first year

Welcome to the Our Ducks' First Year thread, where I'll (try to) post daily updates on the status of our ducklings as they grow up during their first year. Our ducks arrived today, which means this thread has begun. I'm doing this in the form of videos on my youtube channel called "The Quack...

I've had chickens for about 15 years, so not a total newbie. First set were Golden Comets. They laid like clockwork around 22 weeks. 2nd set were Barred Rocks. They also laid between 22 and 25 weeks. Now I have 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 2 Gold Laced Wyandottes, and 2 Buff Orpingtons, hatched...

Hello all, I'll be a brand new backyard chicken "farmer" come the spring, if you can call 4 or 5 hens a farmer. After years of watching from the sidelines, I'm finally going to make the dive into it. I've built my coop and run, will be ordering my new chicks for the spring in a week or so, and...