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When my hens start laying in the spring I put a few golf balls in their nests to encourage them to continue laying in that particular nest because I will collect the eggs. Four of them went broody with two having recently hatched their eggs, but I discovered that the other two don't have any...

I have one hen who is not sitting on a nest and for quite some time I haven't been able to find where she's laying. Well, the past two days my daughters saw a couple of eggs up by the house. I suspected our 3-month-old German wirehaired puppy was stealing them, so this morning when I let her out...

Our mallard hen hatched 19 babies last month, but these four were hatched in the incubator and we're very attached to them. I did a lot searching for photos of this cross on the internet, but couldn't find any so this is for anyone else who is curious. I was really surprised by the black ones!

I have a pekin egg that pipped over 48 hrs. ago that has made virtually no progress. Its bill is protruding through a small hole, but there are no other cracks on the shell. Its bill opens and closes so I know it's still alive, but I'm afraid it's stuck because it's not making any attempt to...

My daughter brought a library book home the other day and it was about the care and keeping of ducks. Of course, I started reading it and there was a breeding section that said ducks of different species that mate will produce offspring that are sterile. Having experience with horses I know that...

-I wasn't too successful with my first incubator experience. Only four out of ten hatched. -Mallard hen, however, hatched 19 out of 21 eggs. -Got very attached to the four I "birthed" myself. We plan to keep them. -Sold mallard's babies this past weekend, they were a week old. Very traumatic...

Our mallard has just hatched some eggs (not sure of the total count yet, 9 for sure) and she laid them in a large wooden box that was used as a duckling house last year. My question is whether or not I need to put a fence around it to keep her and the ducklings contained or if it's safe to let...

I've got four hatched with one more taking its sweet time. Two are mallard/pekin cross and two are rouen/pekin cross. This was my first hatching venture and am just too giddy over the whole experience! These are all of #1 hatching:

I posted this in the duck forum, but got no responses so I thought I'd try here. Yesterday some of my duck eggs started to pip. This morning I found a pool of yolk under one of them. I quickly got the egg out, but am wondering if it's safe to leave the yolk in there. I'm concerned about...

Yesterday some of my eggs started to pip. This morning I found a pool of yolk under one of them. I quickly got the egg out, but am wondering if it's safe to leave the yolk in there. I'm thinking bacteria or whatnot when the others hatch. I don't want to open the bator anymore at this stage, but...

I currently have five ducks (two pekins [one is a drake], two rouens, one mallard). We decided we wanted a few more when spring came, but instead of buying them I thought it would be fun to hatch them ourselves. I borrowed an incubator from our neighbor who used to raise chickens and put 10 eggs...

Tomorrow will be exactly a week since my Pekin hen was attacked by a dog. We've been nursing her in our laundry room where she stays in a large box and we give her daily "tub therapy". Anyway, I've noticed she's losing a lot of feathers. Is she molting because of being in the warm house? We're...

Add what you love about your ducks to the list! 1. duck faces are the cutest faces of any bird 2. their waddle 3. the way they cock their heads to look at objects in the sky 4. their ability to plop themselves in the smallest container of water 5. the way they scour the yard for goodies during...

I have too many drakes in my small flock and these two need to go. They're about 5 months old, free ranged, and their wings are not clipped. I have them listed on Craigslist (with a pic) in the Jackson area, but we are only a few miles from both the IN and OH borders. If interested, pm or email me!

I was watching the ducks tonight and our Pekin drake was really going after one of the mallard drakes in a way I've never seen before. I probably shouldn't have, but I tried to intervene and get his attention off the poor thing. When he finally did stop I noticed the other duck was limping. It...

Goofy goat...

We've had two new rouen hens for a couple of days now, but are stumped on what to name them. I'm a little strange in that I like our animals to be named after themes. The ducks, for example, have water related names. So far we have Splish, Splash, Puddle, Paddle (and Drip and Drop, but they are...

We were given a couple of lovely matching planters that we have put at the end of our driveway. Our goat roams our property most of the time and I am wondering if there is any kind of plant I can put in these planters that he won't eat. The only thing we've planted in our yard that he doesn't...

We've got six ducks (2 pekins, 4 mallards) and we have four drakes and two hens. I had planned on trading two of the drakes for two hens with someone my husband works with, but now he has changed his mind saying he has too many ducks but will still give us two hens. I've considered listing the...

My pekin hen, Splash, layed her first egg this morning! Strangely she laid it in their old house we used for them when they were ducklings. They haven't used it in a long time. In fact, it's not weatherproof anymore and it rained all night, but she still lay it in there on the hard floor with...