So we have ducks and chickens in our pen. To date we have had no eggs from either . One duck is over six months, the other 4 months and the chickens about 5.5 months. However today my wife goes out to the pen to make sure that everyone is ok (it's been cold her recently, in the 30's) and see's...
We hand raised these ducks from ducklings but now need to re-home a few ducks as we have too many. They are 10 weeks old this week and pretty much full grown. Because these ducks were handled since ducklings they are very friendly and will eat treats right out of my hands. Loves people and they...
Well crap. So after going out today and watching this new duck I just got I think that my full grown hen may be a boy I bought this specifically because I was told it was a hen. When we went to pick it up the thing wouldn't make a noise but didn't seem to have any drake feathers, so I brought...
Hi! I have four 7 1/2 week old ducklings. Recently they all got their quacks in and I was able to voice sex three as male and one as female. This was a bummer as we wanted at least two females and one male (we got the four knowing that we may need to sale a few extra drakes). I just didn't...
Finished my duck run yesterday and my ducks spent the whole day in it yesterday and there first night out!
They are in duck heaven. I had been locking them up at night in the little hutch and letting them run out for an hour or two supervised once or twice a day. Now they can free range in the...
I have four 6 week old ducks. 1 rouen 1 cayaga, 1 black swedish and 1 blue/silver swedish mix. Tonight me and the misses picked up our first chickens. We got two 8 week old hens, 1 easter egger and 1 blue andolusoun. They are about 3/4 the size of the ducks. Well we put them in the run with the...
So I got these ducks a week ago, they were supposed to be Blue/Black Swedish. Two look like they are black Swedish and one looks of the blue variety (and looking more so every day). However I have an odd duck out. It looks like one is possibly a Rouen or Mallard?
The top two are the black...