I pull the eggs when they first started to crack and had a bin step up in our kitchen with a heat lap and damp towels. We don't have incubator, I would have too many ducks and chickens then.
I will try to get new pics this week-end.
I have a Pekin female and a Rouen male and here's what I got.
It's an old pic. One looks like a Rouen female and the other is black and white. They were a few months old then.
You can get a outdoor dog water bowl that has a heating unit undernieth it. I used one last year and only on the coldest days did it freeze over a little.
I live in Wisconsin, I have had my ducks for 3 years now. All you need is a water bowl that you are able to put a heater in, or underneither. Make sure the bowl is deep enough for them to dip their whole beak in. They will need an area they can go to get away from the wind, maybe some staw on...
My drake and duck just molted their flight feathers. They grow new ones for the winter. It's looks like something went after them, but I know nothing did. They did it this time last year.
My peking has one or two large bumps on her foot. They are not bleeding. None of our vets in the area are waterfowl trained.
How do you treat bumble foot at home?
Lately we had baby doves and robins hurt in our yard (beyond repair). This morning our neighbors were coming over to learn how to take care of our ducks while we are on vacation. We spot this bird down in the ditch. Never seen one like before, It's wings were out and it's feet were behind him. I...
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There is nothing wrong with Sponge Bob.
They will want to come in and watch all the time now.
There is something wrong with chicken poop on my couch though!!
Just get some plastic couch covers. Then take stoke out in paper towels.
Wow you make me jealous. I've been fishing a lot this year, however the fishing gods are not on my side.
I will be going to the Outer Banks, NC in a few weeks to do some surf fishing. Hopefully I will catch something.
Any body know of a good sacrifice the fish gods would like?
Let's try this.
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Here are the offspring.
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