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    Waterglassing Duck Eggs

    Has anyone on here tried waterglassing in general? If so what were your results? I prepared two half gallon jars of eggs but have no idea if successful until I wait and try them. I used the huge pickle jars, made sure they were clean then did 1 ounce of pickling lime to 1 quart of water. I was...
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    Same Crack in every egg

    We have had the exact same crack in the exact spot of what I believe is our Cayuga’s egg for 3 consecutive days now. What could be causing this?
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    Duck Not eating?

    A few days ago I noticed our fawn and white runner isn’t eating like the rest of our ducks. They are free range during the day and at night they get penned up and get feed as well. She is one of our more skiddish ducks. Probably even the the most. At first I thought maybe she was full from...
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    Free range. Won’t stay in yard

    Main question: how to get ducks to stay in yard? Don’t need to read but extra info- We have 18 wonderful ducks. They get locked up at night, completely trained to go in at dusk on their own. Will even come when called if have to lock up early. Super friendly, will eat out of your hand and some...
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    HELP!! deformed ducking?

    We had 6 ducks hatch. Thursday night one and the rest Friday morning. It is Saturday night and we have a duckling that needed assistance ( I believe). I know not to help them and they can take time but I believed this one became shrink wrapped and since it was later than the others (which I also...
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    Tiny duck egg

    We are consistently getting this tiny egg, even smaller than a chicken egg. We have some new layers and every week we have another of last summers ducklings starting to lay. I figured after the first few she laid it would gain size but now coming up on a few weeks I’m wondering if the egg size...
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    What kind of eggs??

    The first picture is a Cayuga egg to the right and this small about the size of a chicken egg on the left. I have another thread about that egg specifically if I can find out how to add a link to this thread I will. The smaller egg is almost a shade of green. The Cayuga egg is grey, the photos...
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    Do I need to get rid of drake??

    We currently have 4 drakes and 12 hens. I know we realistically should have 16 hens at the least if we have 4 drakes. We have 6 “older ducks” which are really not that old. 4 of them aren’t even a year yet. Then we have our “babies” that were September ducklings. They for the most part stay very...
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    Runner eggs

    We have 2 blue runners and a fawn and white runner in our flock. Total of 12 hens. We are currently getting about 5 eggs a day and are certain who 2 of the eggs belong to but we just started getting a much smaller egg. Maybe size of chicken egg and it almost has a green tint to it. We tried to...
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    Egg storage for eating

    I know you can leave eggs at room temp for about 3 weeks but if you refrigerate them they last about 3-4 months. I also know if you wash them you have to refrigerate them. We keep our eggs on counter at room temp, however I was curious how it would work if you had them at room temp for about a...
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    Safe to eat???

    Is this duck egg safe to eat? Both pictures are of the same egg. It was laid 4/3 and today is 4/7. Only 4 days old. Also was laid in their coop and collected the morning it was laid. From my research, could be just blood spot? I read they can be darker but most of the pictures I saw looked...
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    Is this Duck egg fertile??

    I do not believe this egg is fertile but curious on other opinions? Do not have much experience with telling if they are as I never needed to know. Last year we did look into it just out of curiosity and you could very easily tell that the eggs we were collecting were fertile. What are your...
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    When will ducks lay??

    Looking for everyone’s experience on when their hens start laying. I know it’s typically 5-6 months (per google) but ducks can be so temperamental and vary flock to flock so just looking for personal experiences on when your young hens first started laying. Also according to weather/time of...
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    Mating

    I’ve owned ducks for a few years and for some reason tonight I had the question on how many eggs are fertilized through one mating session. Google helped me come to the conclusion that typically the sperm will stay in hen for up to 14 days, so essentially a clutch of eggs is fertilized by the...
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    Cross Breeding, Very diverse flock

    We currently have Drakes- Khaki Campbell 2 Blue Swedish Welsh harlequin Hens- Silver swedish Black Swedish Cayuga Welsh harlequin 2 blue runners Fawn and white runner Buff Saxony Golden 300 Silver appleyard Rouen We have a very mixed flock, I was curious if I could get any insight on what...
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    Identifying Duck approx 7 weeks

    I can identify all of my ducklings aside one. Here are some *low quality* pictures. Please let me know if you have an idea what it is. I think we know what it could be bc of what we ordered but we received extra ducklings and lost 2 one of which we are unsure what it was. But wanted to see if...
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    Duck Laying Northern NY

    I know hens begin the lay around 5-6 months old. I have a few girls getting close to this age but am in Northern NY and is already getting chilly out. I know ducks can be temperamental with laying. I know of people having ducks lay through winter and how flocks stop laying altogether during...
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    State to State move with flock

    We might be moving out of state. We would like to bring our ducks with us. Looking for anyone with experience with doing do. Is there restrictions/regulations? Can you just move them with you and not notify anyone or is there suppose to be testing done to make sure they are not bringing...
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    Identifying 3 week old ducklings.

    We received ducklings 3 weeks ago. We ordered 1 of each of the following: Mallard Rouen Buff Golden 300 Runner (fawn and white) Runner (blue) Welsh harlequin Welsh harlequin (only male we ordered) Saxony Silver Appleyard We received 12 ducks however, they did mark we had an extra blue runner...
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    HELP!! injured hen

    We have a hen who is just over a year old. about a month ago she started limping and his left foots middle toe(idk if that’s what they are called on ducks) is swollen. The bottom size of it you can see where it looks like she stepped on something. We figured infection. Cleaned it up sprayed with...
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