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Quote: I didnt mean to offend anyone I am sorry if I did.. I got to looking and found the meatbird section and thought to myself then maybe I had put it into the wrong area. Once again I did not mean to offend any one

This will be the first time for us with the ducks. We have processed our chickens as needed.. We have two many drakes in our flock at this time and feed is not cheap.

When we butcher our chickens we use a killing cone,bleed out, then scald and hand pluck. When we do our ducks will it be the same method. Wondering about the plucking due to the ducks natural oil on it feathers. Is there a trick to them? Thanks..

Wondering what the prefered method of egg care to be consumed. We collect every day and wash as well.. We have had no issues as of yet but are giving away to some friends so we want to be careful.. Thanks for any suggestions..

Is there a prefered method to handling eggs to be consumed other than washing them off. We collect every day. Thanks

Thanks for the info. The drakes are looking like females we can tell them buy their beak color. When will they actually molt is it an age thing or season type thing?

Hello we have mallards that are about a year and half old. We have 3 drakes and 7 hens. They all have really lost all their coloring. The drakes heads are no longer the brilliant green they have always been. Was wondering if it was that they were molting? Can someone explain the molting...

Yea I am thinking maybe that as well.... we had left them access to the lil pool 24 hrs. we did have a way for them to get out and in but thinking maybe they got to saturated or cold and couldnt get out. Very sad! I know people have all mentioned grown drakes will be mean and do that to them...

We have a slew of ducks that are 10wks to 4wks of age. All hatched in incubators then moved out to the duck pen. We just got a small wading pool for them and gave them access into and out of it. We found two drowned two days ago and this morning we found five drowned. We don't see any agression...

We have been steady hatching out mallards since March. We have had a few that quit at the end for whatever reasons. Overall they have been doing good. We had 17 hatch in the last 24hrs. All are fine but we have one that keeps floping over on its back. It gets back over sometimes but it will just...

We have had very good sucess hatching our RIR,s. We have had failure when the eggs are small. We have had three that came from small eggs. They all lasted a while but had issues.They eventually died. We will only set larger eggs from now on. Just a note we are having a very hard time hatching...

I thought we were the only ones things like this happened to. We have our week olds chicks and ducklings in the loft of our house. We left to go do errands with instructions to our daughter to just keep your eyes ad ears open for the lil ones. We got a frantic call that a duckling was out. Funny...

We just hatched out chicks. Some were days apart. When they were dry enough to come out of the hatcher they were put with the others . We have not experianced any thing negative. We also just added more hens to our original flock. We were worried about that but the very first night our rooster...

Scoop sorry about your hatch!!. We have two ducklings now from the setting on 2/6. I hope for some more but we have started and added to our bators. Our ducks are going to take over at this point. Mallards are laying 4 a day. We plan on grouping our gatherings every couple of days and putting...

Question has been asked. We have our chicks in the brooder(playpen converted) in the loft of our house. This time of year we get lots of ladybugs. Are they harmful if the lil ones eat them? Had to ask......

We are new to hatching ourselves but we use Hovabators 2362n. It is over the 100.00 mark but we have had good luck with it. Forced air,thermostat is reliable. We also have the 1610 turner in one and the 1611 turner in the other. We purchased a Lil Giant from our TSC but we are not impressed. It...

Ok guy's we were with you setting eggs on the 6th. We set Rir's and Mallard eggs. We now have our first duckling popped out couple of minutes ago. We have several more but I think it was a day early. This is our first attempt on ducks. We have 31 setting in bator number two. We ended up with...

Hello, we have alot of Mallard duck eggs that we are going to try and incubate. We have a couple questions that hopefully someone has done this before and can help us. We have been very successful incubating our RIR eggs but not sure if all the facts are the same with Mallard eggs. First...

Success ! So far we have 5 RIR baby chicks. We have one more in the hatching bator. We are going to be moving 5 more RIR eggs from the bator with the turner to our hatching bator tonight soooo....hopefully those guys will be popping out soon! We had a hard time getting our hatching bator's...