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    new to turkeys - have a few questions

    A friend of my husband called us last night - he knows that we have pet ducks - 1 male & 1 female mallard and their brand new 8 babies! I keep them in a 10 x10 x 6 covered kennel at night and they free range during the day. This friend has 4 baby turkeys - not sure how old they are, he just...
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    possible blind newly hatch mallard

    We had 8 mallards hatch over the weekend. One appears to be blind. It follows momma and siblings - apparently by sound, and is eating and drinking but is occasionally getting lost/left behind. Both eyes are solid milky white. Is this baby blind? Someone suggested it may be the third eyelid...
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    Babies born!! see the cuteness! 8 babies but one is blind

    A month or so ago, I lost all but 2 of my ducks. I was blessed during this nighmare that the two that remained were a pair of mallards - Nana and Boom-Boom - she started a nest, and I decided to let her have a go at it....Friday night we had our first baby and the other 7 were hatched off and...
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    Emergency Help Need - just rescued

    I just found 11 baby woodducks - can't be more than a few days old, walking down Main Street in my town. The momma has been hit by a car and is dead. I have all the babies in a large box with towels in the bottom. I went and bought game bird crumbles, and a quart size plastic poultry waterer...
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    tragic death yesterday....

    My broody muskovy was killed sometime yesterday.....I opened the night pen around 7:30 yesterday morning to let the other 4 out, and she was happily setting on her nest - we have babies due to hatch in the next week or so. When I came home from work around 5:00, I went to give her a treat - I...
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    easter egg ideas needed

    I have about 4 dozen duck eggs - muskovy, pekin, and mallard, that I have "blown out". I would like some ideas as to decorating them for Easter, with my 2 youngest daughters, ages 7 and 12. Does anyone have suggestions, pictures, etc? I would like to do something besides dye only. We have a...
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    Just ducky pictures!

    My "babies" are now a year old - 3 females, 2 males, I just thought I'd share some pics of them last night when I put them up for the night. Big Momma - the normally white pekin, has found the rice field behind our house and loves swimming in the ditch that surrounds it. I don't think she will...
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    hatch date questions

    I have a muskovy, who started setting on April 1st. She is setting on her eggs, pekin eggs, and mallard eggs....all fathered by my two mallards. The last time I looked closely, there were over 30 eggs under her! She is quite the good momma - so far! She just turned 1 year old and this is the...
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    non-broody ducks - questions please advise

    My three girls, pekin, muskovy, and mallard (all about 11 to 12 months old) are all laying eggs - in three different places. I am getting an egg a day from each. The pekin and mallard had about 20 eggs each and last weekend, I tossed all of them....they had crushed several and it was a stinky...
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    house full of eggs - help - what now?

    Our ducks had quit laying for quite a while and although I was cleaning the pen daily, I had quit checking the "house" for eggs - until this weekend, when I decided to give it a good scrubbing and change out the hay....I have two male mallards, one female pekin, one female muskovy, and 2 female...
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    Broody hen question

    I have a muskovy hen (also a pekin and a mallard hen) who have been laying for several months. I collect eggs daily and this has never been an issue - until today....I let them all out of the night pen this morning and everyone went running out, as usual, except the skovy. She is sitting on...
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    Blue-Coat question

    Can I use blue coat on a chest wound on my muskovy? It is in a spray can - any suggestions on application if ok to use? Thanks!
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    duck attacked - chest wound advice needed

    I came home yesterday to find my muskovy in the duck house alone while the others were out and about. I went in the pen to check on her and found blood on her breast feathers. After inspection, she has a torn spot under her feathers - it's like something peeled the skin away from the meat...
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    egg question **pictures added***who laid which?

    I didn't have time to get pics this morning but will post them tomorrow. I have a female pekin who has been laying consistently since August. The past two mornings, I have found 3 eggs in the nest box. One is the same as all the other pekin eggs, one is the same size but darker in color, and...
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    hunting season drawing near - protection for our ducks

    I need some advice....I live in Stuttgart, Arkansas - which is the duck hunting capital of the world....this will be my first duck season with my ducks. We are out in the country and have two duck clubs very close to us....I have 8 ducks - 1 runner, 1 pekin, 2 muskovy, and 4 mallards (which are...
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    id bands for ducks?

    I would like to get some sort of "id tag" for our 8 ducks. Any suggestions? I know you can get numbered leg bands but I am wondering if anyone makes them with your name, address, etc - like a dog tag. We have 4 mallards that love to fly the neighborhood - we are also in South East Arkansas...
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    boys or girls? any guesses?

    they are 15 weeks old and the same size. not much sound except an occasional trill/squeal.
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    can you use the eggs layed without a shell?

    Just curious if it is safe to use the eggs layed that don't have shells. I wouldn't really think so but it never hurts to ask.
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    egg question - 2 with no shell

    My 5 month old pekin layed her first egg on Saturday, another on Sunday, monday, and Tuesday mornings - all perfect but when I came home yesterday, and was cleaning their pool and pen, she came into the pen and layed 2 more eggs, right beside me, the second quite smaller than the first but...
  20. kylee2katie

    got eggs!!!

    Big Momma, my pekin who was born on April 2, 2010 suprised me Saturday morning! I went out around 6:30 to let them out of the night pen and clean it out. While I was spraying the concrete paver stones around the ramp to their pool, an egg rolled out!! It was cracked in several places so my...
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