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  1. Yaras3

    Female Pekin ducks mating age

    Hi everyone 👋🏻 I would like to start off with saying how I am thankful for everyone here and how they and this website helped me and helped saving my babies numerous times. Thank you all. I have 5 pekin ducks, 3 males and 2 females (I know the proportions is a bit risky but we didn’t know the...
    • Yaras3
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    • ducks mating pekin
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. C

    For how long can hens lay fertilized eggs after they mate?

    I know that for chickens it is up to 2 weeks, and the fertility rate drops off sharply after that until basically 0 at 1 month, but what is it for ducks? If one of my hens mated with a drake a week ago and they have been separated since then, can she still be laying fertilized eggs? And would...
    • Carabiniero8
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    • fertilized duck eggs hatching mating
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. Georgiachickenkid

    Boosting A Rooster's Confidence?

    Hello BYC! There is a behavioral issue with my two roosters. To put it simple, one rooster is much more authoritative than the other. It started with our three roosters Dom, Jade, and Little Red. Jade was “The Man of the House”, but we culled him after he became increasingly more aggressive to...
  4. GreenHaven

    Buckeye Rooster Mating Question

    I have a small Buckeye flock: 4 hens (7 months) and 1 rooster. The hens have been laying about a month (nearly every day - I’m pretty impressed). The roo mates about twice a day, I think. The hens get quite wet just above their tails, I can tell just by looking at them that the roo has been...
  5. K

    Ducks mating question

    Hi all! I’m new here. We have 9 ducks that we hatched. They’re approximately a year and a half old. We have 6 males and 3 females. I understand that there should be much more females than males, but this is the way they are, and we can’t get anymore ducks. They are our pets and we love them...
    • KittyKat10
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    • duck females males mating
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Ducks
  6. basiljowii

    Ducks trying to mate with Humans

    A few months ago we hatched a female duck and she’s always been attached to me following me around and wanting to be picked up. Recently when I’ve been picking her up she’s been trying to mate with me. She’s in a flock with other ducks (male and female) so we’re not sure why she’s doing this. Is...
    • basiljowii
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    • duck behavior ducks mating mating ducks
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    • Forum: Ducks
  7. E

    How mean is too mean?

    Hi all, I am new to poultry and would like to know if my male quails are being too mean and maybe it's time to add some to the freezer. We have 10 quail (now 9 wks) and split them between 2 cages. The top cage is really frisky and aggressive. I noticed one of the hens had almost all of her head...
    • egops
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    • aggressive mating quail
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Quail
  8. Fallenone05

    Eggs soon...?

    I have three, 4 month old Cayugas. Hatched the day before Valentine's. Two hens and a drake. Today I saw my drake actually breed one of the hens. They did their little necking motion and he got on top of her and did the thing. She didn't fight or fuss and just let him. I feel like 4 months is...
  9. Owen_Blandford

    Hen to Tom Ratio

    I got 6 turkey chicks from tractor supply and we think that there are 3 toms and 3 hens. is that a good ratio? They will be free-range turkeys.
  10. Sandwitch

    Rooster Mating Feather Loss

    Hi! This isn’t a super big problem just yet but it’s not getting better. One of our hens has been showing signs of feather loss along her back. We looked at it and decided to get Baba Yaga (the hen) a saddle. Well we got one for her and idk if it’s just that it doesn’t fit great or if we need...
  11. Dany1445

    My silkie rooster I’ve had for almost 2 years has never mated with any of my hens and they are almost a year old themselves….

    My roo “pebble” will only mate with shoes and dark cloths …. And a special red parrot pillow pet ….. he’s obsessed with it and even if he doesn’t see it for long long periods of time he still refuses to mate with females ….what could I do to fix this issues .he’s practically a hen that doesn’t...
  12. Cbishop58

    Heritage turkey mating

    Hi all I have a 3 yr old Red Bourbon tom he had a friend a Brown tom to live with but a fox killed him. 8 months ago we got him a Narragansett Hen she is 2 yrs old. This is the first time he has been with a female. My question is my tom has tried to mate her twice with no success? She...
  13. proudduckowner22

    Pekin drake not mating

    Hi, I have a group of 4 females and 1 male Pekin ducks. I have them separated in their own pen right now for the last little bit since I have been collecting their eggs for hatching, I put a dozen of their eggs in the incubator, and a week later I found that almost 10 of them never started...
  14. S

    Turkey Hen hurt (large skin rip) while mating- need help with treatment

    Hi all, My female turkey was hurt last night when our much larger tom (who I don't want mating with her, it was an accident they were together). She has a fairly large patch of skin (maybe 4x5") peeled open underneath her wing above her hip. It isn't a deep wound, but it's a large area...
    • StephJuno
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    • mating turkey wound care
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Turkeys
  15. Roos

    Guinea hens with hurt backs

    Hello all! Earlier this month, one of my guinea hens got hurt in her back and under her wing and died from sepsis at the vet. Now a second one is hurt, she's staying at the vet with a good chance of recovery. But the wounds are so deep! The vet thinks the male Guinea did it, but we owned one...
    • Roos
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    • behavior guinea fowl guineas injury mating
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  16. felys

    Advice needed - gosling hatching, imprinting

    Hello friends and goose experts... I need advice on gosling imprinting. My gosling is in the midst of hatching from egg. Externally pipped and slowly making its way out. He or she is the only egg that reached this point due to unfortunate circumstances. I read that goose that imprint on...
    • felys
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    • gosling imprinting mating
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Geese
  17. AGeese

    Geese Breeding

    Several of you let your geese do their thing, but I'm just wondering why we don't have more breed and trait related geese discussion? With so few available domestics in the states I would think this would be new ground. We're pretty much all raising heritage breeds, but beyond these varieties...
    • AGeese
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    • breeders breeding crossing geese mating sop traits
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Geese
  18. Launchpad

    Territorial behavior or mating behavior of male Pekin

    Hello all So two issues have arisen that I was hoping to get some opinions/thoughts on. Firstly is the behavior of the two older Pekin vs three newer/younger ducks (2 Cayuga and 1 Silver Appleyard) The two Pekin, one male one female are at 6 months and have adjusted well to their coop, the...
    • Launchpad
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    • behavior cayuga ducks mating silver appleyard territorial
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. L

    Alpha hen attacking almost 6mo Golden Comet while being mated by Rooster

    Catalana (I think) Hen is at least 4 years old. Golden comet is coming up 6months. Swedish Flower rooster is roughly same age as golden comet. Main hen is pretty aggressive but has gotten better. She doesn’t like being mated but at the same time she does and she doesn’t want another hen to be...
  20. T

    Chicken Genetics?

    OK, so I understand human genetics, biology, punnet squares, etc. What about chicken breeding? Our flock is all BO ladies, and we are on the market for a roo (and maybe more girls to lol). If we got, say a Barred Rock Roo, for example, what would the hatched chicks be? I feel like I've seen...
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