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    When to assist duckling hatch?!

    This duckling stuck its beak out of the shell 21 hours ago and has not made any progress. The beak is still moving, indicating that it is still alive, but has not pushed its beak back into/further out of the shell. I have others hatching/pipped at the current moment, so I am not sure if I...
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    Duck Prolapse Vent – Can it Revert?

    My one year old Khaki Campbell hen laid an egg this morning, and after had a small prolapsed vent. I isolated her, and ran to the store to get Epsom salt. I came back, and it reverted itself. I don’t know a lot about prolapse vent, but will it come back out tomorrow when she lays? Any advice on...
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    When Can Chicks Go Outside?

    This year I got chicks earlier than usual. They are 7 weeks old, fully feathered (I have attached an image for reference), and I am wondering if they can go outside– without a heat source? I am from Minnesota, and our temperatures fluctuate a lot. Some nights it is 23° and others it is 38°...
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    Help!! Duck acting drunk with bright green stool

    I have a 1 year old Cayuga hen who is acting drunk and passing bright green stool. She is secluding herself from the others. She is very unsteady on her legs and is very wobbly. I don’t believe it is leg issues, any advice on what to do?
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    Duck Hens Picking on Drake

    I have 11 hens and two drakes. I recently got the drakes around two months ago. They alil incorporated together fine. I recently separated my breeding pens (1 drake to 4 hens) and my Khaki Campbell drake is getting chased and picked on by the 4 girls. They’ve never been this aggressive to him...
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    What is the Breed? Black Sex Link or Barred Rock?

    I ordered White Leghorn chicks from a hatchery, and this is what they sent me instead. I’m going between Black Sex Link and Barred Rock. What do you think the breed is? Hatchery won’t answer my email or phone calls.
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    Can a RAT kill a DUCK?

    I found my duck passed away this morning, she was not of laying age. The only wounds were to her back end, where the intestines (I think) were pulled out. She was the only duck killed out of my 9 other ducks. There was blood around the coop, like she was walking around after being attacked. I...
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    Duckling Pipped on Wrong Side!!!

    I have a duckling (day 28) that has pipped on the wrong side of the egg. I noticed it late last night, and this morning there was a little progress, but not much. Is there anything that I should do? Do I need to assist- if so, when? Do I just let it do its thing? I’ve never had it pip on the...
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    When to introduce chicks to flock?

    I have 24 12-week old Production Red Pullets that have been isolated and fenced off from my 40 1-year old hens for 6 weeks. When can I introduce the chicks to my flock? A while back, one of the chicks slipped out and my hens severely injured her. I am afraid that I have super mean adult hens and...
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    When to assist with duckling hatch?

    I have some eggs that pipped over 24 hours ago, but the spot they pipped seems to be drying up. Do I need to assist these hatches? I’m worried about the membrane drying up and them getting stuck inside. I can see them moving around inside the egg but it appears to be drying up. I only have 1...
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    Day 27 Duck Egg Turning Black

    I am incubating duck eggs. Today is day 27 and I have one that is starting to turn black and hasn’t externally pipped yet (my others have). On Day 25, it was moving around a lot in the egg (the egg was shaking in the incubator). So I thought everything was good. Do I open the incubator and take...
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    Mystic Onyx Chick Weirdly Colored?

    I just hatched purebred mystic onyx chicks, or Atleast I thought I did. I separated my purebred mystic onyx hens and mystic onyx rooster and collected their eggs. 2 of the eggs just hatched, and one of the chick has white on it. Is this common? Or somehow did I mix up the eggs? The other tan...
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    Egg Breeding Chart Questions

    I have starlight green Egger hens (green) with a mystic onyx rooster (light brown). I am trying to understand the genetics, if I were to put these in the incubator, would there be a 50/50 chance the offspring would lay green eggs? Any information is appreciated!
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    Mystic Onyx

    Are mystic onyx an auto-sexing breed? I thought I read somewhere that males will appear more orange colored as chicks where females will be all black.
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    Fertilized Egg?

    Is this egg fertilized? What should I be looking for if it’s not?
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    Hunched over ISA Brown

    I have a 10 month old ISA brown that I found today that just stands hunched with her tail down. She can stand, but after a while just lays down. I checked for lice/mites, foot injury, and everything seems okay and nothing out of the blue. I read up on egg bound so I gave her an Epsom salt bath...
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    Freshly Hatched Duckling Help!

    I am incubating duck eggs and I had one externally pip on day 26- I know this is an early hatch. Today is day 27, and within 24 hours no progress was made and I needed to assist the hatch. I was able to get the duckling out, the yolk was absorbed. I put it back into the incubator but now it just...
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    Duck Eggs Turning Black

    I am hatching duck eggs. It is day 26, and I have about 25-ish eggs in the incubator. Some of the eggs are turning into this dark color and I am worried about if they are duds and if they are going to explode. The incubator is in lockdown, so I cannot open it as I have one egg that has...
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    Ducklings and Adult Ducks

    I hatched Pekin ducklings 2 weeks ago from eggs not directly from my Pekins in my flock. The other day, I put my ducklings outside (it’s very warm where I am so temp was the same inside as it was outside). I have a little playhouse inside the coop, and I put them in there where nothing was going...
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    Clumsy Duckling and Eggs

    My duckling just hatched in the incubator - I have a couple of eggs left that are due to hatch. I noticed my duckling is VERY clumsy, which makes sense. But he’s ALL over the place. Falling and knocking stuff over constantly. This morning I saw two eggs had a crack (almost like a pip- but not...
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