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    Too Many Drakes...Rehoming/Trading/Help!!!

    Hi everyone. I currently have 10 Indian Runners and 4 mallards. I am concerned about my drake to female ratio (11 drakes to 3 females). I am pretty sure the mallards are going to fly away since they were rescued as babies and seem to be their own little squad. However, the runners are a...
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    New Jersey

    Hi everyone. I currently have 10 Indian Runners and 4 mallards. I am concerned about my drake to female ratio (11 drakes to 3 females). I am pretty sure the mallards are going to fly away since they were rescued as babies and seem to be their own little squad. However, the runners are a...
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    Beautiful Blue Indian Runner Drakes

    If anyone is interested in a trade of beautiful Blue Indian Runner Drakes for a female or two, and you are located in the New Jersey/Philadelphia/Delaware area, please let me know. I have a high number of drakes to females and I know the situation is not going to be good for my girls once...
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    Rehoming 3 - 4 Blue Indian Runner Drakes

    If anyone is interested in rehoming beautiful Blue Indian Runner Drakes and you are located in the New Jersey/Philadelphia/Delaware area, please let me know. I have a high number of drakes to females and I know the situation is not going to be good for my girls once adulthood strikes! They are...
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    Extremely and Really Worried About My Drake to Female Ratio - Willing to Trade?!

    Hi everyone. I currently have 10 Indian Runners and 4 mallards. I am concerned about my drake to female ratio (11 drakes to 3 females). I am pretty sure the mallards are going to fly away since they were rescued as babies and seem to be their own little squad. However, the runners are a...
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    Drake Biting Babies

    So it's interesting that you say that. We have had our male separated for the last 3 days. Last night we were putting the ducks back in their run and somehow he commingled with them and seemd to be fine. They all slept together in peace (I know I took a risk!). This morning when I let them out...
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    Drake Biting Babies

    That sounds horrific. I don't think I could do that to my Halfshell! Hopefully it all works out.
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    Drake Biting Babies

    Just wondering if I am on the right track here: My existing brood of ducks consisted of a male Indian Runner, a male Mallard, and a female Indian Runner. Mama had a clutch of 11 babies and all the ducks, males included, got along spectacularly. Then we introduced 2 more ducks, approximately 6...
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    Help or Advice Please - Bully Duckling

    They turned out just fine. After a few days of separation, but still being visible, they worked it out. Now I just have to get my older drake to stop biting them. We've separated the drake from the rest of the flock for now. We'll see what happens.
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    Help or Advice Please - Bully Duckling

    I have two Indian Runner ducklings that hatched 3 days apart. They are currently 7 and 4 days old. The older duckling constantly pecks at her siblings beak and mostly feet. Sometimes she'll go for the wing. I can see that the younger duck is annoyed because she always tries to get away. I have...
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    Weird Question Looking for Quick Responses...

    Great news about your "wrong end" ducklings. I've never had one pip at the wrong end. Did you have to assist? I went to Tractor Supply this morning and got some niacin for both ducks. I figured it can't hurt. If the weaker one has a niacin deficiency, this should help. I allowed both of them...
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    Weird Question Looking for Quick Responses...

    Good news, fridge duck hatched this morning and is doing ok. Very weak, so I gave water with vitamins. Very unstable on her feet, but will keep an eye on her.. Ok, so new question/concern. I introduced the newly hatched duck to the one that hatched already. She is pecking pretty hard at the...
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    Weird Question Looking for Quick Responses...

    Perfect, thank you. When I got home this afternoon, I found that it had finally pipped. Now we need to wait to see when she'll zip. Ducks can be such lazy hatchers, sometimes!
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    Weird Question Looking for Quick Responses...

    My husband is getting antsy and wants to do an emergency hole in the air sac. Part of me says wait and see, the other part agrees with my husband. But, what happens if you make an emergency hole and it hasn't internally pipped yet? I can't tell it it has or not.
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    Weird Question Looking for Quick Responses...

    Long story short: 2 Indian Runner eggs went into the incubator at the same time. One was fresh from outside, another was one we collected earlier and stored in fridge. Today is Day 29. Fresh egg duck pipped yesterday, zipped today and is doing fine. Fridge duck - no pipping yet. We candled (yes...
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    Indian Runner Sitting on Nest - Advice Appreciated!

    My hubby and decided to hatch our own Indian Runner and mallard ducks last year. After a horrible hawk and eagle raid, we were left with one female Indian Runner, 1 Runner drake, and 1 mallard drake. My Indian Runner female has now decided she would like to lay on her nest of 15 eggs. As the...
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    Abundance of Duck Eggs

    Hi everyone, I currently have 3 female runners and 1 male runner as pets. I also have 2 male mallards who also decided to stick around after his other friends "flew the coop". My females are laying approx. 1 egg per day. As you can imagine, I have a ton of them. I have used them for baking, but...
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    OMG, Please Help! Bald Eagle is Stalking our Ducks!!!

    My parents that live in Florida have bird wires that go across their pool to keep the birds out. I wonder if something like that would deter my eagle visitor?
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    OMG, Please Help! Bald Eagle is Stalking our Ducks!!!

    We know the law and don't intend on harming it. The only water source we have near us that won't freeze is the Delaware River.
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    OMG, Please Help! Bald Eagle is Stalking our Ducks!!!

    We had a female mallard killed the other day. My husband saw a bald eagle down the street and thought he might be the culprit. This morning we woke to the eagle on top of our duck pen. We have never had eagles around...ever! Has anyone had this problem and what did you do? Any suggestions would...
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