We have 8 khaki Campbells (4 drakes, (yes, we need to cull some drakes) and 4 females) and two mixed breed ducks that I hatched for fun (A drake and a duck). They don’t lay very much for a family of 6 people (about to be a family of 11 people, all of which will be wanting to eat duck eggs every...
Hello! I’ve been trying to convince my mom to let me get a new breed of duck to spice up our flock. We have a big family and it’s getting bigger, so naturally, we use a lot of eggs. My mom wants good layers! I came across an Instagram post today that said runner ducks lay 300+ eggs per year, so...
Hello! I just want to let you all know that the goose, Cane, is doing great. She does not have any disease like you all thought she did. she's just blind. if I didn't take her in she never would've made it. She's very happy. Not suffering. I've not had the slightest problem with her. I don't...
The duckling started to hatch late last night at about 10:30. It’s been 26 hours and he hasn’t made anymore progress or even changed positions. He is still alive. Should I help him out? He looks like he might be stuck. He was cracked REALLY bad early in the incubation by my goose (tip: don’t let...
I’ve read up on it, and from what I’ve read, it says if the goose had a disease it would have inflammation, redness, swelling, or crust in the eyes. The goose’s eyes look completely normal to me. I do plan on getting a license when I am old enough. I know it is Illegal to take in some animals...
Hey, so I recently had a friend bring a abandoned baby Canadian goose for me to keep. I put it with two Chinese geese that were about his age. It didn’t take me long to figure out that he was blind, since he was running into walls and was having a hard time finding things that were right in...
Hi, so… I started out with five duck eggs, they have been slowly dying off and now I’m down to one. It’s day 26 today. Yesterday I candled him at around 9:30 am and he had internally pipped. At around 11:30 this morning he still has not pipped. So I made a safety hole. He was still moving at the...
Hi! I started out with five duck eggs in the incubator, and they have been slowly dying off. I now have one live egg in the incubator. It’s day 26. He internally pipped yesterday around 8-9:30. It’s almost 11:00 But he still hasn’t externally pipped. I’ve read they externally pip 12-24 hours...
The mallards are about eight months old. They have not laid any eggs yet, since they only lay in the spring and summer months. But what you said makes sense, I hope that’s why the drakes aren’t very interested in them at the moment.
Hello! In spring of 2020 I hatched out some khaki campbell ducks, three drakes, and four ducks. And a little later, a wild mallard had made a nest at my dads work. The mallard ended up abandoning the nest, so my dad brought home the eggs for me to incubate. I now have two female semi-wild...