I have Welch Harlequins. My hens go months without laying. When I first bought my 2 young hens & 1 drake,they were adults,and once they finally started laying,not long after, both went broody together laying over 40 eggs. I had no experience with ducks,but thought it would be cool to just let...
Donald I'd a very cute duck and takes excellent selfies:-) Sorry, I dont know if I canhelp you about his meds. I only give my ducks their feed, a bit of scratch & oyster shell on occasion now. I think they'll eat romaine lettuce though. I used to give it to mine,and they loved it.
We dehydrate, powder, vacuum seal and freeze our surplus eggs.Now they will keep at least five years, so no waste. They are good for camping, emergency food supplies,or anything you want to use them for. The local food bank is a great idea, too :-) I'm not sure if there are health laws here...
I tried using golf balls, but the chickens didn't seem to like them. So I changed to putting a couple of ping pong balls in each nest,and walla! It works. The chickens will lay in those boxes now, bc for some reason they like to lay their eggs where the other hens lay theirs:-) They might peck...
My first time was not good either. We let one female go broody. Big mistake bc both females I had at the time started laying in one nest. Of course I didn't know which egg belonged to whom. Together they laid like 27 eggs and both sat on them. We got 4 hatched out of them all, and 3 survived. I...