by us humans is dead. My lab is an excellent guard dog. But he is an old guy. I’m wondering when he finally passes, what will help keep the ducks safer. Our house backs up to fields and some...
Hello all. I was curious how long the eggs are fertilized once a drake mates with a hen? I know in humans sperm can stay alive in the reproductive tract for about 3 days but did not know how it works with ducks.
I went out to the shed today and what did I find? Our first egg!!:wee
My Pekin is around 8 months old and our cayugas are 6 months. I first assumed it was the Pekin, but then I seen black feathers in the nest. Of course it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. But I don’t know if Pekins normally...
Here is a video of Marshmallow. What is she flapping her wings for? None of my other ducks are doing this. The only other time I seen her do this was right after a dog attacked her......
I have been watching my ducks the last week or so since they were attacked. They are doing well thankfully, however I’ve noticed my two males not getting along. I have a black swedish male who is the boss, the cayuga male who is the most gentle giant, and five females. I had 6 until the attack...