-
rescued a duckling, UPDATE WITH PICS on page 6!!
welldone on a awsome job what i do belive u have is a muscovey x i have several of them here and they all have that dark strip i had been told thats how u tell a cross from pure in muscoveys u wont be able to tell its sex untill it starts laying or not because the girls can be just as big as the... -
Anyone still have Broody Ducks?
i do but im in australia so its spring here lovely nice warm weather we have 4 ducks sitting and 3 chickens -
Sebright egg size?
hi yes what u have there is a sebright egg i too have sebrights we have silver coloured ones they are not quiel creamy but not really white ether plus they seem to have a more pointy end i love sebrights they are so very very cute- peachie
- Post #2
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
-
Help stupid duckling
thank u for all your kind words the eggs were under my pekin called angel (she has a angel wing ) we got her fromthe rspca ( animal rescue) i got her with another pekin they were both very skinny bummbles all over there feet they were going to put them down ( in the to hard basket i think ) we... -
Help stupid duckling
thank u so much everbody but the little guy died last night i think he had lots of probs by midnight i expect all of the yoke sac had comeback out thank u so much for your help -
Help stupid duckling
thank u so so much its just so upsetting that these things happen its still alive but sleeping covered in yellow sticky gunk the warmest place i have at the moment is the incubator will that be ok -
Help stupid duckling
i will start at the begining i had a stupid pekin duck that was sitting on eggs slowly one by one the exploded under her when the mucoveys started sitting i put the last 4 under them one exploded one died in the egg one hatched but i found it half out of the egg on the ground dead out side of... -
crows stealing eggs
hi im in australia and im having that issue now 2 big black crows and they keep coming back we did not have a cover over out pen so went out and got some bird netting our girls and guys and free range when ever they like but get locked up at night so the crows started to walk through the door...- peachie
- Post #12
- Forum: Predators and Pests
-
do i have a stupid duck or a broody duck lol
i have a pekin duck that well has gorn a little silly she has stolen a nest of eggs and has started sittting on them today and gets very very upset at anything that goes near them our poor little dog got a very big scare as far as i knew pekins do not go broody is she likely to stay on them or... -
My drake has changed his diet
lol my guys love to eat mice we catch them in a live trap then feed them they go crazy as long as there is no poison around that may have killed the mice i would let them enjoy my big boy even kills rats though he has not worked out how to eat them yet (i take them of him if i find them ) -
please i need some info on a duckling
hi i got my first hatched duckling i thought i was prepared but the mum dose not want it all i have in food wise is pullet grower or layer the little dude hatched 2 dayes early do i crush some pullet grower its 7.15 pm here so no shops are open i can get started tomorrow or can it wait he is... -
why why why :(
you guys are so wonderful thank u for all your kind words i just cant work it out . to red maple i live in australia and i wish it was hot here its frezzing at the moment not snowing but i dont get that here thank god -
why why why :(
thank u so so so much i cant stop crying everytime i walk past the bathroom as thats were he is at the moment i wont let my husband take him out side here is a pic of him about a month ago he was so so sweet i rang a freind and she thinks it could have been mould some thing i could have... -
why why why :(
: my big boy mr just died he was fine yesterday then today very quiet then he just died i cant work out what happened he was the sweetes niceest drake you would ever meet you could walk up at pat him cuddle him so sweet im just so sad he is the first duck i have ever lost -
two muscovey girls sitting on eggs in same nest
thank u everybody for your replys sorry its beenso long well they are still sitting and finaly saw one leave the nest to night so i got my torch out well i saw some red swiggly lines in some so i hope thats a good sign and yes i did think it was very strange that they were sitting they have only... -
two muscovey girls sitting on eggs in same nest
i have 2 girls with their own eggs in a dog kennel they have been sitting for3 days and both are very stubben my question is is this normal for muscoveys to nest so close to each other and how likely are they to stay sitting they dont come out that i know of i take food and water to them i think... -
We Got Our First Egg Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
thank u guys so so so much the egg is white the girl i think it came:yiipchick from is duck duck the pekin we have 3 pekins girls and 2 muscovry girls who are old anought we got another one today so very excited -
We Got Our First Egg Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
im so excited we have our first egg we raised our ducks from 1 week old so we have been waiting for this day for a wile not sure exactly who layed it but ohhhh my god im so excited my freind think im strange to be excited about my girls growing up -
Are you male or female?
hello everybody i am a fair dinkum aussie girl