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Located in Long Island, NY. Coturnix quail chicks, a few days old. $5 each. Thanks for looking!

Just hatched a batch of ducklings—wild type and black and white pied, poss het for lavender or blue. $20 each. Straight run. $25 sexed but must take m/f pairs

Hey all, thought you might appreciate the list I put together of edible temperate climate plants. I was/am VERY bored during lockdown so compiled 200+, most from my own food forest. It’s a spreadsheet sortable by zone, shade tolerance, name, etc...

Two broody muscovies are sitting on one nest that are due to hatch any day. I walked into the coop this morning to collect eggs from the non-broodies and saw what looked like a crushed egg in the furthest corner from their nests. It had a duckling inside, already cold, wasn't moving. Thought it...

In the past I've been having horrible, horrible luck with hatching muscovy eggs artificially in the incubator (yet having had no issues with chickens and quail--god, they're so easy). 37.6 degrees C, dry incubation (humidity fluctuates between 35% and 75% where I am), lockdown day 26 (they start...

I'm currently getting really frustrated with my muscovy eggs. I have a small backyard flock of them but every clutch (4 so far) I've tried to artificially incubated has only had one or two ducklings (out of 4 - 5 eggs) survive the hatch. The rest, if they aren't duds, will pip and then quit...

This was a clutch of 6, two were duds and never developed so I had 4 make it to the end so far. While I was out of the house, 1 pipped but died in shell without absorbing the yolk. 1 hatched today and has been put in the brooder already. Two have not internally pipped but one of them has what...

This might be a silly question but I want to get into keeping quail this year and I was wondering if I could order hatching eggs right now? I'm in NY--temps go below freezing at night. Or should I wait until night temps are above freezing to order eggs?

I had an abysmal hatch rate (1 out of 4 eggs) for my muscovies last time (humidity was too high) so I've been extra vigilant this time around. One of the eggs out of the four (again, on day 31 like last time, which is weird) didn't show internal pipping in the air sac nor any movement (the other...

One of my 4 (viable) muscovy eggs pipped internally today (day 31--I went back to doublecheck my calendar because I thought it was too soon) but the other 3 are not near that phase yet--there's still albumen visible in their eggs when I candle. I was going to lockdown tomorrow but now I don't...

Can deliver on anywhere Long Island, NY. I don't have the time (or patience) to process them myself so if anyone needs to either get a male to breed, or to eat, let me know.

One of my muscovy hens, (about 2 years old) has been sort of fluffed up for the past week. Probably about half the time her feathers are puffed up around her body instead of sleek and tight the way the other ducks are. She otherwise eats fine, walks around, forages, drinks, lay eggs, etc but the...

I just planted a group of 5 this year in my edible backyard forest but thought you guys here at BYC will like this plant--it's a super cold and drought tolerant edible legume that is also... a tree and perennial. I hear it's bland as far as the peapods go (but, quite honestly, we're so used to...

I was curious about what everyone's opinion of using fresh duck eggs raw. I know the chicken eggs we get in the supermarket are usually pasteurized, so I have no problem using them raw (mixed with hot rice and soy sauce and furikake is one of my older daughter's favorite comfort meals, or as the...

Had a trio, was told it was two females and a male, turns out it was two males and a female when they came, but one of the males looked like a female because he was so young and some of his caruncling was still partially feathered. Realized he was a male after he tried to put the moves on the...

Someone gave me a trio of adult white muscovies yesterday (and holy hell, they're HUGE--I had pied muscovies before and they were not nearly this large)--he said it's a male and two females but one of the females ACTS like a male to me. They're all just under a year old from the same clutch...

Looking for 3 muscovy ducklings--preferably one male and two females. Can pick up anywhere on LI, NY.

I see a lot of prefab chicken coops with runs that don't look like the actual housing structure has doors to lock them in at night. Is it somewhere I can't see? Or is there just no doors and they go into the run when they want in the morning and go into the house at night to sleep when they...

This morning I was rummaging through the nest boxes (I haven't done this in a while since I assumed they stopped laying) in the coop and came across eight eggs, four small white ones and four large tan/cream ones. I have three bantam chickens sharing the coop with the muscovy ducks so I assumed...

With all the crazy weather we're having, one of my muscovy ducks (I have a male and three females) started laying eggs, even though they only get a maximum of 6 hours of light a day when I let them out of the coop at around 9 in the morning and get them back around 4 in the afternoon when the...