ducklings
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Did I do the right thing? + Looking for advice/tips
Hello everyone! Long story short, I ended up with some duck eggs that were about to hatch. I have never hatched anything from an egg in my life. They pipped but within 48 hours there had been no progress, however there was peeping and movement within the eggs. I ended up creating holes from the... -
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Letting Mamas Raise Ducklings
I’ve got 3 Magpie Duck hens and 1 drake. 2 of the hens went broody right before I left on vacation. They’ve been sitting on eggs for around 18 days now. I’ve raised ducks in a brooder but never let a mama raise them. Lots of questions! 1. Should I take their pool away and just give water deep... -
Duckling/Duck Questions
Hey, everyone! A few weeks ago, I remember seeing a post that was a list of the foods ducks could eat and at what age they could eat it. I looked and couldn't find it again anywhere. Does anyone know which post I am talking about? And if so, could you please link it? Our silly ducklings are...- ellieanne22
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There's 28 of them!
First timer; scrambled to get an incubator together after my wonderful drake Allfather disappeared early Friday morning of the 19th of May 2023. I did a quick check at six days and had three out of three 'starters'. Much to my amazement, I didn't have a 'yolker' until number 25. So, out of 29...- Pollo Blanco
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Duckling waterer
My ducklings just arrived today and I have them set up in their brooder with a low, wide water bowl that was recommended to me as they could not knock it over. However, the ducklings have been in their brooder less than 20 minutes and have taken to the water, well, like ducks. I know that...- ellieanne22
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My welsh harlequin girl.- Aki no niwatori
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Black Duck Eggs
I had a duck that was broody, she’s not yet a year old. We let her sit on 12 eggs but they slowly got eaten down to 3. It’s the last week of incubation and it felt easier to move them to the incubator than separate her from my flock of 35 since I’m pretty sure the other ducks ate the eggs when...- emdawnk
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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Is Muscovoy Duck Starter ok for other breeds?
Is Muscovoy Duck Starter ok for other breeds? Specifically Runners, Welsh and khakis. Here's a pic of the ingredients...- Waddlewoods
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- duck feed duck starter ducklings
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Yeast to Chick Starter Ratio for Ducklings?
I recently got some new ducklings, but they store was out of duckling starter. So, of course, the next best option was un-medicated chick starter and nutritional yeast. Now, I have looked this up so many times and for the life of me I can’t seem to find the ratio of nutrional yeast to the chick...- lavendermarie
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New Ducklings vs. 3 week old Ducklings (Aggression)
Hi. I received 4 ducklings (about a week old when I received them) on April 8th. Two pekins and two rouen. (Sex unknown so far.) It seems one of the rouen ducklings is male and the other female. The pekins are a bit of a mystery, but whatever they are seems to be the same and from what I can...- bugheadmomma
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Strange behavior in juvenile
Hi all, Some of you may remember, one of my ducks hatched a clutch in mid may, and they’re all turning out really nicely The other day, as I was looking out through the window, one of the juveniles started flailing around in the ground, wings flapping and everything. I thought maybe a snake or...- Isabella Mcadams
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- ducklings neurological problem
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Help broody mama left her nest overnight after 28 days, should I try incubating eggs?!
Hi everyone! My mallard duck has been broody for 28 days and yesterday into last night she seems to be done being broody and abandoned the eggs. It got down to about 50°f last night. Would that be too cold to try to salvage the eggs and attempt to hatch them in the incubator? Thank you- donahuefamilyfarm
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Soon to hatch ducklings
So I’ve raised 2 ducklings before and was able to keep them inside during the first few weeks since I know they need to remain warm but now those ducklings are grown and having babies of their own and I’m just confused on how much “intervening” I need to do. We live in So-Cal and it’s fairly... -
Rescued ducklings
Last week I got two ducklings from a neighbor that didn’t want them anymore. The kid had convinced their mom to let them get a couple of ducklings just to make their dad mad and now were trying to get rid of them. One I think is a fawn and white Indian runner and the other maybe a khaki...- Quacking ducks
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Paulie's Parade
Hello, Figured I'd start a little thread here as I grow my flock. I warn you though this will have ducks too. I will begin by welcoming my newest additions. I just got in some Belefielder, Welsummers, Andalusian, a silver wyandotte and a mystery chick courtesy of the hatchery. In the duck...- Aki no niwatori
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Updates :)
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since my last post because I was on vacation. My mom stayed with the ducks and took really good care of them. I asked for her not to send me any pictures/videos, unless something was wrong, because I wanted to be surprised with how much they grew. Boy, was I... -
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Pip to Zip
Hi all, I'm looking for some reassurance really. This is my second brood incubating (my first were not viable). I have Cayugas :) and have 5 eggs in a cheapie Amazon incubator. It was a gift from my husband and figured it was worth a shot. This lot have progressed consistently, with veins...- Kdharrison86
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- assist a hatch ducklings pip zip
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Help! My incubator got switched off for about an hour on day 28!
This morning, on day 28 of my runner duck eggs incubation the power was off for around an hour. When I noticed, they felt cold (its not an insulated incubator so there was no heat in there). Have they died? :( Or do I still have hope? :) No pips seen yet either. Thank you (can't believe I got...- Allercott farm
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- ducklings hatching incubation advice power outage runner duck egg
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Ducklings voice cracking? (+ bonus photo of my babies)
Hi! I have four four-week old ducklings (2 pekin, 1 cayuga, and 1 swedish blue). One of my pekins was making a sort of honking (?) noise. I noticed it yesterday when they were playing in the grass, but today it seems more pronounced. It was between the little peeps, almost like a voice crack... -
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Duckling pip but hasn’t broken through egg
So I have a few questions.. We are hatching ducklings for the first time- 4 of the eggs have pipped but only one has made any real progress and they all pipped on Friday, it’s now Sunday… and then we have an egg that pipped upside down, his beak is out but should I turn him over?- dperrott3
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- duck pip ducklings hatching ducks
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs