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We have a hybrid Aylesbury mix x Cherry Valley female duck age 2 and a half months. She was hatched and raised by our broody bantam chicken with whom she still lives, although she sleeps alone.
Her biological parents live in the next run and they have always been able to see each...
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I think my drake, who is an Aylesbury mix, has killed 2 of my cayuga hen ducks. They have both been found drowned in the pond.
They were healthy until now. My husband is furious and threatening to shoot him. I hatched him from an egg, so I am worried for him. Could he be...
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I have a 2 year old Cayuga duck who for the last week has not been able to mobilise properly. One of her legs is not weight bearing and is back like in a swimming position. She seems okay in herself and is still eating and drinking and quacking away normally. We have been giving...
Hi all, not been on here a while, but have a question about an egg!
We have recently moved from the outskirts of a city to the country. We now have a huge garden with the top end being woodland. Our chickens, a cockerel, 3 bantam girls and a cuckoo maran hen and our 3 ducks, Honey the drake...
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My duckling Honey hatched last Sunday and is now 6 days old. She (or he) hatched under his bantam Welsummer mum after being purchased from Waitrose. He was from a box of 6 Clarence Court Braddock White duck eggs I originally bought to bake a cake, but after reading a article on the...
My hobby/interest/obsession is Red Rum, the UK racehorse from the 1970s, who won the grand national 3 times and second twice. He is from the same era as Secretariat.
I also love mediaeval and tudor history and love visiting castles and cathedral.
I am also getting into falconry with owls...
My welsummer bantam is sitting on 5 of her eggs. I think they infertile as I candled them and there is nothing inside, despite the cockerel mating with her. I also put 2 duck eggs beside her and she pulled them under. It is day 12 for the duck eggs and I candled them yesterday and there is a...
Hi I am sam and mum to 3 bantam hens and one cockerel. I have a lavender Pekin called Georgette, a welsummer called Jemima, a Rhode Island Red called Henrietta and a cockerel called Benjamin, although I do not know what breed he is x