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    New Baby Ducks on the Way - With Live Nest Cams

    Last year our flock was 8. We lost 3 to cars, 2 to a fox, and 1 to a coyote :(. Our remaining two (Our Cayuga and Mallard) settled in on nests a few weeks ago, and we have (as of last weekend) 17 viable babies! ALL the babies are mallards. The Cayuga (Ocho) had plenty of eggs, but non were...
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    Will Ducks thirst themselves? Won't get in pond!

    Duck Wizards: We have 7 female ducks that refuse to go in our 1/8 acre pond. My thought is that if we don't provide any water, they'll go in the pond eventually, or at least drink from the edge. Wife thinks they won't so we keep a small bin of fresh water so they can drink where they eat (about...
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    Ducklings on the way from Metzer Farms!

    Figured I'd create a thread to document our Metzer Farms order experience. We have 8 ducks (6 for us and 2 for a neighbor/friend) that will shipping this week, hopefully today! We are in Ohio, so sounds like they should be coming from the new Memphis location. 4/25: Ordered 6 Ducklings for...
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    Duckling Foot issue - Callus or bumblefoot or what?

    Hello Duck Experts! Our baby Khakis (6 of them) all are having a foot issue. They are 18 days old. here's a couple photos of the worst one. Any thoughts on if this is just calluses? everything i've looked at on bumblefoot doesn't look like this. Something else? It doesn't seem to bother...
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    Duck Egg Hatching Live Stream and Tracking!

    We've got 9 eggs ready to pop! These are babies from our favorite Ducky Peso. Live Stream here: You'll see time in incubator and status updates... These eggs seem to be preparing for an early hatch. We are 90% sure they are mallards -- but we have some khakis in the mix. All these eggs...
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    Identify the ducklings?!

    Lucking for an idea of what these darker ducklings are... The yellow ones are supposedly Pekin, which they look like to me. The Dark ones are a dark brown with black bill and feet.... They are tractor supply, not sure exactly what they are. Weren't sure if they cayugas (or are those darker?)...
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    First time Duck Egg Hatching advice needed....

    Hi there! We have 2 mallard eggs, and our best estimate is that today is day 25. We could easily be off by a day or two. Last night (10pm), noticed shadows in the air cell moving around (in both eggs), looks like no fluid left, egg is all dark other than the air cell! So i've stopped...
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