Hello.... new member here,
In short: my wife and I live on a county island and someone in the neighborhood had been legally, but unethically keeping muscovy ducks for food. Ducks were swarming over the neighborhood, with some being born in our yard last spring. Two of these ducks, we kept, as...
I have 3 mallards (2 drakes and hen) and since the summer both boys mate with the hen in the pool. The strangest thing happened today and this is the first time that we’ve seen it happen. One of our male mallards got on top of the other male in the pool and did exactly what he usually does to...
We've had several chickens over the years that keep disappearing (large patch of feathers left behind - we live on the woods) after a couple years old.
The husby wants to know, and the main reason I joined, is to find out how to tell male/female when they're chicks.
Or how old CAN we tell, and...
Today I found that my female duck played her very first egg today. I have two ducks- a Female Pekin and a Male Aylesbury. Does anyone have any topics for science fair with variables I could do. I was thinking maybe doing breeding with Pekin and aylesbury. Or testing how different foods affect...
He was always so cuddly and friendly but now bites me (hard and latches on and won't let go) and chases me. I hope this is just a phase or will he stay like this? He doesn't go after my boyfriend though, maybe it's a male alpha status but he sure as hell constantly comes at me until I pick him...
The differences in patterning in a female and male Red Breasted King Quail. The females have 'empty' bibs while the males have 'filled' ones, and the barring on the body and chest is much stronger on the male. Not shown in the pic, but there's some rusty red feathers showing up on the male too.
Hello, everybody! I have nineteen chickens in the run, and two of them are roosters. One's a barred rock, another's breed is not identified yet. They're about six months old, and the barred rock rooster is the sweetest thing a rooster could be. It comes near me, lets me pet it, and hand feed it...
Sorry I couldn't resist. Anyway, I just went through all of the cortunix quail eggs I am incubating and it is day 14 right now. I tried to candle them and out of 24 eggs, I have ONE that MAY be viable. My cock to hen ratio is 1:4. I am positive there is nothing in the others because I cut them...