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What does your Appleyard duckling look like now??

We bought this duck ten weeks ago as a Cayuga. I have quite a few Cayugas. This girl is LITTLE. 3 pounds. My other Cayugas would accidentally smoosh her she’s so small. Here’s some pictures of her with my 4 week old Anconas and another with her with my other/real/not-Polly-pocket-sized...

I agree that the last egg looks good. Maybe 7-9 days? What kind of duck? When you photograph the egg while candling, try tapping the egg (on the camera screen, not the actual egg) to make the camera focus on it. Also it helps if you can wrap your hand around the base of the egg being candled to...

How have things come along?

Both the size of that one with the others and it’s baby picture says mallard. It was the one on the right in their baby picture? I would guess 1 Rouen and 1 Mallard. I can’t guess genders yet on them, and don’t be surprised if you see green on their heads either way- my girl Rouen had green on...

Thank you, the drake is terrified of the chickens for now (none of the other ducks are lol) but if that changes I have another coop just for them. Good I’m glad you hate it with these kinds of birds because I thought I was just dull 😂

I am excellent at judging my ducks’ genders but these are my first and only chickens, and I cannot figure this out! My husband says we have one girl and one boy but I think they look the same. They are about 3 months old and they are Ayam Cemani. tia 😃

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We are hatching Welsh Harlequin and Appleyard duck eggs. They are just going into lockdown today, day 25. One of the eggs has what I think may be a bruise on the pointed side. When I candle the egg, it has a normal air sac, good veins, and is moving. However, the other side also has what...

It does thank you!

Just got this cutie and a few more today from Estes Hatchery! We ordered last month and I’ll cross my fingers that they have some for you.

We got to pick up our ducklings from the post office this morning. I was thrilled to find all happy, noisy, spring-loaded babies when we opened the box. We ordered from a hatchery and it looks like the babies were packaged with great care. We ordered 5 anconas and 2 cayugas and received 6...