A friend recently took a few ducks in from some horse stalls and put them on his farm property. One female was being bred by a male pekin, rather aggressively as one can assume, and she barely got away. My friend found her tucked in tumbleweeds with crows around her trying to peck at her and...
Hey there, I have 8 girls and get 5-7 eggs each day. The girls were all born in April of this year. For the last three weeks I keep finding soft shelled eggs around my 1/2 acre yard, usually broken and most of the time there are two together, as if one hen is laying two eggs at a time, both soft...
Yesterday I thought I saw Blanche limp, but then didn’t see it again. We were away from home all day and this evening I noticed her limping quite a bit. I picked her up and checked the bottom of her feet, they look perfect. No bumble foot or injuries of any kind. Her legs appeared fine, and she...
I have four, 9 week old Cayugas and six, 6 week old Welsh Harlequins. 2 Cayugas are drakes. The remaining 8 ducks are girls.
The Cayugas have been outside for 2-3 weeks in their coop and run. We have a larger fenced off area within the greater back yard where they forage and we also have been...