ducks

A friend of mine brought this to my attention.... Lower Providence Township in eastern Pennsylvania will vote to virtually eliminate the ownership of all chickens in their community. There will be a meeting July 20th at 7pm to vote in an extremely unfair amendment to their rules. I don't live...

Hello, i’m deaf and I own chickens for 7 years. I got near 20 chickens now have 6 more new chicks. Overall is 26. I have five ducks~. Preview i had 6 guinea fowls but one got hit by car which is my last 7 years old guinea fowls. I sold 5 guinea fowls to a better place where not too close a road.

1 year old, male call duck. He used to have a black head, but malted a few months ago and never gotten it back. Does anyone know what colour he is? 😊 The last pic was when he had a black head.

1 year old, male call duck. He used to have a black head, but malted a few months ago and has never gotten it back. Does anyone know what colour he is? 😊 The last pic was when he had a black head.

Hello! I found this forum while researching ways to help my duck with an infection. I’m still battling this issue and may make a separate post later if I can’t find the answer in another post. I started my flocks a few years ago. We hatched chickens through my work at the local elementary...

Hello everyone! I was just wondering what is your preferred method for feeding grit to your flocks? Do you guys set it aside in a separate container for them to pick what they need? If you do this method, what containers have you found works the best so they don't scratch it out? Do you mix it...

I have chickens and ducks. they have separate coops but have the same run. what is the best thing to put on the ground in the coops and run? The ducks soak the run and make it all mud and smell like a pig pen and the chickens dig holes that make me trip when hauling water in. I have heard some...

Hi all! I haven't been on here in a couple years and laughed to see that my last post was "ducks won't come OUT of the water!" 😂 Sadly since then we lost all of our ducks (f&^*&^ mink!). About 6 weeks ago we got 5 new female Cayuga ducklings. We started out with them inside in a brooding box...

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...

Hi, We have recently moved house and have 4 ducks. There are quite a lot of cats around and most pay no interest in our ducks. But there is one, quite big cat, that is becoming more and more threatening. It’s ran at our ducks quite a few times and stalks them like prey. We have put lots of cat...

Hi all! As things are warming up and my girls are finally outside in their enclosure, I wanted to get some opinions on different forms of insect control (specifically mosquitos and flies). For Mosquitos~ My ducks (3) just upgraded from a kiddie pool to a large 4' x 12" (~80 Gallons) pool...

My baby duck hatched today, baby chicks are due in a week to a week and a half. Can I put them together in the same brooder? My duck will be a week old with day old chicks. Right now my duck is lonely so I’m hoping this would work out?

I am first time hatching some duck eggs! I have 6 that are day 19 and 4 that are day 17. I’m so nervous. Two of them died already and I really want the rest to make it. I’ll attach where the air sacs are. They look rather big to me but maybe I’m just paranoid?

Can ducks eat canary melons???

For the past couple of days we’ve noticed that our female duck, BeeBee has got a low belly but there has been no change in her behaviour, she’s still running and swimming and drinking like normal, she still comes running when she sees us come out into the garden, I have read up on Ascites and...

Hi, does this mandarin duck egg look like it’s dead? It is currently on day 29 or 30 of incubation.

These are my second set of duck eggs in incubator and they don’t look right to me even with proper turning the eggs looks like they may be stuck idk though need help

Hello, I’ve got a flock of 5 birds, 3 chickens 2 ducks. I’ve got hundreds of tiny mushrooms popping up in my lawn and I’m worried it may not be safe for the chickens to eat them. Just curious to know what folks have seen or done with lawns riddled with mushrooms.

Hey y’all! Long time chicken, first time duck owner here! We have five 1 week old mallards in our brooder right now, they are healthy and thriving! We are using a large heat plate instead of a lamp. I have the plate on a tilt so the ducklings can find the right spot to get cozy in but the last...