Hello fellow duck lovers,
I have two sweet young drakes that I am looking to rehome. I would love to keep them, but we don’t have enough hens for an healthy drake:hen ratio. They are excellent bug control, super entertaining, and are past the needy duckling stage but still young!
Please let me...
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I recently moved to a new house with my two Pekins Count Duckula (male) and Sunshine (female). There’s two dogs that live in the same house one is a lab who couldn’t care less about my ducks he’s a little sweetheart but the other one is some kind of mutt who just salivates whenever...
I have 2 hens and a drake, theyre 3 lovely spoiled brats and theyre spoiled rotten, asking $30 for all 3, they come with water bucket, healthy birds, hens lay double yolk eggs from time to time, quiet and adventurous theyll steal your heart
The goal of getting ducks was for duck eggs, however our first sojourn into duck keeping has resulted in all four of our ducks being males. The farm store we picked them up from couldn't sex them, but thought they probably were picking females. We naively thought we could get 4 ducks and the...
This happened last night or early morning.
What would do this? There has been a weasel spotted.
Hes walking and acting fine!
I will do a warm.bath.
Can I do epsom salt?
What else?
Hello ! So about a year ago I got two Rhode Island Red hens and a Pekin duck. They grew up peacefully and it wasn’t until recently that he (Eli) tried mating with my hens ! So i rescued a little 1 year old female duck in hopes it would calm him down. The rescuer unfortunately didn’t know what...
Hey ! So around March of last year I got a Pekin duckling and two Rhode Island Red chicks. At the time, being a new poultry owner, I didnt think too much about the sex of the duck. I raised them all together and they lived quite peacefully together. But these last few weeks Eli (the male pekin)...
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In my previous post, I have more details but short story I have a limping Pekin duck with no trauma or Bumblefoot. I want to know what is going on with my little man and was wondering if taking an x-ray would reveal something. Has anyone had any experience with this? Is it possible to...
Hello all, I have a nearly 2 year old male Pekin who has been limping for about 2 weeks now. He is quite a big boy and started walking with a slight limp maybe 2 months ago. He could still keep up with his 2 other Pekin females, no problem. His limp got really bad about 2 weeks ago and was very...
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So I have a total of 12 pekin ducks, 5 of them are males. One of the males named Angel (named Angel because he unfortunately developed a mild case of angel wing & we did try wrapping but the other ducks always found a way to remove it for him, little stinkers). Angel chases the other...