Hi, my husband and I are new to raising poultry, but both are from livestock families and have grown up with cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. Last fall, we got many baby chicks from a hatchery and had no trouble with them at all! We purchased 5 ducks from Tractor Supply 2 weeks ago. This morning, one...
I have 3 pekins and 3 mallards 4 and 5 weeks old :-) I know I have a while to wait yet! But I was wondering when your pekins started laying their first egg??
Hello new to raising ducks, have raised chickens for five years now. We bought four ducks from the tractor supply last week two are obviously much older than the other two. How old do you think they are? And what breed do you think I have? I was doing some research, and believe the chocolate...
So I had my duck sit on Call Eggs and in the last week a broody hen joined the fun and started sitting. Today they hatched out and the ducklings are half under the hen and half under the duck. The duck is protective of both lots, as they are spending time under both of them.
I am planning on...
Hello everyone,
I'm brand new to this site. I'm looking for baby ducklings or chicks? Or if anyone knows of any breeders, hatcherys, farms. Any place we're I can just find baby ducklings or chicks? I live in Brooklyn, Ny , will travel to Long Island, New Jersey or Staten Island , also if...
Found this little duckling at the park, it had actually been taken down by a large fish in the pond! After we had witnessed this happen we moved on completely bumbed out. We came back to the pond about 15 minutes later and found it running around completely freaked out. We waited for some time...
Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Yes fairly new. I have free-range ducks. I kind of got thrown into it about a year ago. Learning as I go.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
I have 4 ducks, 1 pekin and 3 khaki Campbell's...until last night when one of my...