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  1. S

    Broody Duck, can I move her nest?

    I noticed that my two Swedish Blues have been ‘missing’ from the rest of the flock when I let them out the past two or three mornings. Eventually they reappear outside, so I wasn’t too concerned. Yesterday I had the day off from work so I had more time to investigate. Both Swedish Blues were in...
    • Shoch
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    • brooding ducks eggs hatching nesting swedish blue duck
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. Cyprus

    Brooding: Inside or Outside?

    Do you prefer to brood your chicks inside a house or outside? Why? I'm planning on breeding this year, and traditionally we have always brooded inside our home. But we've had more than our fair share of consecutive months with chickens in the house and don't really want to spend 2+ more months...
  3. Dfarago

    Moving broody duck

    I am a first time duck owner and still new to tending to small farm animals. My Muscovy has been diligently incubating her eggs like a good mamma. But now it’s about time to move her into a separate enclosure. The enclosure she is currently in now contains the drake and three other females. And...
    • Dfarago
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    • brooder brooding brooding ducklings duck eggs eggs about to hatch enclosure enclosures muscovey ducklings muscovies
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    • Forum: Where am I? Where are you!
  4. Dfarago

    Muscovy duck surrogacy

    I have four female Muscovy ducks and one male. One of my females has laid and is brooding. She will be moved into a separate enclosure with her eggs as soon as it is built (which should be in a few days). But now another female has also started laying. Can I give the eggs to the already...
    • Dfarago
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    • brood brooding brooding ducklings ducks eggs eggs about to hatch incubate laying muscovey ducklings muscovies
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  5. HappyChickens1245

    My chicken could be brooding

    hello BYC, I come to your aid again for my cuckoo maran. She is 2 years old and we got her 2 months ago. She has been fine we let our chickens free range around our backyard. She’s been brooding for almost a week and hasn’t moved out of one corner of the coop. Is it brooding? Is there something...
  6. Chelsea-85

    Very Early Broody Young Hen (Help needed)

    Hi all, I have a 16 weeks old white young hen; she has laid 11 eggs since she started laying. This early morning when I wanted to get the new laid egg in the nesting box, she pecked at me many times and seemed really angry and aggressive. Is it possible to such a young hen to go broody so soon...
  7. chicken_nugget

    Help! I have 4 brooding hens and no where to put them.

    First of all, NONE of my chickens have ever slept in their $200 handmade coop me and my dad made. When they were in the run, they'd perched OUTSIDE at night on a piece of wood that we ran through the fence. :hmm I eventually opened the gate, and they stopped going in. Fine...so they're all...
  8. Lavender Wraps

    My wonderful flock

    I have both layers and Bantams. Most are coming out of molt now. My American Anaconda has the worst molt. She was all pin feathers, looked terrible. They feather out quite quickly. I may bring them back into laying by using a light that has to be in the sun during the day and put inside at...
  9. I

    What is brooding? (And what is a duck brooder?)

    As the title implies, I'm not too sure what duck brooding is. I've seen a lot of Youtube videos where the owners have brooders for their ducklings and as I'm thinking about getting myself a pair of Pekin ducklings, I would love to know. I'm confused because I thought I would just need to buy a...
    • Isindu
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    • brooder brooder box brooding duckling ducks
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    • Forum: Ducks
  10. jackoeVogel23

    Is my duck egg bound or brooding?

    i have 1 and a half year old pekins. I get an egg a day from each of them, all year round! They are very consistent except a few hick ups here and there. I noticed my one stopped laying about 3 or 4 days ago. I always see her in her nest, but never an egg. She goes back and forth to her nest in...
    • jackoeVogel23
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    • brooding ducks egg binding egg binding? egg bound egg laying egg laying age pekin
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: Ducks
  11. Chickycammy

    Brooding Barred Rock hen attacking rooster. Why?

    I have my first ever brooding hen in my flock, she's a 2-year-old Barred Rock and she has 7 healthy and alive 12-day old eggs. She's had no problem with me taking the eggs out to candle them (though, I've only done this twice so not to upset her much) and she's still doing well eating and...
  12. Nats Chickens

    Australorps!

    Hi guys, I was thinking if my Dad will let me that the next time my hen goes broody (She does it a LOT) I could get some fertile Australorp eggs from a friend and hatch some breeding stock! Can you raise BBS Australorps with just ordinary show quality Australorps? Or do you need special BBS...
  13. I Like Ducks

    Brooding Help!

    So I have three mallard ducks, and, I have read a lot about brooding. It has really hot outside so I don't want to put a heat lamp by them but I did put a wool hat in their bed. I also have water they can walk in and out of. Is this enough. Is it necessary for them to have a heat lamp?
    • I Like Ducks
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    • baby birds bedding brooding ducklings ducks feed mallard duck mallard duckling
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    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Robertrayklein2

    Brooding help needed

    Just hatched my first batch of Corturnix hatch was ok could have been better... 32 of 65 hatched. 10 more practically hatched but expired after breaking big holes in the shell.... But now lost another dozen to leg issues in a week in the brooder. I think shells may have been to thick from...
  15. Barb Root Hinkkanen

    Lucy is MIA

    Our pretty girl, Lucy, a very happy RIR has gone missing. Her sister is still here. I feel pretty certain she is brooding somewhere. She did it once before, but, right by the house under a bush, so I was able to find her. She has been missing now for three days. We have sent out three search...
  16. Tarp

    Help...We’re having babies!

    We live in Savannah GA and when We bought our home 5 years ago, there were around 10 wild white crested ducks in our pond. Now, there are only 5 and one has laid 9 eggs under our utility trailer. We noticed the eggs probably 3-4 weeks ago but no mom was sitting on them. Several days later we...
    • Tarp
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    • brooding crested ducks
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    • Forum: Ducks
  17. Tarp

    Hi, new to the group and are expecting babies!

    We live in Savannah GA and when We bought our home 5 years ago, there were around 10 wild white crested ducks in our pond. Now, there are only 5 and one has laid 9 eggs under our utility trailer. We noticed the eggs probably 3-4 weeks ago but no mom was sitting on them. Several days later we...
  18. Breemae123

    Muscovy females sharing care of ducklings?

    We had 4 ducklings hatch a little over a week ago and when they started moving around they kept bugging their aunt. She eventually completely abandoned her nest and we lost all of her eggs. She started following her sister’s ducklings around and she acts like a mother to them. Both the mother of...
    • Breemae123
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    • breeding ducks brooding duckling ducklings with mama
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    • Forum: Ducks
  19. Breemae123

    Anyone else have ducklings sit on eggs?

    My ducklings won’t leave their aunts alone. They keep going and sitting with them and today she got up to bathe and they were sitting on the eggs. I’m thinking it’s for warmth? It’s been around 80 degrees here. Has anyone else every had ducklings do this?
    • Breemae123
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    • brooding ducklings
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    • Forum: Ducks
  20. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Eye color?

    :jumpy:celebrate5 out of my 6 incubated eggs hatched yesterday and all babies are doing great. YAY! But I was wondering, will their eye color change? They’re dark brown right now and I was wondering if they’ll stay the same or turn yellow? Just a curious question. :) :wee
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