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My Dad found this egg when he was mowing today. I don't have anything that lays an egg this size, nor do my birds roam as far as my parents' house. Maybe a goose that wandered from the neighbor's house? Next to a duck egg. Compared to my hand. Next to a turkey egg.

Not my chicks. They were sold to a friend as RSL pullets. To me, they look very light for pullets but I've never had RSLs so I'm certainly no expert.

I read that different breeds incubate for different lengths of time. I have mallards and cayugas. Can I put them in at the same time? If so, what day do I put them on lockdown? I've hatched chicken, turkey, and guinea eggs plenty of times but never duck.

What breed are you raising? What day do you process? How do you cook your bird? What is the weight of your processed bird? We have a standard bronze this year. I had a bourbon red pair but decided to sell them a couple weeks ago as the tom was bullying my chickens. I'm hoping to process...

I have three mallard hens and two cayuga hens. They recently started laying eggs (well, they've probably been laying for a couple months but they just recently started laying where I can find them). Some of the eggs are elongated and a nice cream color. The others are larger, more round in...

Is it common to get ducks from a hatchery that a quite different than the breed they are supposed to be? I have five mallards and one is smaller and colored different than the rest. She has a white ring around her neck and a lighter colored breast. She is lovely, but definitely not a pure...

This is a friend's bird. It is approximately 5 months old but hasn't ever crowed. It's a large silkie, the same size or larger than her LF pullets of varying breeds. I don't do silkies so I'm not much help. Anyone have a guess?

Out of 15 eggs that made it to hatching stage, I have 11 that have hatched so far. One has curled toes that I am going to try and fix but the rest are all doing well. These eggs came from someone else and I have no idea what color birds she has. When I picked up the eggs, I only saw pearls so I...

We have a flock of eleven ducks. Two rouens, five mallards, and four cayugas. The mallards and cayugas hatched around April 16th. At what point should I be able to tell boys from girls and what should I look for? One of the mallards has much lighter coloring than the others. Do they usually...

I have several different breeds of hens but only one rooster. I think I know which chicks go with what breed of hen but I want to see if you all agree. My rooster was (he was killed by a fox about a month ago) a speckled sussex. My hens are speckled Sussex, Easter egger, Rhode Island Red, barred...

What are the most likely daytime predators that could be getting my birds? I've lost a few hens recently but what really hurt was losing my rooster yesterday. I doubt it was a predator bird as he was a big rooster. No sign of feathers or anything left behind but we have 112 acres and our birds...

Waiting for eggs to hatch once they have started rocking around piping is so hard! Why does it have to take so long! I have four pips so far and we are going out for a Mother's Day brunch in a couple hours. Won't it figure if they hatch while I'm gone, lol. I'd almost rather stay home and have...

Ok, so I obviously should have looked this up about two weeks ago, but I just read that guinea eggs take about a week longer than chicken eggs. I had been told by a local person that they hatch guineas and chickens together with no problems. No mention of starting the guineas earlier than the...

Ok, so I obviously should have looked this up about two weeks ago, but I just read that guinea eggs take about a week longer than chicken eggs. I had been told by a local person that they hatch guineas and chickens together with no problems. No mention of starting the guineas earlier than the...

I noticed yesterday that one of my poults has wry neck and today I see that two more do as well. They are about six weeks old and are housed with some younger chickens. I've not dealt with this before. I would prefer to treat each poult individually rather than put meds in the water for...

I have nine, one week old ducklings (mallard and cayuga), and one has very thin feathers on its back. When they go swimming, it is super noticeable. Is this something I should worry about?

I have six guinea eggs and nine chicken eggs in my incubator and today is day five. I candled all the guinea eggs and a few of the chicken eggs. All the chicken eggs I looked at look good. Veining showed on all the ones I candled. Those are collected daily and I know they are fertile so no...

Found this rather pointy egg in the nest box alongside normal looking chicken eggs. For a moment, I thought it might be a guinea egg but when I cracked it, the shell was fairly thin like a chicken egg. As far as I know, guinea eggs are supposed to be thick-shelled. It also was slightly thick...

I have our fodder system almost set up. I have the water tubing currently set up so that each tray has its own individual water tube (we also plan on adding another level when we need more fodder), but I was wondering if that will be putting too much water on the lower levels. Since the trays...

We moved from our farm in California about 5 months ago and the last of our broilers were slaughtered and sold about a month before our move. It's been pretty nice not having 400 or so chickens to care for every day and slaughtering, packaging, and selling to do every couple weeks. We have a...