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    Bloody wings, sibling rivalry.

    My runner babies are getting beat up by their Khaki siblings. Last Thursday this wing was bloody, I surmised that she had gotten her head stuck in the wire mesh of the brooder, flailed around and beat her wings up, the next day I caught the khakis attacking her and pecking her wings. I was away...
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    Moving out? Too young? Too cold?

    My ducklings will be 4 weeks old on 5/21, they can’t be in the house anymore, and they aren’t ready to go out with the big ducks. I am Contemplating a brooder on the porch, my porch is covered and enclosed on 3.5 sides. The brooder would be 4x4 and critter proof. It can have a heat lamp. This is...
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    Pellets VS crumbles

    I am having a hard time finding crumbles at lower protein levels. My runners and Khaki’s are 3 weeks ild now and I am trying to get them off the 22% crumbles to an 18%, I am feeding the big ducks Kalmbach duck/goode pellets, which are small pellets. Today I ran some through food processor, it...
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    So..so tired…

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    MAIL CALL!

    The phone rang at 6:30 this morning, my ducks were in! 2 fawn/white runners 1 black runner 2 K/C I have eggs in the incubator that I wasn’t planning to have as well, I may be giving some away. My daughter wanted a black duck, otherwise I was going to get Buff as well. All were lively and...
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    Kalmbach duck and goose feed

    Has anyone been using this ? I try to support local, but the feed store nearby carries Blue Seal and they don’t offer anything all flock/duck and also at what I would consider a maintenance level of protein. So I have been using TSC Dumor all flock, which I feel no particular loyalty to. This...
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    Marking ducklings to identify them.

    I am ordering ducklings that I will be brooding with ducklings that should be hatching all at about the same time. I want to identify the ones I plan to keep vs the ones I plan to get rid of, what’s the preferred method? Paint on the bill? Leg bands? If so where do I get them? I bought some a...
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    Incubator placement.

    I am trying out a fan forced incubator, I have a dozen duck eggs to put in. My last attempt was an abysmal failure with a little giant still air, on day 26 it spiked the temperature and killed about 15 eggs. I had it in a room with small windows on the north side of my house, still, we heat with...
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    Water bucket injury advice

    Scuba is at it again, getting herself into trouble. Tonight I got home and they were awfully loud out in the duck house, i went to investigate and found Scuba stuck in the 3 gallon rubber water bucket with a 250w heater in the bottom. Her feathers were beat up, saturated and bloody. I brought...
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    Thoughts on Gold Star Hybrid?

    I was gearing up to order some KC's and some runners for spring, but I see these Gold Star say they have a calmer personality than a KC and somewhat better egg laying ability. does anyone have them? McMurray is right up there cost wise with Metzer, presumably because of the current AI...
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    So what was it? Hawk? Owl?

    I had one too few tonight, but I found her inside the 4’ electronet enclosure. No fresh tracks around the fence at all and I can’t pick out any mammal tracks inside, but it’s a little hard to tell right around the carcass. I leave before light and get home after dark the next 2 days, so I am...
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    Thoughts on ordering ducklings with current bird flu situation.

    I am kicking around ordering up to half a dozen ducklings, prices are sort of shocking, but not enough to deter me. What are the thoughts on the wisdom of ordering for spring given the current concerns with the bird flu? Last year I got a couple 4 week old Cayuga, the flock took to them well...
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    RIP Winston

    My drake Winston has been struggling the last couple years, been to the vet, no apparent injuries, tried antibiotics and just about everything elsewe could think of, he even spent a whole winter in my basement with a lady friend. Monday night I noticed he was coughing, last night he needed help...
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    Mergansers in the sun.

    Spotted these while out in my canoe with my wife and daughter. This bight is a common place for loons to nest, although they routinely have raccoon issues.
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    Thoughts on this duckling feed?

    I bought this “special mix” when i got my Cayugas. I was planning to switch them over to Dumor as it runs out. Should I do it sooner? Seems to have a lot of corn.
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    Leg bands

    So these were on the legs of the Cayuga ducklings I just bought home, ostensibly to identify them as girls. They looked flexible, so I didn’t get them off immediately, I finally caught up with my wife last night and we tried to take them off, they were so stiff and tight I had to cut one off...
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    So, Cayugas…

    I bought a pair of Cayuga ducks from a poultry farm here in VT, they are supposed to be 10 weeks, but look a little younger to me, but I’ve been out of the duckling game a while now. One has definite quacks, the other I was worried, but I think we got a couple from it.. so fingers crossed. I...
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    6 week runners with the rest of the flock?

    I have suffered some losses, down to 4 hens, and one drake who is too feeble to mate them, he gets to the food and water and that’s about it. I responded to an ad for 1.5 months old runners, I should be able to sex them by voice, but how about mixing them in with the rest? Do you think I would...
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    Is this broodiness or something more sinister?

    My Harlequin is somewhere around 4 years old, she’s usually pretty adventurous and more apt to be off on her own. I have been home for the last 4 days so they have been out of their fence and moving around. Thursday she was out and around with the ladies, Friday she went down in the lilies and...
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    Homing pigeon info.

    I am sort of interested in learning more about homing pigeons, I guess the ducks aren’t enough 😂 Are there any good books or websites, clubs etc with good information to get started with? Thanks!
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