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My Silver Appleyard mama Duck has been sitting for 30 days from my calculation. Can you tell when eggs are about to hatch? Mama has carried out 3 or 4 empty egg shells away from the nest in the last 2 or 3 weeks. They are not bloody nor have any smell to them. A Pekin has been trying to...

How long can a broody duck hen stay off her eggs to eat and drink before it hurts the incubation of her eggs? My Momma Duck will eat, drink and preen herself for 10-15 minutes and then go back and sit on her eggs. This is the 5th day she has been sitting on her eggs.

Here in Central Texas, it is 103 degrees at 1:3 pm on August 21st. I saw a note about keeping chickens hydrated in extreme heat by putting black sunflower seeds in ice water. This is Top Knot, my Plymouth Rock, standing in the ice water and eating some seeds! I got my baby...

We are building a new duck coop. There is melamine covered plywood that would work well for the floor. Is melamine toxic to ducks?