Does ANYONE Have Any Questions About Ducks? Anything can be Asked and Everything Will be Answered.

[Cayuga momma]

Thank you, I would like to let them free range when the chicken go out in the afternoon when we get home from work but I want to make sure that IF they do have to stay contained like when we get home late, are away for the weekend or on vacation then they will have enough room and are safe. The sides of the dog kennel has HWC all the way around currently so if it's better for top too then I don't mind the cost. Few extra dollars are worth it for the safety of my girls, For them and for my piece of mind.

They should stay in the run for atleast a week so they will know where to come back to when you free range.

 

[WVduckchick]

I do not mark the eggs do you think I would be better putting them in the incubator will they lay another clutch thanks

Some are more broody than others, so its hard to say for sure. As mine was building her nest, our temperatures took a drop and she was not yet sitting overnight, so I took most of the eggs and incubated them. But as you take them, it will extend her time before she will sit, because she is waiting for her "magic number" (and she will not tell you what that number is! lol)

So you could take these, or mark them, and leave them. Then when she finally decides to sit, you can remove the oldest ones. Once she commits to sitting, she won't lay any new ones. Watch for them to spend the night on the eggs, and when they "arrange" the eggs in a nice uniform nest.... that's when they are getting serious!

This girl went broody at barely 7 months old.

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh, and if you mark eggs, use a permanent marker. They will rub pencil marks off.
I just make a scribble on the fat end for ease of finding my mark. If I mark more than once, I use another color, but you could also write the date, or a letter code, etc. etc.

 

[WVduckchick]

@James Higson see the posts above. I saw your comment on my profile page after this, so maybe you missed them.

 

[DucksOhio]

sitting ducks sure are cute

They are cute, but defensive

 

[DucksOhio]

yes makes perfect sense!!!! thank you. We have a dog kennel 10x10 attached to the run/coop for our chickens and I want to extend the chicken run to connect with the back of our shed and use the dog kennel for the ducks.

Thank you for your reply

That's a nice house and run!

 

[DucksOhio]

Okay - I have a question for this thread...why do ducks POOP MORE THAN ANY ANIMAL ON THE PLANET?
I clean my duck house every day, picking up wet, poopy straw. Every morning it looks like they had a frat party in there overnight.

 

[Jpat]

Okay - I have a question for this thread...why do ducks POOP MORE THAN ANY ANIMAL ON THE PLANET?
I clean my duck house every day, picking up wet, poopy straw. Every morning it looks like they had a frat party in there overnight.

Hahaha yeah eh. 6 chickens make up for 2 ducks.

I realy like pine shavings for spot clean ups like that

 

[Harley Chick]

That's a nice house and run!

Thank you hubby is a genius can look at something and replicate it with out batting an eye. It's a combo of one of the Carolina coops and a few I saw on this web site. As everyone say's I wish we had made it larger.....chicken math....that's the reason for the dog kennel but this summer i want to build a run to the rear of our shed and install a automatic coop door on the main building so the girls don't have to wait for me to let them out on the weekends boy do they give me a verbal what to when I try to sleep in

 

[Raenh]

How often will my silver appleyard drake whos 7 months old lay eggs?

unless he suddenly becomes a she like my sodapop, who decided to lay 36 eggs for her first batch.
Seriously, I get that my theory was wrong, but HOW do you improperly sex a duckling and say its male?!