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A duck nesting at my work died and we found her 6 babies wandering around so I took them in. They hatched about a week ago. They're wild mallards but I've had them since they were a day old so they won't be able to be released. I've been hand feeding them and giving them lots of attention so...

Hey all, I hatched a dozen eggs from my rooster and his favorite hen a few weeks ago. Someone unplugged the heat lamp & only one cockerel survived. I plan on setting more soon because I'm loving the way this funky little guy is growing out. They all came out looking the same chipmunk with stripy...

I have three mixed roosters available. Two are Dominique roo/Ameraucana hen, and the other is Dominique roo/Barred Rock hen. They'll be a year old mid-June. All three are hand raised, very sweet, very docile. Perfect for a backyard flock. $10/ea. The first three pictures are from today, the...

If you aren't familiar with this experiment, I recommend doing some research on it. Next week, I am going to try to grow some chicks and ducklings outside of their shells with an at-home setup. This is going to be my first attempt, and I will continue trying and adapting my recipe until I'm...

I have a mixed drake named Gorbie. He's 3/4 Pekin, 1/4 Cayuga, and he's also got some Blue Swedish in him. Here he is: I've been trying to figure out his coloring, but I'm a little lost. I can't find another duck like him. So far, I've got: M^R/(?) li^h/li^h e+/e+ bl+/bl+ C+/c B+/B+...

I haven't really found anyone who can answer this for me. Is M^R+ a separate coloring gene in and of itself, or is ^R a dilution/restriction on M+? I guess "dilution gene" isn't the right term, since it doesn't really dilute, it just restricts the amount of black in the typical M+ coat. For the...

I live right next to a small pond which leads into miles of wetlands. I free range my ducks, and they like hang out down at the pond and sometimes into the wetlands during the warm seasons. They come home as soon as it gets dark, they come when I call them, there haven't been any issues yet...

Has anyone worked with Common Eiders before? I've heard of cases where they're rescued & aren't able to rehabilitate, so they're kept as pets. Has anyone seen them raised or bred in a domestic environment? I know that they're wild, I'm just speculating about them & they've piqued my interest as...

I bartered for this roo a few weeks back. He's beautiful, and he's quite literally the biggest rooster I've ever seen, and I've very excited to hatch some of his chicks out. I'm told he's the product of a bunch of different breeds in the same enclosure, and that they think his mother is a Polish...

Hello! I'm gonna get right to the point with this. I'm moving to Iceland in a little over a year and a half. I grew up on a farm in Massachusetts, and I'm planning out the logistics of my Icelandic dream farm. I want to import a few breeding pairs of rabbits, as I've spent the past few years...

I'm completely familiar with the genetics behind the Pekin masking gene and how it hides the true coat that the duck carries, but I have a few questions on the inheritance patterns of some other coats. When I first got ducks, I started out with a Cayuga/Blue Swedish mix and her brother and...

Show off your hybrid/crossbreed ducks here! Post some pictures, and if you want, a description. Just state what breeds went into the mix & how much blood of each they have. Ex.: This is Gorbbie! She's a month old & she's 3/4 Pekin, 1/8 Cayuga, and 1/8 Blue Swedish. This is Trotsky...

I'm contemplating getting rid of my roo and I was wondering if he meets the SOP. I'm just seeing if he's high quality enough to sell as a breeder. Unless I keep him. The only issue is that he's an a**hole and kills any other cock that I put him in with (and I have 12 hens...) I got some cool...

I've got a litter of 15 little mutts from my chickens this year. My cock is a beautiful (and HUGE!) Dominique, so I figured that all of the chicks would just be barred. Some are black barred, some are blue barred, and the two BO chicks are just strange. They're only two weeks old and haven't...

There's clearly something in her throat, but she won't drink or eat. I put some water down her throat, I've massaged her, and I've tried to get her to clear her throat, but she won't. I took her to the vet ER and they said to take her to a bird specialist. The closest one is an hour away. It's...

I've had my incubator for almost two years. I used it just recently to hatch some chicks and ducklings, the last of which hatching just last week. I ordered some expensive svart höna eggs that came today (so excited!). I turned on my incubator for a test run, and it keeps flashing on and off...

I know that it's late in season, but does anyone have birds still laying? I'm in Northern MA looking for fertile hatching eggs.

Last week and owl broke into my bird pen and killed two of my chickens. I moved into them into a separate, safer coop, but it came back again last night. There's a predator net over the paddock. all of the chickens are elsewhere, none are harmed, but the owl is trapped. It did this last time and...

Anyone with hybridization knowledge, or anyone who breeds/has bred Mules, feel free to chime in. I'm piecing together whether or not starting a project in the future is worth it and any help is appreciated. Basically, I was thinking that I could breed a huge batch of mules using a Pekin drake...

Currently, I have an AC roo in with my pet chickens (just a tiny flock of off-colors, hybrids, and my misc. girls). I've seen several threads where people get sex-linked chicks out of an AC Roo x other cross, so is that a possibility here? I'm not unfamiliar with breeding sex-linked genes in...