The Duck Thread

[City farm]

I love all the wonderful pics!

I was short an egg this morning. Well now I know who is was! Mulch is just too tempting. Who needs a nesting box in the house when you can just lay them outside in the yard.

she look's like Lauren twin!! Sisters..

She is trying to catch up with with Rick..

 

[City farm]

Great Idea with this thread! We raise Ancona ducks, Indian Runner ducks and Silkie ducks. This year a family of bobcats tore into the silkie duck pen and took all 3 of our drakes and 3 hens leaving us with no drakes so we won't have silkies available this year, however we are getting ducklings from Holderread to replace our lost silkies so either the Fall or next year on them.

That adorable darlings! Love the Runners! Is that their usual color? Actually I like all of them.

We like them too!! Condolences from us.. Have they been back?

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks! I just kind of started it one week, just called it "Photo Friday", and it really caught on. It's really fun!

Will you post the thread. I looked but there we so many with the word Friday..

Well, it really hadn't had its own thread, but there seems to be a lot of interest so:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1012110/photo-friday

Please everyone come post some pictures!

 

[City farm]

Hello everyone. I have a question and/or need some advice. I have 2 older females, 5 younger females and one drake. The Drake on the Make. My two older females have been laying eggs for months. The little KC is religious about laying every single day. The younger ones are making a slow start. The are various breeds. I'm pretty sure the WH is laying but am not sure who else. One or two of them are laying every couple days but the eggs have very little shell. The membranes hold together and upon inspection all the insides look okay. Not being sure I didn't use them for anything. The ducks have access to all the oyster shell they want and are using laying feed. It is rather hot here some of the time and they have just started. Does anyone have ideas of why this is happening, will it continue and is there anything else I can do?

Is this happening only with your ducks that are beginning to lay? if so normal and should work itself out. Can also happen when very hot when finishing up a laying period or just starting back so should work itself out. you can get some Calcium Gluconate at TSC and add some to some mashed peas for extra cal. if you want to try something besides ouster shell.

X2? And how many egg's have you seen like that? Check the feed that you use.. Vitamin D3 is important ..

 

[JadeComputerGal]

I feel kind of silly asking this, but one of my ducklings in our youngest batch so far this year makes a beeping noise like roadrunner. Have any of you ever heard this?

 

[Ravynscroft]

I feel kind of silly asking this, but one of my ducklings in our youngest batch so far this year makes a beeping noise like roadrunner. Have any of you ever heard this?

I haven't heard that per se, but my girl squeaks...

 

[JadeComputerGal]

I haven't heard that per se, but my girl squeaks...

Thank you, Ravyn. I'm very puzzled about this. Our tiny BF show girl makes a sort of sqeak noise a lot of the time, and my hubby actually calls her Squeak. She's one of our adult breeders. I've never heard a duck make a beeping noise like this. I'm not even sure what gender it is just yet because it beeps. We're going to sex it this weekend, but whatever it turns out to be still won't explain why it beeps, and I can't find anything related in a web search. I thought there probably has to be somebody on BYC who's heard a duck do this.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thank you, Ravyn. I'm very puzzled about this. Our tiny BF show girl makes a sort of sqeak noise a lot of the time, and my hubby actually calls her Squeak. She's one of our adult breeders. I've never heard a duck make a beeping noise like this. I'm not even sure what gender it is just yet because it beeps. We're going to sex it this weekend, but whatever it turns out to be still won't explain why it beeps, and I can't find anything related in a web search. I thought there probably has to be somebody on BYC who's heard a duck do this.

I think the more we treat them as individuals and not as a whole in a flock, the more each one shows little idiosyncrasies... Lady Grey squeaks and Crash is starting to 'talk' like her while Burn whistles... I like it cuz when I can't see them I know which one is trying to get attention or find me, lol...

 

[WVduckchick]

I feel kind of silly asking this, but one of my ducklings in our youngest batch so far this year makes a beeping noise like roadrunner. Have any of you ever heard this?

My ducks make all kinds of weird noises! I've even heard a few whistles come out of one of them. My silkies honk and beep like the old timey horns we used to put on bicycles lol. Ya know, with the big rubber bulb? That's what they remind me of!

 

[needlessjunk]

she look's like Lauren twin!! Sisters..

She is trying to catch up with with Rick..

Oh wow! She is so pretty and he is a handsome fellow too.