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Bad news yet again the last duckling egg that pipped has started zipping and our mama hen decided to peck it therefore pecking it's poor little bill almost off! She hatched out three duck eggs successfully but this last one she's decided to hurt! It was bleeding quite a bit. It was primarily on...

I went outside earlier to check on my flock like I always do and I notice my black duckling laying on the ground while all the others avoided me so I picked him up and found a large gash in his leg! The veterinarian in me kicked in and I set him in one of our closed off broody boxes, ran to grab...

My family and I (more I than my family) are interested in getting a rooster for our girls. We have 8 amazing beautiful hens and we'd love give them a man and to let them be mamas! But, that means having a rooster, and my husband is deathly afraid of them and he loves chicken noodle soup! So I've...

This is my family and I's first year letting one of our broody hens hatch duck eggs! She has shown true dedication to sitting on eggs (even sitting on nothing!) so we know she'd make an excellent mother! But us, not so much. I've tried researching what precautions we should take and a timeline...

One of our four hens suddenly today has an odd white film on her pupil. She is a blue laced red wyandotte and she will be a year old in May. She has been an extremely healthy and productive hen, and this eye problem doesn't seem to affect her at all. But it is worrying my family and I. The...

My family and I live on a large farm and we currently have three happy and loving Orpington ducks and we are desperately searching for some show quality or close to show quality Welsh Harlequin ducks. They will be used only for show and egg production. We live in Fort Collins, Colorado and for...

We bought these ducks back in late May, and I started a thread asking for help in determining if they were Welsh Harlequins, but they were just too young to tell. Now they're almost three months old and I am still unsure as to whether they are Welsh Harlequins. We bought specifically Welsh...

My family ordered a trio of Welsh Harlequins from a feed store, and we absolutely adore them. However, we're not too sure they are the type we ordered. We specifically ordered Welsh Harlequins because of their temperament and excellent laying capabilities and we don't want to raise ducklings...