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NPIP certified Ancona duck hatching eggs for sale for $2.50 each plus a flat fee of $12 (for up to 1 dozen eggs) to cover shipping and packing materials. If you want more than 1 dozen eggs, please request a shipping quote. If I have extra eggs, I will include some with your order. Before you...

NPIP certified Ancona duck hatching eggs for sale for $2.50 each plus a flat fee of $12 (for up to 1 dozen eggs) to cover shipping and packing materials. If you want more than 1 dozen eggs, please request a shipping quote. If I have extra eggs, I will include some with your order. Our 2014...

NPIP certified Ancona duck hatching eggs for sale for $2.50 each plus a flat fee of $12 to cover shipping and packing materials. If I have extra eggs, I will include some with your order. I have black, chocolate, and blue ducks and drakes in my flock, so you have a good shot at getting a...

My ducks are kicking my chickens' fluffy butts when it comes to laying. My ducks have a 98% laying average (# eggs I collect per day divided by the # of ducks). The chickens are at 53%. Both groups are young birds in their prime laying years. I should mention that my chickens received...

We butchered our Blue Slate and Bourbon Red toms this weekend. We wanted to let them grow for a couple more months, but they were ganging up on my roo and were going to kill him. It was the first time DH and I had butchered anything and it went pretty well. Not too shabby for a couple of former...

I've been corresponding back and forth with a lady about buying four young female Anconas. I met her today and brought home the birds. They looked fine to me but it was dark and rainy and, to be honest, I was a bit distracted. Now that I've gotten a good look at them, I'm worried they are...

I use the deep litter method with my chicken house and it works perfectly - zero flies, no odor. I don't think that's going to work with my ducks! It is better now that my five Anconas have access to a large run and spend most of their day outdoors, but their house still ends up wet, messy, and...

So I was collecting eggs this afternoon and I noticed a little bug crawling on one of the eggs. It was pretty small and beige-ish in color. I blew it off the egg and didn't think about it much until I came back inside. Could it have been a mite? My birds have access to a dust box filled with...

My 21 week old roo's comb has these black marks on it. Do they look like fight injuries? I noticed them the same day I saw him tusseling with one of my Bourbon Red turkeys. I have also noticed that he tends to wheeze after exertion (ie. chasing hens around and around the run), but I noticed...

I got 4 eggs from my 20 week old pullets today. I was expecting the three brown eggs, but was totally blown away when I found this greenish-bluish egg under my coop. I guess that means my Easter Egger is laying! She has not been showing any signs of readiness. Her comb is tiny and barely...

I went out to do my chores this evening and found one of my 19 week old Gold Laced Wyandottes sitting inside a nest box. She sat in there for a good long time until my overly eager cockerel grabbed her out of the box to have his way with her. The whole time this was going on she was panting a...

My ducklings are about 2 weeks old and while I enjoy having them in my house, the amount of mess they are beginning to generate means that they need to go outside. I can't believe how big they've gotten! I have a securely built duck house and I have a temporary run set up with a tarp...

My husband woke me up this morning with the news that our Easter Egger, Lita Ford, had disappeared. Our chickens put themselves to bed every night and we have an automatic door, so I admit that I haven't been counting heads every night. I'm not sure how long she's been gone. There...

I have 13 Ancona eggs on lockdown in the incubator and I'm so excited! I keep checking for pips; I can tell I'm not going to get a lot done over the next couple of days. I've seen lots of wobbly eggs which is really cool. Watching and waiting....

My chickens are 16 weeks old. They have always been really calm and gotten along fine, but recently they've started squabbling. Our rooster is the main culprit. He will just randomly come up to one of the pullets and peck at her comb. The attacks look brutal, but I haven't seen any bleeding. The...

I named this Easter Egger Lita Ford because I thought she looked like she had big 80s hair. Now I'm wondering if she is actually a he! She is just about 16 weeks old. What do you think?

I want to enter my new duck house in the contest, but I can't figure out how to create an article. I went to https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/2/Coop_Designs but am not seeing an "Add Article" button.

We are on day 14 of our Ancona incubation. We ended up discarding an egg last night after determining that it had a blood ring. Since this is our first time incubating eggs, we wanted to open it up and confirm what we saw when candling. When we went to crack the egg open, it was very hard to...

I have four 5-week old Blue Slate and Bourbon Red poults in a brooder inside my bathroom. I brought them home from the feed store when they were about 1 week old and they almost immediately flew out of the brooder. Hmmm... my chickens never did that. Luckily, I had some bird netting on hand and...

I did something uncharacteristic for me and bought four heritage turkey poults without really planning ahead! They were cute and on sale, so I made an impulse buy. Right now they are happy in their brooder, but I know it won't be long before they need to move outside. Here's the set up I have...