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Seller eggs In this link someone is offering eggs form the uilebaard and lakenfelder.

Sounds not good. Maybe he spread it out over his feathers, it is a bit late now, but I should wash him very good with fresh water. Maybe you can call a vet for advise, to give him some medication? Good luck!

I have two mule ducks, I think they are a pekin X muscovy. I can tell you they are really nice ducks. So far as I know they are not sexlinked. I have read 60% will be a drake (not sure or that is correct) and they are sterile. In French there are a lot of them, bred for the fat liver. If you...

For the people in the Netherlands this website: https://wormbestrijding.nl/ is interesting. Here you can have a worm test done by sending faeces by post. That way you only have to deworm when necessary. They are positively known by many dog owners and just saw that they also do chickens.

I think they are referring to the amount of space and amount of animals. At the large chicken farms, the infection pressure is higher than it is at a back yard chicken owner with 3 chickens. Although you could also say that chickens that live outside, are more likely to come into contact with...

Maybe, but then it would be very coincidental that it always happened before dinner. To be on the safe side, I would like to deworm them once, but rather not with a product that has not been proven safe for poultry. If I give too little there is a risk of resistance and too much is of course not...

They get their food three times a day, the afternoon portion of which is fermented. They are allowed to free range in the garden during the day and eat a lot of grass and insects. However, yesterday it went wrong again. I think he is just very sensitive to this, luckily he always recovers after...

I totally understand. That's exactly why we moved to Bulgaria last year (okay also a bit for the sun 😇). I was born in the Netherlands and I have always lived there. Here there is so much more freedom, much more space, literally and figuratively.

Interesting that the feed in Europe is usually lower in protein than in America. That it's not optimized for herritage/ornamental breeds, do you see that as a negative thing? Because I wonder what they would need extra or less. Or does it have more to do with the economic aspect, that people are...

I think it also depends on the duck breed, Indian runner ducks are apparently fine layers, not interesting for their meat I guess. In terms of slaughter, ducks seem more difficult to me, they have such a nice personality that it makes it difficult to kill them (but I'm just too sensitive to...

Our ducks are also very likely mule ducks (we think pekin X muscov). Here are some pictures of them: At the first picture they were about 3 weeks old and the last one about 8 months.

I can definitely recommend ducks, they are very social and funny. I have the impression that quails are not so people-oriented. Of course it all depends on why you want them. We just have them for fun. They do need a lot more space and in any case a large container with water.

Welcome! You may also be interested in this topic: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peeps-in-europe.1288348/page-309

Usually they get it spread over three times a day but I could double the amount indeed. We're going to try that starting tomorrow and see if they don't get too fat after a while. Yesterday I also prepared some food for fermentation, perhaps that also contributes to their health...

I would like to try to feed them unlimited, but I don't know how that will go. When we put down a bowl they run towards it and within a minute (or less😵) it is empty. If that container were twice as full, it would probably take 2 minutes. But at some point they start overeating themselves I...

I just weighed the food and they are getting 6.3 ounces per duck divided over two to three feeding moments. They are big ducks, so maybe we could give a little more.

I don't weigh the food, I'll do that later, but I'm pretty sure they will eat the stated amount at one moment. But these are our first ducks so maybe we should do it differently...

They were bred as meat ducks and probably a cross between a pekin and a muscovy. They get fat pretty quickly (because of the pekin half, I think) and I don't want to overload their legs. If they get more food they become very lethargic and lie down a lot. There is no snow here and there is...

This is an older topic, here's an update: Things are going well now and I hope it stays that way. About two weeks ago he had it for a short moment again. When my boyfriend walked to their coop, the ducks were just walking around and seemed normal. He went to get their food and when he came back...

Thanks for the info. So I don't have to worry too much. If they eventually turn out to have a parasite, we will treat it. We will indeed only buy them if they appear healthy.