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I just witnessed my year-old rooster mate with one of our pullets. She’s 11 weeks old. We are worried because he is a barred rock and she’s so small compared to him. We had never seen that behavior toward our pullets until now. We have two other pullets and a cockerel in with our adults.

I don’t know who this was a reply to but I don’t have a drake. I did for a while after I posted this thread then bought a couple of ducklings and raised them up for about 4 weeks then introduced them into the flock but the drake immediately tried to harm the young drake. It appeared as though he...

Thank you. I hadn’t seen those two videos. Excellent examples! My Maggie is definitely not Muscovy. If I lived more rural and had trees and less predators around I would raise some Muscovy. They seem like lovely birds. As it is I’ve got two dogs and my neighbors also have dogs. I think Muscovy...

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I have seen many videos discussing Muscovy ducks and ducklings. Some mention that they start to quack then within a few weeks they lose their quack. *shrug*

As someone who raises Muscovy I would like your opinion whether my duckling is Muscovy or not. My ducklings are 5 weeks old. I think the one I call "Maggie" is either Muscovy or Ancona. I think it's a girl but I'm fairly new to raising ducklings. At 5 weks old she is just starting to have a...

Update... Maggie appears to be a Muscovy duck! We aren't 100% sure yet but here is more information about her: She doesn't get into the water and bathe or swim, though she occasionall steps into the large water bowl but immediately gets out. She doesn't have a "bean" at the tip of her bill. Her...

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He's not Barred Rock, could be a mix. We have a neighbor that has what I think is a Dominique or similar (not BR) that hangs out at the fence corner where our yards meet. He crows like half the day at that back corner at our chickens. LOL He looks just like a Dominecker but I don't have any good...

As I understand it, Andalusian roosters are bred with Barred Rock hens. Some of those resulting hatchlings go on to be called Sapphire Gem chicks (only about 30% of the total hatched chicks have the right color/genetic expression to be called SG). So, because those chicks are technically about...

Oh wow I didn't expect it would be that long! I read that it would last only about two weeks. I read that ducks can last a month though. Well, that would explain the white wing tips I am seeing in some of them - the BA roo must have sired some of them!

The BA had been gone about 3 weeks. The BR was added the next day. Well, our hens are a hybrid between Barred rock and Andalusian. So, it's possible that barring could be passed down even if the Australorp sired the chicks. I believe it was 3 weeks since they last mated with the Black...

I was "sure" that by the time we incubated fresh eggs that the old rooster DNA should be GONE from the hens' oviducts... Well, now that they've hatched, I'm questioning if that's the case. LOL Here are some pics of our hatched chicks. Please help me figure out if the dad was a Black Australorp...

I don't know how old the drake is, we adopted him from someone when we gave her a laying hen and she gave us a KC drake. He seems old, but we have no way of knowing, she thought he was only 2 yo. We already took him to the feed store, he's in their drake pen now. He's no longer a threat to my...

So, here's my dilemma. It's kind of a long story so please bear with me. We bought 2 ducklings from TSC and the same day bought 4 chicks from a local non-chain farm store. They've been raised together and do great together. We then hatched out (via incubator) 9 baby chickens that we are brooding...