Pekin Duck Club!

[lovemy mallards]

my babies are getting so big!

 

[Peekin In]

They will be 8 weeks on Monday, I think it had to have been the sheer amount of rain that came down that soaked him, today he is back with the others happily swimming around in the pool with no signs of being waterlogged.

 

[Patriciaallison]

That's the first I have heard of that method working good to know from someone who has tried it!
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[burgandyrae]

How can I tell that hatching time is getting close? Mama is sitting on 21 eggs and I know it should be any day now but what behaviors from her should I be looking for and do they usually hatch at a certain time of day? Or randomly?

 

[tracyjg]

I believe it can be anytime during night and day and usually it's 5 days past the due date on hatching . But if they where not all laid at ones and duck is hatching it maybe give or take a little longer. It depends when she began to sit on them regularly .

 

[burgandyrae]

I believe it can be anytime during night and day and usually it's 5 days past the due date on hatching . But if they where not all laid at ones and duck is hatching it maybe give or take a little longer. It depends when she began to sit on them regularly .

Is there any certain behaviors I should be looking for?

 

[tracyjg]

I new myself with broody animals. But I have been incubating for a little over a year.

 

[tracyjg]

When I started the ducks and chickens and rabbits I didn't know if it would work for my son. Dr said he went from 50% to 70% in a year on his leg. So I want to do more with them to increase my sons skills. He said keep the hard work with the farm life up no restrictions.its has improved all of us so much.

 

[burgandyrae]

I new myself with broody animals. But I have been incubating for a little over a year.

I'm new altogether! Never incubated and these are my first ducks and chickens, ducks just happened to make a nest just in time for my chicks to go outside lol

 

[Frutfarm]

I have two dogs that I love but if either started going after my neighbors fowl my dogs would be pinned permanently or rehomed I don't understand people that allow there dogs to kill other animals! My Pitt has taken to chasing stray cats but never my own cats I figure she is just guarding he home. She never and I mean never goes after a chicken or duck. I'm wondering what people do if they have a dog that gets the taste for domestic fowl? What are the options tried and true that you use on a dog that likes fowl? When I was a kid I heard people say tying the dead bird to the dogs neck and letting it decay was the only way. Now in my adult brain I understand this is not true! It's kind of stupid dogs love dead gross stuff! What are the proper training methods for keeping a dog off fowl?
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I don't know. I love my neighbor dogs, so to keep them all safe and out of trouble, I just prefer the fence.