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I have some eggs in the incubator and wanted to make a ‘journal’ to document everything so I can look back on it later. Feel free to follow along! And share your stories/photos/journey if you’re also incubating. Right now there’s 5 eggs that are doing well. 4 Call Duck eggs I ordered and 1 of...

Hello! Are there any foods you would suggest to give my ducks that aide in providing calcium? I have a bucket of tiny oyster shell pieces next to their food, but I can’t really tell if anyones been eating them. I do give them mealworms as snacks and occasionally lettuce & watermelon too. I...

Looking for your opinions and experiences on these breeds of ducks: Welsh Harlequin, Silver Appleyard, Saxony, Silver/Splash Swedish I’m going to get some more female ducklings. It started at 2 but I managed to convince duck dad to be fine with 3. Well I tried to sneakily make it 5 and he drew...

I have some duck eggs arriving tomorrow to try my hand at hatching. My question is: do I need to subtract the 3 days it took for shipping from the total amount of days? Or do I just start at day 1 when I get them? Just trying to figure out when the lockdown period should start and what not

I’m back! Not sure if I’m paranoid or if this is actually an issue. I noticed what looks like black poop this morning. I thought I noticed this a few other times recently but brushed it off as me overthinking everything lol But this is definitely black. Is this an issue? What would cause black...

I’m wondering if a single gosling would be okay if raised with ducklings the same age? Most of what I have found searching online says it would be okay, but I’d rather get some opinions myself. My concern is if the gosling will be effected from not having another gosling friend. I have 10...

Hello friends! We got our first egg this morning!!! I’m wondering if anyone might know which duck breed it came from? We have Magpie, Blue Swedish, Black Swedish, and Cayuga. I thought maybe Cayuga, but I’m not sure if the color is right

Hello friends! One of my Magpie ducks has had their feathers ruffled for at least a week now, probably closer to two weeks. Outside of that, he/she seems fine. I’m not sure on poop because we have 10 ducks so it’s hard to tell who did what. But all the poop I’ve seen in general seems normal. I...

So I have a small assortment of ducklings (10 total, around 3 weeks old). I have a few magpie, one is mainly white with a few black spots. I noticed this morning while she was looking at the sun that her eyes are very light blue. I tried to look it up to see if it means anything or if she could...