So you clip all of the white feathers on the bottom row? and you CAN clip the green and yellow too, but they may be able to fly? Trying to figure this out before I try it on my birds. they haven't started flying yet, but the other side of the fence lie coyotes in waiting. Whenever I clip my chickens I've done both wings. When I did one, they still flew over fences. But there was no awesome diagram like this one for me either
Best way for me.
I have 2 that look like Stanford. we all need to post pics of our drakes that look alike and just see how closely they do resemble each other.Here's my Stanford! Isn't he handsome? Tail wagging big boy.
this is Opie I'll have to get one of Henry since he's molted 
If you absolutely don't want fertile eggs, then yes. Removing eggs is the next best option, that said it doesn't always work.. they are sneaky buggers and often will disappear to set a clutch, i lost a 2yo this summer because of this ...My one duck is chocolate and black I think
Should I separate out Elvis my drake after they start laying? I don’t want to get too over run with ducklings in the spring.
Maybe but in my experience they choose lower ground, while in their native country they did use tree hollows, i have found them set clutches under wood piles, farm implements, heck i have had them try my horse barn, the farm cats cozy box and so forth...Are they likely to get up into my high nesting boxes to lay eggs? I have no idea what I'm doing with ducks yet obviously lol. I had tried to get them over to the "duck" side of the condo to no avail. The ayam cemani have decided that is THEIRS so the ducks go with the white bresse and the haffies and younger ayam cemani chickens.
The cemani are very arrogant and bossy. They give the muscovies what for in the pecking order of things which was kind of surprising.
I just do the green and yellow. yesterday after we were all discussing this I go out to find one of my young ducks over on the other side of the fence, she has one wing clipped, I think someone was picking on her and over she went but still trying to figure out how she was frantically trying to figure out how to get back in. When I picked her up I could see i hadn't clipped far enough on her feathers so she got another clip I think the main thing is clipping right up to where the purple starts on the diagram I got lax on that with a few, so I did another over too. Just always be sure they are completely finished with molt before you clip.So you clip all of the white feathers on the bottom row? and you CAN clip the green and yellow too, but they may be able to fly? Trying to figure this out before I try it on my birds. they haven't started flying yet, but the other side of the fence lie coyotes in waiting. Whenever I clip my chickens I've done both wings. When I did one, they still flew over fences. But there was no awesome diagram like this one for me either
Welcome to scovie land!
already did this one but wanted to get him Opie 3.5 yrs on the same page as my other 2 scoundrels err drakes.
Andrew[Andy] 2.5 yrs old top Henry lower at 1.5 yrs From the looks of it I'd say Opie maybe the daddy of Henry
What happened? dead or flew off?I lost one of my Duck hens this morning.
