My daughter and I have been visiting a wild mallard nest near our house for a few weeks to check her progress. Today we arrived to a slew of feathers and abandoned eggs. It was clear the he'd had been killed. I collected the remaining eggs and took them home to candle and incubate thinking that...
I have a lone duckling that hatched 3 days ago, the only one of 4 eggs that made it. He's brooding with a single week old chick right now but I think I'll go and get each of them a friend after reading several posts about how it's better for them to be with their own kind.
Anyway, I'm not sure...
I have a week old chick who is the only one to survive and has never known anything but solitary life. I just hatched a duckling, hopefully the first of a few. I only have one heat lamp/tote brooder and was hoping to keep the babies together but the chick is rather mean and keeps pecking the...
Hi all! I have 4 duck eggs in an incubator, and we are on day 28! over 24 hours ago, I noticed a couple VERY small external pips (more like bubbles, shell didn't fall away). I haven't heard any peeping or seen movement since, but I've read that ducks can take longer to hatch than chickens. I've...
Hi! I'm Jessica, mom of 2 and new to raising chickens as an adult. As a kid we had a poultry farm: chickens, ducks, geese, so not entirely my first rodeo, but Im still very green.
I recently acquired a few chicken and duck eggs from a friend's farm as an experiment gift for my daughter's...
My 6 day old chick was stepped on by my daughter while she was out on our kitchen floor. Since then (s)he's favoring her right leg. I've felt for breaks but don't feel anything out of the ordinary, and it looks The same as the left when I turn her over. The leg seems to be slightly more out to...