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Hi - one of my ducks started limping yesterday and inspected foot and nothing. This morning he has what looks like blisters on his webbing and possibly bumblefoot. Have soaked in Epsom salts and sprayed with vetricyn. Haven’t been able to wrap it as my other half is away with work and can’t...

This is Charles and Camilla - hatched on coronation day! I’m hoping they aren’t Charles and Camil - thoughts?? There hasn’t been any chest bumping behaviour yet…

Decided to go for some marsbar chicks for their olive eggs (cross between Cream Legbar (mum) and French Copper Marans (dad). When the first one hatched it had such clear autosexing markings of a female cream legbar, we were pretty confident it was going to be a girl, however, 3 and half weeks...

I have a flock of 14 runner ducks. 9 boys and 5 girls, from 2 lots of hatching. They are 2 years old now. Last year I separated them boys and girls. The boys fought a lot and I lost one due to injuries, as the 2 hatches ganged up on each other. All boys and girls have been living happily...

Hello - today I found a black egg in the duck house! I have 5 runner girls and they have all been laying blue eggs all spring and summer. Only one is still laying, but then we had this random black fairy egg today. Any clues as to why? (We don’t have cayugas or anything like them)

Hi - this is my first full season of duck keeping. Boys (9) and girls (5) are kept separate. The boys had a few hairy months where no one’s toes or ankles were safe but they had started to calm down. Then out of nowhere they are being hormonal boys again. I have 2 who have targeted 1 who now has...

Hi - I hatched some runners this year and now they have all reached maturity, I have separated them as I have 10 boys and 5 girls. I did this a week and a half ago, and a couple of the girls have been quacking a lot since, which encourages the quieter ones to join in. They would stop when the...

Hatched these 5 chicks 9 weeks ago. Sometimes I think they’re all girls, sometimes I think I may have 1 boy, They are all mixed breeds, all out of different coloured eggs, including blue and green. A couple have blue legs. So just wondering what the great chicken keeping public think about...

Hi I hatched some runners earlier this year. One lone male who is now 15 weeks and then I hatched another 9, who are now 10 weeks so we are pretty clear about who are the boys and girls. Ratio is clearly well off :rolleyes: and I have 7 drakes and 3 ducks!! (Damn) Can't bring ourselves to...

I’ve mentioned my little duckling in another thread, but need some specific advice now. This little chap, Bob, is 4.5 weeks old now, has always been smaller and not catching up much and still fluffy. Over the last week his body has got much bigger, like he’s blowing up like a balloon. He’s...

Hi - I posted a few weeks back about my wonky duckling, who had a slightly splayed leg which made her walk with a lean. The hobble we applied fixed the problem, but now it appears to be back and she is struggling to get around. It looks like her left leg is shorter as she can’t seem to get her...

Hi - We had 10 runner ducks hatch at the weekend. One of them, now 4 days old, has always leant a bit to the left when walking and it looks like she may have one leg slightly shorter than the other, we haven't measured, it was just a visual check. Or could it bit a bit of splayed leg? She is...

Hi In the last week I have introduced my four 7 week old chicks into the main run with my 2 older hens. It’s been pretty successful and the older ones have shown them who’s boss but not too aggressively (a little bit of pecking but no massive attacks) One of the older ones has now started to...

Hi First go at hatching and I have 4 chicks! Feather sexed them and they all said female, but now, at nearly five weeks I am having serious doubts. Any help gratefully received :)