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Yep...if its typical duck... Diseases are not born in a bird, they are accuired at some point during its life. A diseased egg simply won;t hatch. Its usually from exposure to some form of bacteria that takes over the yoke and kills the embryo before it even starts to grow. It gets dark...

So raising a bird and working with the breeding to get a nice, well marked and descript bird isn't much fun? Why don't you try asking in the "meat bird" section and you;ll likely find more people that are rasing their birds for slaughter. Most folks in here are keeping their ducks as pets or...

go for it...a diseased egg simply goes bad inside, not outside. Worst case it does nothing....set it and candle every couple days to see if there is any change. Should see some veins in a week. Our pond ducks (pekins & rouens) lay eggs in nest all over the place. The pekins don;t even bother...

Getting older ducks to learn to "like" you is a challenge. They are running on thousands if not millions of yrs of instinct and their instinct for survival says RUN if its bigger, smaller, a different color or smells different than a duck. The only way around this is to hand raise them from...

I think the whole B complex vitamin group is not stored in the body so it has to be constantly replaced. Once low or deficient its even harder to get back to normal level;s. I found some liquid B complex with niacin and some other related vits in liquid form as a sublingual dose for humans...I...

Yeah thats cool but lets see you get another one and form a chorus line ! Very cute video....

No, they are not confused...just broody. They are trying to attract a mate by flattening and giving the signal to "come & get it".... Some call that behavior surfing... Duck wants to Surf.....ok, tell 'em to get a room. My little mallard hen will do this because she is mateless and has her...

I doubt that a day will make any difference either way. Remember, a lot of what yopu read is opinion. If you think about it, in the wild the temp is not perfectly regulated, neither is the humidity and the hen does not sit for the entire 28 days and some eggs do not wait 28 to hatch...when they...

This winter sure has everyone confused..we're just not getting the jet stream to bring us any of the coldest storms that are still in the far north...we had more freezing temps in Nov than we have had since Thanksgiving.. Its got the ducks all messed up as well..they think its spring...some...

For ducklings.....get an old bleach bottle, wash out well, and cut a hole in the side just big enough to stick their head thru. Each week you need a new bottle because the duck grows and the hole placement changes...until they are bigger and then you use a tupperware bowl placed inside...

If the duckling is deficient in some nutrients, the hollistic approach works for ducks better than it does for humans. Feed them more fresh food...chopped greens, whatever fruits they seem to like. Search out a safe foods list for ducks. Ducklings are no different than ducks as far as what they...

yes, its possible. All the books say to give it a few more days as long as the signs of a dead egg are not there yet. It can go either way. My feeling is that if you see that mist like substance than it probably not going to grow and that is bacteria thats starting to grow instead of viens...

Its cruel as well. I just can;t take that...and when/if I see it, theres gonna be trouble. I almost whipped a guys ***** at a farm store for grabbing ducks by the WING. he's inside the pen trying to catch one for somebody and gets his hands on one thats resisting and he grabs it by the wing...

I can;t help with the chicken eggs, but I can tell you a little about ducks... Humidity is extremely important to the hatch process. if too low for too long the membrane inside the egg is like leather and the duckling cannot break thru it. The conditions during the 28 day wait are very...

I love that...Shes relaxed and able to live without pain for possibly the first time in months. Thank you for that. I only wish that someone had taken a few minutes to splint that leg and get it straight. I pray that its still not "loosely" broken now...I just can't stand to see suffering on...

Simple answer....you dont have ANY drakes..... There is no mix-matching as far as the basic traits of Rouen and anything else... Drakes having been bred of Mallard decent, will have green heads and various shades of grey/brown/blue/white/black and some have a neck ring while some do not. A...

YES ! separate them immediately. Your drake is going thru his breeding urge and that will over-ride any training or friendships or fear that he may have. He'll attempt to mate with chickens, 2x4s, goats or whatever he can climb on. This will pass in a few days but until then he has to be...

besides having my hands full with my 2 big ducks that are positive that they are family and should have a house key...there is the flying beast aka Chicky....who never fails to surprise me,. yesterdays threat that got her into her pen failed to get her attention today...she flew out defiantly 4...

Nothing better than new ducks !

So the winter up there is a little less than the typical winter? Here as well... Down here in Texass, as a child I recall this time of year being 25-30 degrees and often wet. It was like that fr om early Dec to Feb or March. Today it was 80. Got highs around 70 to 80 all week. Trees are as...