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A Quick Guide to Buying Ducks
Add to Favorites Whether you are expanding your duck flock, adding to your chicken flock or are brand new to backyard duck keeping, buying ducks is fairly straightforward, but there are a …
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Will a Broody Hen Adopt Ducklings?
Add to Favorites By Susie Kearley – When Helen Redfern moved from the city to the countryside, she started keeping ducks, then chickens. The ducks insisted on sleeping outdoors rather …
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Top 10 Duck Raising Questions Answered
Add to Favorites By Alina Jumabhoy from New Life on a Homestead – While ducks are relatively easy poultry to raise and care for, they do still have specific requirements that need to …
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How to Raise Ducklings
Add to Favorites Did you know that duck eggs are not only larger than chicken eggs, they’re also higher in fat, which means that your baked goods will raise higher …
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Hatching Duck Eggs: When Fertile Eggs Don’t Hatch
Add to Favorites I recently ventured into hatching duck eggs, an area that I had previously avoided ever since we started keeping ducks. Not only am I allowing Margarita, our …
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Incubating Duck Eggs with Chicken Eggs
Add to Favorites If you have already tried incubating chicken eggs, you know how addicting it can be. Have you tried incubating duck eggs? And can you incubate duck eggs …
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Hatching Duck Eggs
Add to Favorites Hatching duck eggs is an awe-inspiring experience. Since domestic duck breeds rarely go broody (i.e. sit on fertile eggs until they hatch), using an incubator is generally …
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Hatching Duck Eggs: Can Chickens Hatch Ducks?
Add to Favorites All of my experience hatching duck eggs led me to ask the question: Will chickens foster eggs from another species and raise them? The answer was, absolutely! …
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