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    Marking chicks

    Can I use a sharpie to mark my chicks so I can tell them apart? I was thinking about just making a little streak on their backs Thanks
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    Blue Swedish x welsh harlequin

    When you mix a drake Welsh harlequin and a hen blue Swedish will the duckling always be black and yellow or could it be blue like the mom?
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    Sick duck

    I first noticed one of my ducks acting weird about 2 weeks ago. She will just stand separate from the rest of the flock. She won’t eat hardly anything but drinks a ton. She just kinda stands there with her eyes half shut. I’ve been letting her sit in warm tubs of water and have gotten her to...
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    Moving nest?

    I have a duck that I think is acting broody. I saw her little nest but there is only two eggs in it. It is not in a safe spot. If I move those two eggs into a coop and let her start laying eggs there will she want to sit on them?
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    When can ducklings go outside?

    I am soon getting 15 ducklings. I know they are going to grow out of the kiddie pool that I have inside very fast. I am going to get them mid to late feb. we live in central Oklahoma. My question is how old do they have to be to go outside in there coop? It is a fully inclosed coop and I will...
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    What should I do!! Help

    So this egg had a tiny hole in it for about 24 hours. Another one that was in there looked the same as this guy and he just died. We started to help this one out of the shell. We started seeing a little blood so we stopped. We put some coconut oil on the membrane to keep it moist. It’s been 9...
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    Will anymore pip?

    I am hatching duck eggs and today is day 28. I put in 17 healthy looking eggs into lockdown. During the first 25 days my temperature was 99.5 and humidity was around 50%. Yesterday at 4:30pm (day 27) one egg externally pipped. This morning there was one more egg that had externally pipped. It is...
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    How to keep ducklings in the winter

    I am probably going to order some welsh harlequin ducklings from Metzer farms because my hatching experience didn’t go to well. Is there any way I can build a brooder and keep them outside during December in Oklahoma?
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    Roo or hen. 4 weeks old

    This is my friends chicken
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    What to buy for wry neck.

    I hatched a duckling with wry neck. It was really bad at first but this morning when I took her out of the incubator it was a lot better. I read about how they get it and stuff but what exactly do I have to buy at tractor supply
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    Is this a welsh harlequin?

    I got 14 eggs from Metzer farms. Only 8 of them made it to lockdown and two died after they had externally pipped. Anyway 3 hatched (terrible hatch rate) and one is a Rouen. At first I thought that was probably that extra egg they sent. I thought the other two were a male and female welsh...
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    Dark spot on duck egg day 27

    There is a weird dark spot on this egg. It is on the big end where the air cell is and I am worried about it
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    Dark spot on a a duck egg day 27

    It is day 27 and there is a big dark spot on the big end of the egg. What should I do
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    Help! Chick with messed up leg

    I know I have already posted this in two other categories but I need all the opinions I can get. This chick hatched around 18 hours ago and something is wrong with his leg. One leg looks fine but the other one is tucked up against his body and he can’t stretch it out or walk.
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    What is on this chick!?

    This chick just hatched a few minutes ago. What are those little dots on his feathers?
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    Should I help

    So this little egg has looked like this since around 2pm today and it is now 9:50pm. He will push out a piece of the shell but it still attached and the piece just falls back into place. He peeps sometimes but I feel like he is not moving as much now. It is only day 2020. I don’t want him to die
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    How to fix detached air cells in shipped eggs

    My Welsh harlequin eggs arrived from Metzer Farms. I candled them and most of them have detached air cells that move around the whole egg and some have them that just move around the top half. I am letting them sit for 24 hours before I put them in the incubator. Should I let them sit upright in...
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    How to fix Detached air cells

    My Welsh harlequin eggs arrived from Metzer Farms today and I think all of them have detached air cells. Some of them move all the way around the egg and some of them just move around the top half. The eggs are 5 days old. Is the only thing I can do let them sit for 24 hours? I really want to...
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    How to get the best hatch rates with shipped eggs.

    So I have ordered 14 welsh harlequin hatching eggs from Metzer Farms and I have been reading a lot about shipped eggs and how not many of them hatch. The eggs should be here Monday or Tuesday. I know I should leave them in a egg carton pointy end down for 24 hours. But I have heard some people...
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    Questions about incubating and hatching eggs

    My first question is I ordered hatching eggs from Metzer Farms so do I have to let them sit for 24 hours before I put them in a incuabtor? Also I have a DIY incubator so the temperature goes from a 101 degrees to 98 degrees, what should I try to keep it a 100.5 or 99.5? What should the humidity...
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