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Thank you for your input. I'm thinking these are Cockerals but I want to make sure. They will be free to good home. I'm in Victoria Australia.

It seems everytime I go talk to the chickens and look around, I've been finding 2 or 3 eggs each time. We started hatching chicken eggs on the 20th of August and they've started laying. At first I found hen made nests with a couple of dozen in each. Since then they lay in 3 certain spots any...

We bought coloured and brown eggs from a shop that was selling them to eat for $3.50 a dozen. We hatched about 20 over a couple of months. Now we would like to remove the boys from the girls. I think I know which one's but I'm not sure. Any input would be a help.

I never changed my email address or change anything, and yet Backyard Chickens couldn't send me emails. I had to confirm the same email address and it's happy, for now. I hope it's not a regular thing.

We used a chicken water container at first, till they learned to put it everywhere. I tried the container in the video, but that clearly didn't work. We now have a smaller container with the lid on it and a hole melted out of it, (so it doesn't have sharp edges.

We've had to separate ducks, so we have 3 different pens sectioned off. 2 of the pens have young citrus trees in them. The ducks are eating the leaves. I know we can't feed them citrus fruits. Is it ok for them to eat the tree? I can cut the branches till they can't be reach, or fence them off.

Hi. Our last hatch produced 3 out of 14 ducklings mainly due to infertility and not waiting more than 24 hours to let the eggs settle after shipping. The lovely bloke we bought them off sent us another dozen, (so nice of him) so we or them sit in a carton, turning the carton every 12 hours for 3...

Amy is a month old. The ends of her wings are pointed and she's making her back bleed as well as her wing ends. Has anybody else had this problem? It's not an attack and the Drake isn't with them atm.

I found her sitting and she couldn't walk. Her legs lock rigid and stands like a Runner duck then falls over. We've had her in the bath, fed her peas and chick starter. Now she's inside being watched. She can't walk. She's eating and drinking and looks ok, she's preening.

We put 14 Silver Appleyard duck eggs in 2 incubators. We had rollers in one incubator and manually turned the eggs in the other every 5 hours. (manual turning 3 to 7 times in 24 hours) DON'T WASH THE EGGS. Temperature: 37.5 Humidity: 65% Went in the incubator on the 8 Oct. Candled on the 15...

I've got duck eggs going into lock down tomorrow and I found this! I took it out in case it exploded. What is it? What causes this?

Mumbles is a lavender Araucana. I don't think it's a Cockeral. What do you think? Cemani is the white one with the black beak. Pullet? The red fluffy headed one (Araucana), not sure of sex. Thank you for your input.

Has anyone ever had duck eggs pipping at the wrong end 2 days before lock down?

Look what we got in the post today. 8 duck eggs from a prize winning Silver Appleyard Drake, and another 15 purebred every day eggs lol. We're so excited. Our new incubator with the rollers to turn the eggs will make it so much easier. I've got them resting for 24 hours in the incubator where...

Is it the same procedure if the chicken egg is pipping at the wrong end? Is there more danger at that end? Is the yolk near the butt of the chick?

It looks to me like there's only 1 Cockeral so far. There's 11 in this lot. We got 2 Pullets out of 7 last time lol. Pictures 1 white one with yellow beak. 2 PlayStation (Araucana with tuffs on her cheeks) 3 Mumbles Grey Araucana and the orange one on the right. 4 Red one at the back 5. My...

I'm wondering if it's ok to let our poultry eat freshly cut grass. I use to have horses and they get colic from the clippings if they eat it. I would like to mow a section of path with a push mower where they free range.

I've been hatching ducks, and I think I've gotten a bit enthusiastic about it. I need to give away or sell some. How old should a duckling be before it can go to another home? Or out from under a heat lamp?

Are these 3 Cockerals?

Hello. We live in a little town in Victoria Australia. It all started when we drove into our street and seeing a little wild duckling running as fast as it's little legs would go in front of us. I pulled the car over and Scott, my husband caught it. (he always wanted a duck). Of course it's...