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That's a maybe. Problem is, you don't know that the pekin ISN'T chocolate, because she could be. But white hides everything. If she isn't chocolate, then yes. But no one to know for sure until you do the first breeding.

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It's breeding season :) Hormones are running high and making the geese more aggressive. It'll subside after the season ends. Until then, there's not much to do except to not let them push you around.

Waterfowl can often carry MG without showing any symptoms - sometimes the only thing that they show is a drop of fertility. You can always test the ducklings if you want to spend the money - there's a lab called Zoologix that will test samples you send them.

Thanks! I'd say about or just under six feet tall in the middle. I can walk in without bumping my head and have some clearance, and I'm 5'8".

Only just saw this - how's it doing? I've had a few hatch with partially open navels like that and they've just closed and scabbed on their own within a couple days.

I agree, looks like it hit a blood vessel when it was trying to pip. Just unlucky :(

They can! Some eggs never wiggle and then go on to hatch. Generally, if they don't smell and aren't leaking stuff, I leave them in until day 60 and see what happens.

Generally speaking, a lot of black bibbed and pied ducklings. Some would be blue bibbed and pied, from the blue swedish.

Hi! Has your BEI always had that white bib, or has it come in with age? A BEI is usually solid black, so I assume it came in with age. What you would get from the first gen cross, barring unexpected recessive genes, is all black bibbed pied ducklings. They would only have one copy of extended...

A cute list of of ideas of Easter activities that involve your flock.

This looks very similar to my first incubator - I also made one from a styrofoam cooler. Only thing I would change is it doesn't look like you have anything controlling the temperature, which could be a problem if it gets too hot and the temp spikes and there's nothing to control that. If you...

The description is nice, but the article needs pictures of the coop.

Looks like a nice coop for a few chickens. The conversion of the swingset was neat to see. I would swap out that chicken wire for hardware cloth, or else you could have issues with predators.

Just the two so far. Nix, the blonde, is staying. The other one already has a home lined up, just waiting for the next hatch (in three days hopefully) so he has a girlfriend to go with.

Crested is a lethal gene - if both parents are crested, 25% of the ducklings will die in the shell. The crest is caused by a hole in the skull. The blood vessels that feed the crest run directly through the hole from from the brain to the crest, so the crest is directly attached to the brain...

Yes, I would make a safety hole in the shell, and then proceed through an assisted hatch as necessary: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

My babies are a week old today - which means they're just starting to really be interested in food and water.

Hmm...usually ducks aren't super tricky. Is she hatching the eggs herself and having better hatch rates? They're not crested or anything, right? I sometimes do misting and cooling for my duck eggs, especially trickier breeds like Calls, but usually find they don't need that and I just do them...

What kind of ducks? Some are harder than others.