duck hen

  1. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Duck Not eating?

    A few days ago I noticed our fawn and white runner isn’t eating like the rest of our ducks. They are free range during the day and at night they get penned up and get feed as well. She is one of our more skiddish ducks. Probably even the the most. At first I thought maybe she was full from...
  2. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Duck Laying Northern NY

    I know hens begin the lay around 5-6 months old. I have a few girls getting close to this age but am in Northern NY and is already getting chilly out. I know ducks can be temperamental with laying. I know of people having ducks lay through winter and how flocks stop laying altogether during...
  3. MartinFamilyHomestead

    How to know hen is egg bound

    I have a Cayuga was has been laying for maybe 6 weeks. We let her keep her clutch in hopes she would go broody. Eventually she had about 20 and did show much signs of laying on them or going broody so ended up taking them to incubate. That was a little less than a week ago. She laid an egg the...
  4. MartinFamilyHomestead

    How to get duck to go broody

    I have a Cayuga hen that’s been laying for about a month. We put a nest box in our duck house and she is laying them in there. We have 12 eggs now and I figured she would go broody but hasn’t. Is there a way to encourage her to lay on her eggs and hatch them? We also have a Muscovy hen that...
  5. awyman

    Feather Loss.

    As you can see from the picture she has some missing feathers on her wings, is this from drakes? Or from something else? I also don’t understand why her wings always look brown and muddy, she has a pond she can clean herself in.
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  6. DuckWhisperer06

    Broody Duck Hen

    I’m 95% sure our Pekin is broody, she’s been on her ‘nest’ for a few days now and she gets very defensive when I try to collect the eggs. She doesn’t have any eggs and she’s still sitting on the nest. Can I block off the door and put food and water in the ‘house’? She still comes out every...
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