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Thank you! And I agree, dogs become family easily. I can't imagine my life without at least one dog, at this point. Kai is my shadow, he always wants to be involved, and loves to help out. Or think he's helping. I try to give him tasks so he feels included, but sometimes he gets creative in how...

Ooh thank you I'm definitely gonna check this out! I love seeing people's dogs too. And gushing about my dog. Ok, since you insist... 😇 This is my German Shepherd, Kai. Short for Kaiser, but basically only gets called that when he's done something naughty. He is a big pathetic baby, a 45kg...

I'm still learning to be nicer to myself. Thank you though! 💜 They are my world. Be careful with giving me too much power to spam photos... I'm like the annoying parent forcing everyone to look at baby photos. But it's ducks (and my dog). Lol, I love that. I'd have guessed like Azazel or...

Thanks so much for the welcome!! I'll try and attach some pics :) Thanks also for the welcome! 💜 I am sorry you went through that but I hope retirement is treating you well! I don't miss trying to force myself to work, but I do still sometimes get in the negative mindset of feeling "useless"...

Hello! Nice to see you here too :D Thank you for the welcome! 💜

Thought it'd maybe be nice to join in on this thread. So, hi! I'm Sam, I'm nonbinary, trans masc and disabled. My partner and I dream of one day owning our own "proper" homestead. For now, we have a few ducks that live in our back garden, and I adore them. I also keep a bunch of other animals...

How much treats? I believe that it is recommended that 10% or less of their daily intake should be treats. I prefer to do treats every other day or less often. Especially as you are free ranging, don't forget that they are finding things while out and about foraging. Lots of animals are good at...

I want to preface this by saying I've only kept ducks for 2 years, and I'm certainly no expert. But I hope that sharing my own experiences might help. I have more experience with dogs and dog training than anything else, but the methods can be utilised with other animals. I trained my ducks...

Thanks much for all your help! So far it looks like I can get it for roughly the same price per kg as the plain flint poultry grit. I'll see what it looks like when I buy it, and I can always use it for potting up plants if it doesn't look like it'll work. Most of the types I've bought before...

I get worm counts done twice per year, rather than worming my ducks. Although I think every 3 months is the recommended amount. I use Westgate Labs which is in the UK. It's fairly inexpensive and easy to do - you just take samples and send them off. I do it once in autumn and once in spring, but...

I want to preface this by saying I have only kept ducks for 2 years, and there are others that will be far more experienced and knowlegeable than me. However, my first duck was also a solo hatch. Wasn't meant to be, but out of 6 eggs, only he hatched. From my experience, the sooner you can mix...

They do have access to the ground at all times, except when they're in the coop overnight. They're penned rather than fully free range though. But we have very heavy clay soils here, so I'm not sure if they can even get good access to grit/stones by themselves. The ground gets really hard over...

Thanks for your reply! Not sharp as in sharp will cut you, but they are not really smooth edged like gravel often is. I was under the impression smooth stones like gravel were useless for grit? Perfectly happy to be wrong, though! Maybe so. I've only seen in person the 20kg bags of mixed grit...

I am certainly no expert, and have only been keeping ducks for 2 years. But this sounds normal to me. Lots of my ducks like sleeping in their water tubs (and their pool!). I did have runner ducks for a brief period. I found they liked splashing and playing in water as much as any other breed. I...

Hi all, Would horticultural grit be a suitable replacement for normal poultry grit for my ducks? I am struggling to find poultry grit in a larger quantity, that doesn't also contain oyster shell. My local feed stores only sell plain flint grit in a 1kg tub. The big 20kg sacks are "mixed...

wow i totally missed all these lovely birthday wishes huh! 💖 thank you to all

I soaked mine in F10 veterinary disenfectant before reusing and had a great hatch with the duck eggs! Followed by another decent hatch of quail eggs. But I think I will just try out some coarse aquarium filter foam if this one does get messy/needs disposing (I have plenty of spare aquarium...

Do you think I'm overworrying then? 😅 I did thorougly disinfect it, but I'm concerned there's good reason it recommends replacing it after every other hatch. It feels quite... papery? And a little flimsy? So I'm just not really sure. Thanks for your response though!

Hi all, Hope this is the right section to post this. For Christmas, I got a Brinsea Ovation 28 EX. Just finished my first hatch with it with Coturnix quails and got a really good hatch. Going to be setting some duck eggs next. It has this sponge thing in it, called an "evaporation block"...