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Horticultural/potting grit instead of poultry grit?
Hi all, Would horticultural grit be a suitable replacement for normal poultry grit for my ducks? I am struggling to find poultry grit in a larger quantity, that doesn't also contain oyster shell. My local feed stores only sell plain flint grit in a 1kg tub. The big 20kg sacks are "mixed... -
Brinsea Ovation 28 EX - Evaporation Block Alternative
Hi all, Hope this is the right section to post this. For Christmas, I got a Brinsea Ovation 28 EX. Just finished my first hatch with it with Coturnix quails and got a really good hatch. Going to be setting some duck eggs next. It has this sponge thing in it, called an "evaporation block"...- Kaiju
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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UK - Best duck food?
Hi all, I'm wondering if any UK duck keepers would be happy to share what they feed their ducks/what type of food you've gone for? A lot of advice on here is to go for flock raiser/all flock diets, but those don't seem to exist here. I did try searching the forum for if anyone else asked this...- Kaiju
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Behaviour Q: Duck having a dry "bath"?
Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone had ever seen their ducks do anything similar to this. Firstly, a brief background on "Ducky" (original, I know). Ducky is an almost 12 weeks old Cayuga duck (probably a drake, but I'm always second guessing). They are the only one who hatched from a... -
Hello from the UK!
Hi! I'm Sam :) (Or Kaiju if you rather) I am fairly new to poultry. I started with quails, and have recently moved to keeping my absolute favourite animal - ducks! I do not have chickens (yet... lol!). I currently have a fair few ducklings/young ducks. I have 5 runner ducks, 4 cayuga-mixes...- Kaiju
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- Forum: New Member Introductions