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    Good vibrations??

    My male call duck vibrates whenever he see"s me, I read somewhere that this is a sign that they are happy when they vibrate. Occasionally when vibrating he would jump up my arm. Because of this I began to think that maybe he was becoming aggressive, so I sat down with him and had a good talk to...
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    Opps wronf one forgive me

    Hi all so I've been candling this egg and I believe it might be a set of twins, any ideas??
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    Twin ducklings

    Am I right in thinking that this is twin embryo?
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    Heating your brooder?

    Hi So I had 8 eggs but 1 wasnt fertile so now have 7 eggs in my incubator and day 11 so far,so good. 🤞🤞🤞 These one seem to be so much better than my previous attempts with ebay eggs! As none of the eggs I had before hatched I never got to the point of setting up a brooder for newly hatched...
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    Duck nests

    Hello all Firstly thank you for reading this. My story so far! I tried for a couple years to hatch eggs from ebay, all attempts failed, I think in part from the incubator (never buy cheap!!) In the end last August I purchased 4 miniature silver appleyard which I was told were all girls, so when...
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    To allow my miniature silver appleyard hen to sit on her eghs or not??

    Hello all, So I have 2 call ducks and 2 silver appleyard male and female of each, my female silver appleyard has made a nest in a cut down but regrowing palm type tree, I was surprised as I thought my call female was the one who was going to be a mummy 1st but its my gorgeous moron bongo who...
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    Quacking.... please help!!

    Good morning all, I don't know what to do, I have 4 miniature silver appleyard ducks, 3 boys 1 girl (yes i know the ratio is all wrong but i was told when i got them they was all girls) believe it or not they quack but not excessively. All was well. Then I took on 2 more ducks the previous owner...
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    Miniature appleyard voices

    Hi all!! So my 'girls' are now 10 weeks and 4 days. Bongo quacks away so I am confident she is a female but the other 3 make a variety of noises but sometimes there is the odd little quack but for the most part its a whoop type noise and peeping. I have checked online and some say males have...
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    Hello all! Ducky mummy 🇬🇧

    Hi all, I am Emma Mummy to 13 beautiful babies 2 I made, aged 23 and 10👨‍👧‍👦, 2 cats 🐈‍⬛🐈Binx and Rosie (Rosie was once a stray who we fell in love with and she wanted us to be her forever family) 5 fish, a bristlenose, swordtail and 3 bubble mollies 🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠and my reason for being on here my 4...
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    The next step?!?!

    I too am a new ducky mumma, my girls are apparently 6/7weeks old although I think one is from a younger hatch. I have had them 18 days. When I first got them home they was scared of everything within days spending hours sitting with them (them on the dining table so we are on the same level) we...
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    Pipped or not pipped this is the question

    Hi, I havent had much luck with incubating my duck eggs. (I blame the incubator) but thats neither here nor there. On tuesday one of my eggs was chirping, getting the family all excited. However this was on day 20, i stopped turning the egg but continued to turn the others since then i haven't...
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    • Forum: Ducks
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    To pip or not to pip this is the question

    Hi, I havent had much luck with incubating my duck eggs. (I blame the incubator) but thats neither here nor there. On tuesday one of my eggs was chirping, getting the family all excited. However this was on day 20, i stopped turning the egg but continued to turn the others since then i haven't...
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    • a lot of chirping hatching eggs pipping piping incubator day 20 lockdown advice not chirping
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    • Forum: Ducks
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    Help!!!

    Hi, my incubator fell on the floor and one of my eggs cracked although the membrane is in fact I have sealed the crack with candle wax. I cant decide if there is movement in the egg or not. Has anybody had a similar issue and/or how didn't turn out for you?? Many thanks in advance
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