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I have a yard with a 1.5 acre pond. Once my ducks found the pound, they wouldn't come back to the run. They are permanently free range now. We have to keep them from the road with the "umbrella of doom" :D One drake did get run over. :( We have had predation--raccoons at night and coyotes...

Truly, I have played with how many ducks to drakes and the ratio REALLY REALLY needs to be 1 drake to 4-5 or more ducks. At one point we had 6 drakes to about 15 ducks and that was NOT enough. We had to cull a bunch of drakes to keep the ducks from getting killed. They had also set their...

It's a good thing ducklings are cute because they can muck up a brooder in 37 seconds flat . This design might have been discovered by others already, I don't get to the forums as often as I should, but this is what I have found that really honestly keeps a brooder almost completely muck free...

I was thinking about starting a breeding program.

These are from a clutch of 21 eggs I found out of my ducks (appleyard, cayuga, runner,saxony, "white layer"). 8 hatched. 4 look like swedish (not sure why, I have no swedish) BUT 4 look quite different and very pretty, especially the drakes. They have dark chocolate heads, brown laced...

I have eight GORGEOUS (I will try to post a pic--they have laced feathers and come in slate grey and a brown grey). mutt ducks that were hatched out of a runner boy and a white layer (we think. I found a nest of 21 eggs, 8 incubated and hatched). They are about 3 months old. This morning they...

Thanks all. The factions started before the hens were broody. I think it was too many drakes at the time who divided the flock. I got rid of all but three drakes. I don't want to go too much lower as we have had a predator problem and I want to make sure at least one drake makes it. We will...

Hello All...any advice welcome. Sorry this is long--much like international politics, this is complicated. Last spring we bought a group of ducklings. We were too male-heavy, so we bought a second group of all female ducklings a couple months later. We also got rid of three males. We lost...

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So your anconas have green eggs? I don't have that breed, do you know which of these breeds that I have might be laying them: saxony, runner (though i think she is laying the light blue eggs), silver appleyard, cayuga (though i don't think so as her eggs were white with a dark bloom, and these...

Thank you!! I thought it was gorgeous. And a bit of surprise :) I have five eggs in the incubator right now, praying for 4 hens and 1 drake ;) I noticed the cayugas lightened up quickly. These seem to be holding steady so far. I am not sure of the 4 breeds I have which one this is. I do...

Thank you! Interestingly, our flock has split in two since three of the drakes were removed! They don't bicker between or within groups, and things are much more quiet, but one flock has two drakes, one has three (we had a big flock). There is a lot less mating going on. The flock is not as...

I have a few different breeds. One of the ladies (not sure who, may be more than one) lays pale blue tinted eggs (which is pretty, but also pretty common). However, I also have someone who is laying more green (though not quite olive) colored eggs. Even when the bloom is rubbed off, you still...

A) It's ok not to have ducks as your favorite :) They do come with their own issues (just like any pet) and it is up to you to know what you don't mind and what is more of a pain for you. For example, I have three cats because they are easy for me. But I only have one dog because more than...

We had a flock of 25. We were on the lookout for signs of "too many drakes" and found that the Saxony drakes were ganging up (if one mated, the rest ran over.) and were overmating one particular saxony duck. So we got rid of the drakes last thursday and suddenly we are getting a lot more eggs...

Maybe use a long pair of tongs to reach in and grab the eggs, like long grill tongs. Or a small rake.

Good idea with the scratch--they do love their scratch. We have converted what was going to be the duck run to a Naked Neck turkey run (my breed--TWS raises black tailed whites). If we find we need to, we can build a fenced in area. What I really want is to fence in the pond anyway...