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We live in Nebraska and I have three Welsh Harlequin ducks (all fully feathered.) I have a wooden coop with ventilation and used it last year during the cold months. I would make them go inside and lock the box at night (it has alfalfa hay as bedding with no water or food inside the actual box.)...

My one year old Welsh Harlequin female is in full molt mode :) She quit laying sometime late last week and I saw a couple feathers droppings so I figured the absence of eggs was due to molting. Now she is losing feathers like crazy; along with my nearly five month old ducklings who are also...

I have read and re-read the distinction between the silver and gold phase Welsh Harlequin drake and I still cannot tell if Teddy, who is 4 1/2 months old, is a gold or silver phase! His colored feathers on the side look green and then change to all different shades depending on the light. He...

I have a one year old Welsh Harlequin duck, and her two offspring, a drake and duck, both whom were hatched this April in an incubator. (Their father is no longer at our farm. He was too aggressive so he was returned to the farm where he was originally purchased.) The female offspring has...

We have three ducks: two nine week old Welsh Harlequins; male and female. I also have their mother, a year old Welsh Harlequin. When the male gets old enough, I am sure he will want to mate with his mother and sister. I will not be hatching out any more eggs (we are comfortable with three) BUT...

The Omaha World-Herald published this recently regarding the popularity of duck eggs. I just wanted to share. I thought it was pretty cool! There's some duck egg recipes included. http://www.omaha.com/article/20130605/LIVING/706059983/1696

I need an answer to a question that has been bugging me: Do I have a male or female Welsh Harlequin? We hatched these babies ourselves and according to beak color (which is 90 percent accurate) we should have two females; aptly named Thelma and Louise :) They were hatched April 20 and 21...

I had to remove our Welsh Harlequin drake from our small flock of females. We have two five-week old Welsh Harlequin females we incubated (he is the father) and ever since he was able to see them he has been highly aggressive. We have always supervised them when out foraging, but he had gotten...

Here are Thelma and Louise. They were hatched April 20 and 21, respectively. They both appeared to be female upon hatching (according to the color of their bills, which is quite accurate.) However, the darker colored one, Thelma, is not quacking yet while her day younger sister, Louise is...

Thelma and Louise: Thelma is on the left and Louise is on the right. Thelma was born last night and Louise was born at 4:30 a.m. this morning. BOTH GIRLS!!!!!! And they are healthy and strong. I got to witness both hatches. They are a riot; they are eating and drinking and doing...

I put out free choice crushed oyster shell for my duck (I feed them all flock feed so supplement with oyster shell) but it has been rainy and snowy here in Nebraska. The oyster shell is wet. I stir it up, but just wondering if that is ok to put out wet. I don't know what much about oyster shell...

We are incubating two Welsh Harlequin eggs and with 16 days left until hatch, I peeked in with a light scope and saw movement in both eggs! I am so darn excited!!!!!! I read you could see movement, but witnessing it just took me by surprise. I just had to share the news! I am very excited and...

My Welsh Harlequin, who was hatched last spring, just started laying for the first time ever about two weeks ago. She was laying about every other day (a couple times she would lay two days in a row) but for the past four days....NOTHING. She appears fine, is eating, drinking, moves fine with no...

Sometimes I feel guilty I don't let my two Welsh Harlequins roam freely enough. Last summer I let our Khaki Campbell drake and a buff duck roam freely. The duck got swooped by a hawk. Then just a couple months ago our precious Campbell drake got killed by a hawk only FIVE FEET from the enclosure...

Our female just started laying for the first time ever. Her shells on her eggs are nice and hard. I have never used oyster shell as a supplement and I give them flock feed not layer feed. Should I use oyster shell anyway or wait?

My Welsh Harlequin laid her second egg this morning and it was bigger than the first she laid the day before yesterday. She has made a "nest" in her duck box she shares with our WH drake. These are the only two ducks I have and they are locked up at night together in a duck box :) My question...

My Welsh Harlequin laid her first egg ever yesterday! The shell was nice and hard and it is so pretty! This morning when my husband checked she had not laid one. Is this normal for ducks to do that? Also, I want ducklings so should I leave the eggs in the duck house? She shares the box with...

I'm being impatient I know, but I am reading some of you are already getting eggs. I have a Welsh Harlequin female who was born last spring and has yet to lay her first egg. We live in Nebraska so I know the days are just beginning to get longer, thus making more daylight hours. I just have her...

My Welsh Harlequin pair appear to be getting along REALLY well. They mate several times a day. I observed them several times and here is what I see: They both start head bobbing, the female lays down, stretches out her neck and flattens her back and starts honking. The males mounts, holds on to...

Our male Khaki Campball was killed last week by a hawk. We miss him dearly as he was so gentle and nice. Our female WH was very attached to him and was very lonely. We replaced him with a Welsh Harlequin drake. The female Welsh Harlequin LOVES him (they have mated five times today that I have...