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When can ducklings go on a big pond?
In addition to stepping up from small to bigger pools, you can anchor, with rocks, a nylon pet playpen on the edge of you big pond. Watch 'em as predators might get thru. Nylon Playpen -
How many duck eggs did you get today?
3 today from 3 Muscovy hens. It's been 1 - 2 - 1 -2 a day for a while. Spats, I estimate has laid around 200 eggs this year. The other 2 around 175. Too many eggs to deal with, inconvenient to find nests and collect. They seem to be in a long molt stage. This is Lu-roy with a new nest on... -
Ducks laying too many eggs!!
This may be over simplified, but a feed formulated for layers, + niacin for ducks, would be foundational for well-formed eggs. Two a day, I didn't know that was possible! About forcing a molt, others will chime in yet I've been told to be consistent about collecting all their eggs daily. If... -
Pond help
The murkiness may be from your ducks tracking in lots of clay & dirt. Yet if you've a liner and the brown tint is not from clay particles, then you have an algae bloom at the end of its' cycle. With duck poop making the water fertile, did your water start off green then transition to brown... -
My "maybe temporary" pond, what do you think ?
Lovely. It's small enough to manage. If your liner is so that water doesn't leak, seems small enough to keep topped off with water hose? Warning; ponds maybe addicting to ducks :p -
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I don't know if Muscocy are ducks, geese, or chickens :D Spats laid 180 eggs this year.- Sosalty
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How many duck eggs did you get today?
0 at last! Then I read Ms Lydia that some of her ducks start up laying again in early fall after their molt. 2 of my ladies laid around 160+- eggs, and 1 around 180+- this yr. these Muscovy just turned 1yr old. Eee ho lay, it's not convenient to collect their eggs from their island, and a fat... -
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Well water
Ducks have adapted to many impurities from drinking water in natural environments. If the previous folks used the well for drinking and bathing, and there's nothing that's affected your ground water, good enough for ducks. Not that hard to get it tested. Inform whoever tests that you're not... -
How many duck eggs did you get today?
2 today from my 3 Muscovy. They are also molting. Maybe light at the end of the tunnel. -
The Ballista Bolt Gun for Stuning Poultry during culling
"Is the skull thickness of a duck decidingly thicker than a chicken? The manufacturer does have a larger more powerful device but I'm not sure it would be needed." I bought one and used it for the same reasons ( not comfortable with an axe) and hoped to humanely stun them before cutting. It was... -
How many duck eggs did you get today?
5 at 11am today since 7am yesterday from 3 Muscovy hens. Since last Thur, 6 days ago; 21 eggs. Question; do they at times lay more than 1 egg in 24 hrs? By mid-Jan, all 3 were laying daily, 1st 4 eggs discovered Jan 8th. So it's July 31 or 6 1/2 months of steady egg laying. Sure appears... -
Programmable automatic feeder
At 1st tried a big dog auto feeder, in duck coop, 'n had mixed success. It wouldn't reliably reprogram as the days shorten/lengthened. Settled on a coop auto door fixed on the face of a gravity feeder. I never found 1 that would open/close 1hr in the am and again in the pm. This 1 stays open... -
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How many duck eggs did you get today?
3 a day. There are 3 locations around the pond they lay eggs. They do take turns laying and sitting a few hrs on their nests.