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    sick(poisoned?) duckling needs help

    So, the other day when I let the duck gang of 16 out to gambol in the yard while I did my gardening, I noticed most of the ducks snacking on my rhubarb plant. Ugh, they were eating the leaves, which are loaded with oxalic acid which is pretty darn toxic. I shooed them away and put a chicken...
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    Ducklings growing exponentially!

    My duck, Matilda, hatched 8 eggs back on July 10th. The drake is a Pekin and the various contributing moms are Pekin, Silver Appleyard and Welsh Harlequin. So now they are FOUR weeks old and they aren't little anymore. Three are definitely pure Pekin, and the other 5 are.... Appleyard? They are...
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    Lots o ducklings

    Hello Backyard crew, just wanted to let you know that I took your good advice regarding NOT letting 2-3 girl ducks set the same nest (Woes of a Communal Nest thread). After that disaster (3 girl on 11 eggs and they only hatched out one duckling) I put together another clutch in a big dog crate...
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    Communal duck nest woes

    So I think I posted this story a bit yesterday on the new members forum. I have 7 ducks. Two 2-year-old Harlequin ducks, Snow White and Golden Girl, and their one - year-old daughter, Whistle-Peep (only hatchling from their communal nest of 12 eggs in May 2022.) Last May I (of course!) acquired...
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    chickens, turkeys & ducks, oh my

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