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    Maran or cross

    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? :(
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    Chicken breeding project.

    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...
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    What age to retire breeding ducks?

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

    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...
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    duck down

    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...
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    duck with bumble foot?

    One of ducks has a swollen toe. I didn't realize how rough her mate was being until she started limping, he has since become dinner, but her foot just keeps getting worse. The trouble is I don't know how to catch her without upsetting my broody duck since they're in the same pen and they all...
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    More ducklings and pics lol.

    I candled my duck eggs, 8 of them, a few days ago. Two were rotten, four more were just duds, and two looked like maybe they had embryo shadows. All but one of the six culls were not fertile to begin with including the two rots, the one that was fertile had no growth at all so I think I must...
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    incubator humidity?

    Hi, I'm new here, and new to hatching eggs. I had hoped not to have to but a fox scared one of my ducks off of her nest (it jumped on the roof but never managed to get inside the fence, the opening of the nest box leads into the pen but the box itself is outside the pen). I rigged up a...
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