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Hi all, I like to give my girls treats with their breakfast, which has basically meant about a cup of frozen peas warmed up each morning. I go through a 1lb bag of peas in three to four days, as I don't measure out exactly. HOWEVER, the frozen peas are starting to add up, especially when not...

I sell eggs through a local store, so they need to look nice. The same company that puts out those green scrubby pads make ones made out of sisal (hemp-like material) and I buy those and just lightly scrub off my eggs. I use the natural ones because I always feel like the green pads leave a...

Metzer's has both. They are certainly pet quality, but mine arrived as happy, healthy, hungry little ducklings, and grew into happy, healthy, hungry big ducks!

Hi all-- I'm looking to get just about three or four more ducklings...I know there are places that do small orders, but the fees start to get a little ridiculous. (Understandably, but it still works out to like $10 a duckling sometimes!) So I figured that I'd check and see if anyone else in the...

Hi all-- I, like many of you it seems, have very limited choices at any local grain store as far as grain for my ducks go. Basically, it comes down to either a "Duck Grower" (but no "finisher", and it says not to be used past 20 weeks or something) or a chicken "Layer pellet." No game bird, or...

Mine from Metzers is a tiny little girl. I live in MA and she and her siblings got here perfectly fine from CA!

Hmm, duck feeder, I have brown, blue, and black runners....perhaps they just haven't started laying yet? Maybe I do have colored eggs after all!

Quote: Maybe cause you made it up and it's actually "robin's egg blue"?

Quote: Yup, I noted you in my original post.

I've been looking around on websites, and the most colorful egg I've found is "blue-tinged" from a Blue Swedish or something. Are there easily-found ducks out there that lay colored eggs? Even brown eggs? All five of mine lay white. Did I just miss a breed? Thanks!

Quote: I did go with Metzer last year, and was quite happy with them. Twelve perfectly happy and healthy ducklings arrived and grew up into twelve perfectly happy and healthy ducks. 100% sexing accuracy as well, at least with mine. I was hoping to hear of at least a few other places, as I...

I lost my first duck a few days ago too, to a hawk. No blood anywhere, just an explosion of feathers. And then, to add insult to injury, when I went out to tuck them in the hawk was sitting on a fencepost, picking out another victim. It's heartbreaking. And my remaining ducks are terrified to...

I'm looking for sexed ducklings, but I really only want 5 at the most. Could probably make it to 10 splitting an order with a buddy. So who are the hatcheries that sell sexed ducklings, with around a minimum of 10? The minimum is less important than the fact that they're sexed. I know Metzer...

Quote: -sigh- I have seen them. Just wished they sexed them.

Just like the title says....any old run of the mill hatchery will have the Swedes, the Harlequins, the Pekins, the Runners. But where are you guys getting those gorgeous Call ducks, and the different colored runners, and the Appleyards, and so on? Is there an online hatchery that I don't...

I found my first egg this morning! (It is big and white and perfect and beautiful and I'm so so so excited! lol) I think it was my big Pekin who laid it, as it doesn't even seem possible that an egg this size could come out of a Runner or my WH. (It's larger than a jumbo store-bought chicken...

Dare I even ask about shipping costs? I'm across the country from you, but what's the starting price point? (Box, etc.)

No one?

I am landscaping around my duck enclosure, and while I know that they will scarf down just about anything they can get their little beaks on--are there any plants that ducks just absolutely must not have? Thanks!

It doesn't matter whether you live in the city or in the country...that dog owner is responsible for everything that dog injures. So take those ducks to the most expensive vet you can find, get them doctored up, and send the owners the bill. They are required to pay for it. Also, should a dog...