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Hey all. Just thought id throw this out there... Last spring I picked up two Swedish ducks from TSC. Or at least they told me they were Blue Swedish. The ducklings looked identical to what Swedish ducklings are supposed to look like, but when they grew up, I got just tad skeptical. They are...

Hey guys my pekin/magpie crosses are about two months old now and are almost fully feathered. I think they came out beautiful. The bottom most picture shows the father (magpie, top right) and mother (pekin, specifically, the hen on the bottom left). Magpies are pretty rare here in the US, and...

Hey guys I've been incubating eggs and churning out ducklings for the last month now. I do a staggered incubation, and swap out any eggs that have died or weren't fertilized about every two weeks. About a week and a half ago my incubator temp shot up and I lost all the eggs but one. It hatched...

Hey guys. Had a hatch the other day. 10 ducklings. 5 were pure bred mallards, 5 pekin x magpie crosses. The magpies hatched great. Strong, lively, having duck like tendencies. The mallards were all SEVERELY undersized or sickly. 2 didnt make it out of their shells. Ive got one mallard left. Im...

So, I candled my first batch of incubating eggs yesterday (day 8 in the incubator) and have a little over 50% fertility out of a total of 40 eggs. I kept the others in there on the off chance that I missed something or they developed late (idk, I'm new at this whole incubating thing). My...

Hello all. I have another question. i've poured through the threads and haven't found an answer so maybe you guys could provide me with some input. I've built a prototype incubator using some plywood and plexiglas (and a little bit of elbow grease). I'm having a problem keeping the heat...

1. I have two female mallards that are laying. both are breeding with their mates on a regular basis, so im assuming the eggs should be fertilized. The one originally popped the eggs out where ever she felt like. i put them all together in a "nest" in the corner of her stall and she eventually...

Hey all, just curious if you would lend me some input as to how to breed my flock AND help me solve an issue of an overly aggressive drake. First of all. I have a mixed flock of 11 ducks. 4 mallards. 2 males, 2 females. already paired up. 2 swedish. 1 male, 1 female. also paired up. 3...

Hey guys. Have another question for you problem solvers... I picked up two juvenile mallards three days ago. One of them has a messed up wing (will post pics tomorrow), thinking its angel wing. The ducks were bought from TSC the first or second week of march. But are pretty much already full...

Hey everyone... i have just a few quick questions that you could hopefully help me with. 1. does anyone experiment with having a mixed flock? i currently have 3 different sets of ducks, all separated by age... group one: year old mallard drake, year old magpie drake. group two: 3...

Hey guys! started a project about a week ago turning a couple of vacant miniature pony stalls into a coop of sorts for my ducks. seems to have worked like a charm. completely predator proof. warm, ventilated. basically took two stalls, knocked out a 3 foot panel in the wall separating them so...

Hey all. Just had a question. Rescued a magpie drake a while back. Absolutely gorgeous duck. About a year old now. Only problem is, I cannot find a female for him anywhere. I do however have a khaki, couple of pekins, mallards, swedish blues... has anyone tried crossing a magpie with any of...

Hey guys i'm trying not to clog up the forum with previously asked questions, but i can't really find a straight answer so i figured i'd ask here... I have two Swedish Blues and two Mallards at a little over a month old. I Just picked up three one-week and a half old pekin chicks to keep company...

Hey all.... i've got many ducks, but as for the ducklings, i have two khakis, two swedish blues, and two mallards. all was fine and dandy until today i realized the one khaki (the runt of the group) was having a hard time walking. her feet are kind of curled up instead of flat, she cant walk...

Hey guys. I have another problem that hopefully you can help me out with... About two weeks ago my girlfriend and i bought twp Swedish Blue ducklings, and then maybe three or four days later, we picked up two more Mallards. The four of them got together great, and have been super pleasant and...

Hey all hope your having a great week.... I was hoping some of the ultra friendly experts out there could help me out with designing and building some type of enclosure for my ducks. I have recently suffered some losses to my all mallard flock due to predation. I now have an adult male mallard...

Hey all, new to the site, looks like a great place though! Unfortunately i do have a problem. ive had 4 Mallards for a little over a year now. two nights ago, a raccoon got into their pen and killed 3 of them. Now ive got one duck left and he's visibly stressed out. Ive heard that ducks can...