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 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 😃
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...
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...
My husband and I got a few ducks last year for bug control on our property. Now we’re addicted to duck. We want to raise and let some ducks breed for several purposes: to better a few uncommon breeds to the best standard we can, to provide a happy and healthy home to some ducks that will...
Is there a way to tell roughly how old my Welsh Harlequin drake is? I’m not looking for exact age or anything, more like trying to tell if he’s young or old. I have a few reasons I’m wondering but mainly asking now because the dude has 6 girls chasing him around bobbing their heads at him and...
I posted a couple weeks ago about the issues one of our new ducklings was having. He or she…well, since it is clearly lucky to have survived we named it Lazarus and call it Lazzy so I’ll stick with that here. So to quickly recap the issues; we got 5 ducklings -not sure what kind- and 4 of them...
Hello- I’m hoping someone has seen something similar to this. I can’t find any information on a duckling that has all of these issues at once and I have never encountered ANY of these issues before so I am hoping for reassurances if I’m helping it right, and advice if I could help it better...