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  1. Luckyducksinbama

    Day time HUGE owl attack

    1:00 and we had just let the ducks out to forage a bit. They were in my garden area between my kitchen and their coop area. We were just eating lunch when my 13 yo jumped up and said, " mom a big bird is on Jemima' and before I knew it my 13 yo was running like David at Goliath with her sister...
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    Copperheads?

    found a huge copperhead - about 600 feet from the coop in the pasture? It attacked the tractor repeatedly while in use. Our coop is 18 inxhes buried down on all sides of 1/4 inch hardware cloth buried up snd over on all sides. Praying a copperhead can not get into tbat? Moreworried about when...
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    7 month old pekins -2 of them- have built a nest together and

    These girls built a walled nest together and are laying their eggs in it? lol So about duck behavior? Are they doing this to hide the eggs bc we take them? Or are they sleeping together with this cold snap abd built the hay wall around them to stay warm?
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    Any one else raising ducks for eggs due to food allergies? Feed questions?

    Hi, I am raising our ducks to try duck egg since I am allergic to chicken. However, if ducks eggs are like beef for me I am affected if the cow eats wheat (i sm allergic to wheat too). Sooo thinking Head for best outcome of eating a duck egg wondering if anyone else has limited ingredienrs for...
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    Duck has a claw pulled out 1/2 way?

    Our female duck who we just figured out has been injured some by mating by a large drake has today other than an eye injury, a claw 1/2 way pulled out and clotted blood under her skin ? Anyone else see a claw get pulled out while mating ( their are two drakes), or have experience with a claw...
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    Young 5 mo old drakes mating too aggressively?

    So, my 2 drakes this morning were going to injure the females {one imparticular)- the smaller male not so bad. So, we divided up the enclosure for the day trying to fugure out what to do tonight when cold? Do I run by a premade 'dog house' etc to separate at night the males and females?
  7. Luckyducksinbama

    Hi

    Thanks for the add! We are a new duck family to 4 pekins we incubated, which gave us 2 female snd 2 male. We figured we needed more female, so we bought 2 1 week old crested pekins and they are still in the brooder. We built the fort knox of duck enclosures for our duckies. 1/4 inch hardware...
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