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Bugger! Guy who sold them to me was sure they were both hens. When the one that was younger by two weeks started getting a red comb (both are less than 8 weeks) I was so excited thinking I would be able to breed and sell blue marans. :( I do have a black copper maran though so maybe I can just...

Bought a couple of young blue marans but the hen has a beard and cheek puffs, breeder also raises easter eggers! Is there any chance she's pure or should I expect olive eggs? :(

Whew! That chicken predictor is complicated! And yet still misses a lot of the patterns you see in oddball crosses lol. Anyway, depending on how I entered it, it predicted either only white, lightly barred or mottled, which is basically what I'm after, or any range of solid blue, black, white...

I have a young white leghorn x barred rock roo with the most gorgeous cream colored ghost barring and white iridescence and THE best temperament ever. I plan on crossing him with a cream and blue hen with weak barring, she's a blue EE x barred rock cross. Any guesses what color the chicks will...

Thanks, that gives me an idea what to expect. :) I appreciate all the help I can get, we first timers need plenty of grandmotherly wisdom whatever the species lol ;)

That's it, what age should I retire my breeder ducks? The oldest I have now is two.

I have a cayuga female and a blue swedish female. I was set to add a pekin, kahki campbell cross female. The drake was a gold star. They're all good medium sized ducks and they produced some really beautifully colored ducklings. Since I use the feathers for art as well as stuffing I was...

I sent some of my ducks out to my mil place because the two adult females started laying again. I wanted the ducklings I just didn't have space for two batches at once. I sent the older ducklings (almost fully feathered) out to her farm an hour away to fatten up for butchering this fall. I...

There are 17 of them in this picture, I got a closer pic but you can't see all of them in it. No problems this time except for one that got stuck. This is the one that got stuck. I think it's egg was too small for it and it couldn't turn. It's legs are weak and it seems to be sort of club...

thanks, that gives me an idea at least. I have eight ducklings now (I may keep one or two) and two broods on the way, so maybe 15 to 20 more. My MIL has ducks but she doesn't have them penned (because they're so happy running around and swimming in the canal...:rolleyes:) so the neighbor dog...

Anybody know how much down you get on average from one duck? I want to use the feathers from my meat ducks for a down comforter but I'm not sure how many I'll need (ducks) before I start making the cover. Also what all do I need to do to the feathers before they go in? I searched the internet...

I have to disagree. I come from a family that was usually on welfare and my mom taught me how to cook and how to eat right on less, but one of my bosses came from a middle class income family and she and her room mates got scurvy the first year on their own because their mothers never taught...

My husband and I were out of work for two years recently, I got pregnant right before he got laid off and we lived with "friends". Two of them kicked us out, one after two weeks because my husband wasn't social enough for their taste and therefore must be a sociopathic, homicidal time bomb...

The other two late hatchers are on their way! One pipped this morning and the other is inner pipped today. It's so hard to wait! PITA has adopted my sons as his sibs. My two and a half year old got a kick out of being followed around by a little black fuzz bomb. However, my one year...

I think it depends on who you are to some extent. My hubby can eat one meal a day and be fine (if a little cranky) while I have to have at least three meals a day and a couple of snacks or I start to get physically ill and lose weight fast, I'll shed 3-4lb a day on one meal a day if I sit in my...

It's a khaki campbell, blue swedish cross. You can see its parents rears in the pic I took of the outdoor ducklings. It's the blue swedish ducks first clutch and she started setting before she was done laying, so I had to rescue a few late hatchers. Gonna have Cayuga, campbell crosses later...

This is PITA (Pain In The A**) First of the late hatch, four days late. 90% of the time PITA falls asleep almost instantly when I hold it. It has a little white collar I couldn't get a good pic of for the life of me. My incubator was too dry and this little one ended up needing a lot of...

The duck in question went broody the day after I posted the original in the same box as my other broody duck whose eggs were almost ready to hatch and I couldn't get to her without seriously stressing both ducks. I wasn't willing to lose an entire clutch for one duck. But the next time I saw...

My blue swedish broody duck hatched out her brood yesterday! She had them out today and the Cayuga who tried to go broody was out with them. There are six, five dark ones and one light one. Four of the dark ones have white wing tips lol, it's so cute! I'm so glad to see that my drake is as...

So two of the 15 I got from MIL were duds and 8 have quit on me, four very early. The last one to quit was alive and kicking just yesterday (day 13). Today, it was stuck against it's shell and not moving at all and the red color had gone from most of the egg. When I opened it up there were...