The Poultry Keeper

debcat · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: got one

I've got a healthy not so litle aylesbury duckling Very Happy

How it fitted in the egg is amazing.
The other one is stil wobbling
I'm going to have to but a digital camera
Debs

poultry poofs · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:

Conratulations

we ended up buying a digital camera too...these chicks have a lot to answer for

Gina · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 471 Location: Kent

Congratulations!....need to see pics - do you know anyone with a camera that could take a pic for you?

Also can you or anyone tell me when chicks hatch they have a eggtooth to break the shell - what do ducklings have?

Knobby · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:06 am Post subject:

before i had chickens my hard drive was full of porn (joke) now its full of chicken pics ! Arrgghh....whats happnin to me !

mojo · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: knobby

knobby you are getting more human every day thats whats happening its called getting the aaaaah factor.....are duckys all wet when born....have they a egg tooth,,,,..do they change colour as they dry...........can i have apiccy please.......mojo

jaydee67 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

Yes - more info! I want to knwo all about baby duckies too - the school is going to try hatching some for me! Well actually as part of sex ed. but I get to keep the duckies! Very Happy

debcat · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

I've ordered one from Amazon, used the link on here.
Ducks do have an egg tooth, it will be white when it's grown but yellow at the moment, I'm not sure when they change colour.
They grow alot quicker than chicks, I have 2 three week olds as well and they are enormous.
It's in with the chicks at the moment.
Debs

Knobby · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject:

Do ducks have a "pecking order" i.e. can they be as nasty as chickens ?

debcat · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

mine aren't, not the ducks anyway, drakes fight the same as roos

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

No pecking order...just don't try to seperate! They go into a tail spin and the noise can be deafening!!! Shocked

The drakes usually smart off to one another, but I have never seen mine actually have a go at it.

My little guys are HUGE already! They are about the size of a bantam hen right now!!!! Shocked

And they are only about 3 weeks old. Cute little tail feathers are starting finally.

Gina · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 471 Location: Kent

Pics please, Pics please!

debcat · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

What sort are yours again Deb?
My bigger ones are pekins they must be about the same size as yours

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

All the feed store had left. Laughing

5 Pekins and 1 buff.

poultry poofs · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

They do normally all get along ......until the mating season!!! then its a free for all for violence and silliness.
Our boys are constantly harassing the females for, you know what, often two on one and they get very carried away so they can kill the females inadvertently. We had to rescue one cambell duck from being totally submerged in a mud pool by too amorous males.
Wee g had 2 of his female call ducks drowned in the pond by males trying to mate them and they just would not give up despite all the shooing and throwing of sticks to get them to leave them alone.
They finally did when they had had their fun and the two ducks had drowned.
Our boys forget their limitations too and are often trying to mount the brecon buff goose -3 times the size of them!!,she gets really fed up and is so timid she won't stand up to them she just runs away when they get on hotly pusued by these hot heads.
But apart from that they all get on great and are inseperable and all sleep in the same shed at night....with the turkeys too...its a big shed and they are all quite happy.