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Is this a rooster? It’s 18 weeks old and I’m assuming the long feathers at the back are saddle feathers and the greenish tail mean rooster. 🙈 Not crowing yet

We have 7 ducks - 2 male pekin x runners, 3 female pekin x runners and 2 female cayugas. Yesterday when I got home from work and went to put the ducks away, I noticed Cleo, one of our cayuga girls was missing. I found her in the duck pool, completely water logged, half drowned, missing 2/3...

We have 2 drakes (in with 5 females), one is the father (Duck Norris) of the other (Quackmire). Norris is a year old and Quack is just over 5 months old. They're the same size. We originally had Norris and 3 of the females. We then hatched Quack and got him 2 females of his own. Usually the...

Ok, so we've completely resigned ourselves to the fact that we can plant anything we like in the front garden (where ducks don't go), we have made a big fenced area in the back garden for "no ducks allowed vegetables", but the rest of the quite large yard where the ducks free range is looking...

At the moment we have ducks separated into 3 sections: 1) Male Duck Norris and his 2 girls Marshmallow & Princess free-ranging in the backyard (all 8 months old) 2) Female Coco (8 months old) and her male "baby" Quackmire (9 weeks old) in the duck enclosure (at night they go into a smaller...

Our 2 new Cayugas are in a pen next to a couple of our other ducks. The Cayugas are female and next to them is a female and her 9 week old son. The Cayugas only arrived yesterday. I noticed today our female in the other pen and one of the new girls are bobbing their heads at eat other and...

Ok, so we had one surviving duckling from a hatch 7 weeks ago - I am almost 100% sure he is male. We now have 3 females, 2 males. At the moment the new male youngster is still with his mum separated from our other adult male and 2 girls. We know this won't be a great ratio going forward, so we...

Hi all We have one duckling at the moment (and 5 adult ducks). The duckling hasn't quacked yet, it's still peeping and making a sort of hoarse quack (not the same raspy noise as my adult male makes, but definitely not a normal loud girl quack). He's 6 weeks old tomorrow and not fully...

We just had 2 ducklings hatch today! We thought we could hear peeping coming from under the Mum's this morning, and this afternoon, there they were! One of them looks exhausted. I'm not sure if he or she is just tired from hatching or if we should do something to help - anyone have any advice?

Some of our eggs are due to hatch today. I just saw one of the ducks go to quite a big effort (climbing over the other ducks) to get to a particular egg. Suddenly she pecked at it, made a hole in it, picked it up with her bill and bolted off to the far end of the enclosure with it. I panicked...

My 3 ducks are sitting on their own eggs. It's day 27. We're not sure how many, if any will hatch. I've candled some on the odd occasion all ducks have give for a swim together and I've definitely seen some that look good, but of course I know that doesn't mean it will all turn out rosy...

Ok, so my runner ducks have been laying in a nice little nest for the last 6 days and today one of my girls started sitting on the nest. I'm very excited to see what happens and whether she manages to hatch any ducklings. We've never done this before and I have a few questions (actually I'll...

Is it common for ducks to lay strange eggs when they first start to lay? I'm worried we're doing something wrong :( Our runner ducks have just started laying in the last week. We're getting some normal looking eggs but some strange ones. At least half have been huge double yolkers, these all...

Hello We have 4 Runners - 1 male, 3 females. They are 4 months old and one just started laying 6 days ago :) For the first three days she laid every morning in their duck house. I put some new straw in there for them (thought I was doing the right thing!), then for the next 3 days there was...

Hi We have 4 runner ducklings, they are 6 weeks old today. They are almost fully feathered (small part on their backs still looks like it has baby feathers, it's still a bit fluffy). We have been raising them in a bathroom shower until they're old enough to go to their outdoor enclosure...

Hello all We are very new to the whole poultry game so I apologise in advance for my newby questions! We have owned chickens for about 18 months and we seem to be doing well there, but now we've just purchased some ducklings. They are Indian Runners and they are 3.5 weeks old at the moment...

Hi all We've only owned chickens for about 9 months and are still learning, so apologise in advance if I'm asking silly questions. One of our hens (I'm not sure which one, its out of two of them that lay the same looking eggs) stopped laying for 3 days and then this morning when I went out...