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  1. Isabella Mcadams

    Keeping clean tips?

    Hey y’all, I’ve got eleven ducks and I have a house for them to sleep in at night that I bed with large flake pine shavings. It gets SO dirty SO fast, so I was wondering if y’all had any tips for keeping things clean. I hate having to wash feces off my eggs the day after I clean their house. I...
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    Abandoned Duckling?!

    Hey there everybody, So today this little duckling was found in a backyard by itself, so I took it home to care for it and hopefully add it to my flock of 12. I’m pretty certain that it’s a Black Bellied Whistling Duck, but I’m not totally sure. I’m just curious if that’s the right breed, how...
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    Strange behavior in juvenile

    Hi all, Some of you may remember, one of my ducks hatched a clutch in mid may, and they’re all turning out really nicely The other day, as I was looking out through the window, one of the juveniles started flailing around in the ground, wings flapping and everything. I thought maybe a snake or...
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    Duck hatched her own eggs. How to care for them?

    Hi all, my kahki Campbell is hatching a clutch of her own eggs, and so far everything is going great. The mama is semi-free range (she’s in a large fenced-in area during the day that I move around the yard every few days) and I feed her layer pellets everyday. What do I need to do? Do I need...
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    Are these normal duckling feet?

    Hi all, I hatched these cuties about two weeks ago (some of you might remember it was a bit of a hard hatching) and I was inspecting their feet today and I’m not sure if they’re quite normal:
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    Duckling with deformed head?

    Hello all, can someone help please? This duckling was just born, and breech, and has got this thing on its head: It’s peeping just fine, but unlike its siblings it can’t hold its head up and just flails around on its back. Will I need to put it down? And if so, what’s the most humane way of...
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    It’s been 24 hours since internal pip. Should I make a safety hole?

    Hey all I need some advice, It’s day 29 of incubation for my khaki Campbell/pekin mix eggs, and only one duckling (as far as I can tell) internally pipped about a day ago. Should I wait a bit longer, or go ahead and make a safety hole? I can hear more than one duckling tapping on the inside of...
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    Is this a normal sized embryo?

    Hi there, I’m incubating duck eggs, and today they’re at day 25. I’m wondering if this is normal: (#2 and #3 are of the same egg) Both embryos are still very much alive and move around a lot. Just wondering if the size and orientation is normal.
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    Not a really a question but an observation

    Hello all! I’m currently incubating 5 Welsh Harlequin/Pekin duck eggs and I’m curious about success rates for everyone else. I hatched a batch of 6 a few years ago with a 100% success rate, and so far, with the five eggs I‘m incubating now everything is going along very smoothly; they are in...
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    Allergy to Duck Eggs?

    Hi there, So I'm raising 5 ducks for eggs at the moment, 3 Welsh Harlequin/Pekin and 2 Pekins. The Welsh/pekins started laying at the beginning of April. Let's just say I ate a merengue with 6 duck eggs and was sick as a dog all night. Now, I've had duck eggs before, once or twice, fried, but...
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    Ducks running away

    Hey there, I have 3 adult ducks and two 5 week old ducklings. My 3 adults are free range, while the ducklings are still in a brooder. In our backyard we have a large bayou (kind of like a river, but on a slightly smaller scale) do any of y’all know a way to keep my ducks from going into the...
  12. Isabella Mcadams

    Hello

    Hello everybody, I’m new here. My name is Isabella, and I’m the (amateur) owner of 5 duckies. I’m definitely not experienced in raising ducks, but I’m learning as I go.
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