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    18 day old pigeon lacking head feathers?

    Hello! I'm raising 2 babies right now, and the older one seems to only be sprouting a few feathers on his head while his/her sibling almost has a full head. Is this normal? Could it be a sign of something going wrong? They're growing well, and are very energetic, this is pretty much the only...
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    Brooder temp for baby pigeons?

    Hi, I'm preparing to handraise 2 pigeons, and the last piece of information that I haven't been able to verify through multiple sources is a brooder temp chart for babies 5 days + The chicks will be 5 and 6 days old in two days, which is when I'm planning on starting the handfeeding. I'm...
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    Transporting ducklings over a long distance

    Hello, I was wondering if any of you have some tips. I ordered a few muscovy ducklings from a man that lives around a 8-9h drive away. I've driven this distance with very young ducklings before, and it went okay but honestly I was mostly stressing through the entire drive... What I did last...
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    Zebra finch identification

    Hello! I just got this beautiful boy today along with 3 others. Aside from pied, what mutation do you guys think he has? My first guess was fawn isabel, but then why is there no cheek marking? TIA!
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    Less pricessed duck feed

    Hi! I would really like to switch my ducks to a feed that's not as processed as the pellets are. Would it make sense financially to buy bulk grains and mix myself, or is there a feed available that has more whole grains which I could add onto to make it fitting for the ducks? TIA!
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    What breed are those geese?

    Where I live, this is literally the only domestic breed of geese I ever see. Still not sure what they are though. Are those pilgrim geese? I only ever see those with much less white on the females, so I'm not sure. Planning on raising some geese with my next batch of goslings, so I'd want to...
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    Ducklings and goslings (brooder ideas)

    Hi! I have 12 beautiful eggs from my girls waiting to be incubated, and I REALLY want to include a goose or two in the batch this year. Does anyone have some good mess-free (to an extend) brooder ideas? The biggest clutch I've had was 6, so while 14 will be the maximum (I might bring some to my...
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    When will the ducks start laying?

    So, this is the first time I'm having ducklings. They're exactly 1 month and 25 days old now, and I was wondering when you guys would estimate they could start laying eggs. Do you think there's any chance we'll get eggs from them before winter? All except one duckling are domestics (the other...
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    New duck! Any ideas on what breed/s she is?

    Just traded one of my drakes for this beautiful girl. She's this beautiful silver colour which I haven't seen anywhere else before, I was wondering if any of you have any clue what breed/mix of breeds she could be?
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    Duck pond size and ideas

    Hi! So, I'm doing some projects outdoors right now; a new big coop, fence etc. I'll have some extra concrete leftover and want to make a small pond for the ducks to swim in. Now, my question is how big would you guys say it should be for a maximum of 12 ducks? I don't have a huge space, but...
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    The birds at the old hospital 🦆🏥

    Our home is locally known as just "gamli spítali" or "the old hospital". I guess it might seem a little morbid, but it's just a tiny, small town hospital where most deaths happened of natural causes, and many children were born. So as to keep up the legacy, what's better than having it be a...
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    Some tragedy in the flock

    So, I know I've made some mistakes, but man nothing prepared me for just how unpredictable cats can be, and how dumb some ducks can be... no offense to my ducks. We started with adding 6 ducklings this spring, now we are down to 3. First week outside in the run (fully feathered at that point)...
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    Melanistic grey leg goose??

    Hey, so people on a bird watching fb group I'm part of have been losing their collective shit over this goose. Have any of you seen a grey leg goose like this? I've seen some pied ones, some that crossed with domestic ones, but never this. Theres allegedly 2 of them in the area, but im not 100%...
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    Phino or both cfw and fawn visual?

    Hi! Some friends and I resqued this abandoned finch a while back, and right away I noticed he didn't look like other cfw finches I've seen. His orange spots are very pale, to the point that when he was sick he looked almost completely white, and his black markings are a light brown. Has anyone...
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    Adding 1 or 2 geese to a small duck flock?

    Hi! I've just recently hatched 6 beautiful ducklings from my 4 backyard ducks, and I've been thinking about adding either 1 or 2 geese to the flock for a long time now. Geese are the birds that got me into this whole backyard poultry hobby in the first place. I've fallen in love with them when...
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    Duck with no webbing on feet???

    Someone on a fb group I'm in posted this picture. What do you guys think?
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    Duck coops!

    There's a whole section here for chickens coops, but I was wondering what everyone's duck coops look like, why they chose the construction they did, and how many ducks they house. 🦆 Would be really cool to just add onto the thread to show off our hard work! (Also really nice getting some...
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    Ducks laying eggs in the middle of icelandic winter???

    Hi! So, two of my three females started laying eggs regularly just recently, and I'm not so sure about how healthy that really is for them during a time when foraging is basically impossible. I'm a little worried about my larger female who I think was the one who ate her last egg and seems just...
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    Mixing breeds, what to expect?

    Hi! I was wondering if any of you have tried mixing up breeds like magpie ducks with larger mallards or something similar to that. I currently have one wild mallard female, a mallard derived mix male (he's quite large, but I have no clue what breed he exactly is), a magpie male and female, and...
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    Head gesture which im not sure what it means

    Hi! So okay maybe it's something common, but I honestly don't know since I am still a bit new to duck keeping. I've noticed a while back that my little mallard, Kimmy, who has some minor brain damage from an injury she got as a chick, does this sideways almost reaching motion or something? She...
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