Recent content by Papaye

Hello. Since laying season started again, I have closely watched the differences in my Indian Runner duck's egg colours. Thus, I can confirm that : 1 - My 2 White ducks and my 1 Trout duck lay white eggs. 2 - My 2 Black ducks lay : - first : black eggs at the beginning of laying season -...

Hi! No big news to update to this day... Rocky and Apache still can not get along : Rocky keeps attacking Apache, and Apache is now much too a coward to even fight back. ...But at least, when he attacks Apache, it does not look like Rocky is trying to kill him...? So, I am still keeping them...

Hi! What were your crested ducks...? Bali, or some other breed? Would you have any picture to share...? When you say they mate without any problem... what about injuries because of their crest? Did you ever have any bad experience? Sadly, that's not what I have learned : even once they are...

Hello. God... I feel so bad... I just found the biggest one of my Light Dusky ducklings dead in its coop. Poor baby was crushed to death by its mama... throat-level!! I know it a major risk when we let hens raise babies... especially with big hens such as Brahmas... I was prepared to have...

Hello. After my first 12 Indian runner ducklings of 2024 - born between May 5th and May 7th... 10 new runners babies are now also born, this time between May 13th and May 14th. Here is a picture of some of them : (These poor, pretty babies are still shy, so I just can't take good enough...

Wow... they are sooooo pretty...!! (I know I already told so in the past, but I can not not say it again...) I never tire of looking at pictures of your ducks. They are amazing - they look like (what we are told are) galaxies...! (Or a mix of a starry night sky and colorless polar lights - why...

O-kay...!! I was pretty sure that was called Lavender... But I actually ALSO thought Lavender and Silver was the same! (Always good to learn something!) Of course I noticed! They are so beautiful... and not many pictures on these ones on the Internet, sadly! I want my Black runners to look...

Hi! Yes, they are! Especially the yellow one : yellow babies are the cutest, ah, ah! That's a shame you lost the pictures!!! I really would have loved to see them...!! (But even then, you can never post enough pictures of your ducks NOW!! Especially since yours are so beautiful...!!) To be...

Hello! My 12 first Indian Runner ducklings of this year are born between May 5th and May 7th...! ...Was a stressful experience, because for one : they were late. I had put their eggs on a broody Brahma hen on April 5th, and since last year, the ducklings were born at Day-25 or Day-26, I had...

Hi! Apache continues to attack, but weird thing is : boy bites me, but headbutts my father...! A rooster is not meant to headbutt, and if ever he does - or did - so when we don't see him... I think we just really found the reason of his (formerly) so bad condition...? I already thought a wound...

Hi! God... Rocky and the hens have gone in Apache's part of the garden yesterday afternoon...!! Don't know how, but one door used for the separation had been opened; so Rocky and the hens had had access to the whole garden... And by the time I realized it...? The two boys had already met. I...

Hi. Thank you for answering! Now I noticed his cut, I will keep watching Rocky - of course... I'm embarrassed to admit I don't even know how it could have happened, or even WHEN it happened - since I only was able to see the cut today because of a ray of sunshine (which is becoming rare)...

Hello. In the afternoon, I have noticed one of my roosters - Rocky - has a nostril cut in half...!! Here is a picture : I actually don't know if I have to do something for him : Rocky is not in pain, and his cut is not bloody or nothing... ...I am afraid he would hurt himself - because...

Hi. For now, Apache is still home, because I am being careful about who I give him to... (I don't trust some people to not cull him, then eat him...) He has been recovering really fast since he has been able to run again, and he also is still gaining weight - and I'm pretty sure this weight is...

Lonely, I don't know : Apache has one hen that visits him everyday in his part of the garden, and one that did until she decided she was going to be broody soon... And he also can see the other hens, and communicate with them; so... But frustated? Oh yeah he clearly is...! Spring is here, after...