Recent content by Papaye
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Should i get ducks??
Hi. You can raise chickens and ducks together, but it would be best for them if they had separate shelters and runs... especially if you have drakes! They still could freerange together during the days, but if you buy drakes, you really should separate your ducks from your chickens in... -
Mites - feeling awful
Hi. I once temporarily brought a Wyandotte rooster home that was so infested by red mites he was, in fact, dying... Boy was then extremely lethargic, terribly skinny, and actually turning blind (and probably deaf too)... What I did : • FIRST : I washed him with soap in my shower; • NEXT : I...- Papaye
- Post #4
- Forum: Predators and Pests
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My rooster can’t crow
Hi. It is, in fact, not unusual for a rooster's crow to take months to sound right. You don't have to worry about it. Just wait patiently for your boy to train, correct his voice by himself.- Papaye
- Post #3
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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Fawn & White Runner x Black Swedish Ducklings
Hi. Which had to be really pretty, in my opinion! Had you looked at the feathers elsewhere on her body, to see if there were penciled ones...? Last year, I had got two Black Runners among my ducklings... and both of them had strips on their face in their juvenile plumage. Once I grabbed them... -
Fawn & White Runner x Black Swedish Ducklings
Hi. Your ducklings are very cute...!! Do you have only Mallards and Fawn and White Runners as drakes...? If so : black duckling should be a Mallard cross. If you breed a Mallard coloured drake with a Black duck - Bibbed or not -, 100% of the ducklings will be Black Bibbed. -
runner duck rainbow - color breeding project
Hi. Happy New Year to you too!! Good luck with your project! What colours do you plan to work on in 2026? (Do post pictures of your breeding groups when you can!!) -
Drake never fully completed his molt?
Hi. Could be several, actually : it would indeed be hard to see on a White colored drake; besides, I also own another Runner drake that I don't actually even know if his molting is currently delayed or not, given I just can't find pictures of similarly coloured drakes on the Internet... (If I... -
Drake never fully completed his molt?
Hi. That actually happens... I have re-homed my 3-years-old Trout coloured Indian Runner drake on December 9th, and boy had still not completed his molt then... ...not sure he will even do complete it before Spring? Sometimes, molts are delayed; and it is not always due to stress or any... -
3.5yr Pekin Female, lost half weight, suspected bone infection for 1+ year... what to do?
Hi. Perharps you should start by stopping going to the vet for now...? If you want to try a new approach instead, then go read this article : https://www.homeopathyforanimals.com/bumble-foot-chickens/ ...Good luck!! -
Drake living with bantam chickens?
Hi! Until next mating season, you don't have to worry about your ratio. In fact, if you don't take another drake, then even during mating season, you should not have to worry about it... In my experience, a 1-1 ratio works fine when drakes have no competition. Meaning that : if you have only...- Papaye
- Post #8
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Drake living with bantam chickens?
Hi. No : IF you keep duck hens for him, you don't have to get rid of your drake. What you need, instead, is to be prepared by : • using different shelters for your ducks and your chickens; • having a mean to separate your ducks from your chickens during mating season. ⚠ During mating season...- Papaye
- Post #3
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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My Welsh Harlequin x Khaki Campbell duck(ling)s. (very pic heavy)
Hi. Boy is too beautiful... girl too, but this boooooooooy... (His plumage colour is just perfect. We should make a breed of it!) I have to say : your threads are juste A.MA.ZING to read... So many details and pictures...!! (How do you even take so clear pictures? I'm impressed!) -
Questions on a Drake
Yes. You take the drake home, keep him separated from the girls until they are sexually mature - and so, ready to mate with him without being hurt... You do the "see but don't touch" method, so they can still become friends, even if they don't freerange together... and so the drake doesn't... -
Questions on a Drake
Hi. It is not that you actually "need" to quarantine a new bird - especially if it appears to be healthy, and if it comes from a flock that has no unhealthy bird... ...Nevertheless, you never know what the new bird may carry, so you would really do good by quarantining it for 1 month at least... -
Crazy Ducks
Nope, sorry : I have read and re-read your posts, but I don't see where you have precised that...? No problem here. It is weird for a duck hen to hurt a drake, especially one that mounts her... I do wonder what is going on here? ...I would guess it is due to hormones; or perharps your drake is...