raising-ducklings

Hatching Duck Eggs: Can Chickens Hatch Ducks?
April 6, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat, Poultry 101

My experience hatching duck eggs led me to ask: Will chickens foster eggs from another species and raise them? The answer was, absolutely!

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What Do You Feed Baby Ducks for Proper Growth?
March 24, 2022 · · Feed & Health, Poultry 101

If you’ve decided ducklings will find their way to your home from the feed store or the hatchery in the new year, then you are probably wondering what do you feed baby ducks for proper growth?

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How to Care for Ducklings
January 18, 2022 · · Ducks, Kids' Corner, Poultry 101

Learning how to care for ducklings isn’t the same as caring for chicks. Read on to discover the differences in these fun water fowl.

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6 Easy Chick Brooder Ideas
February 24, 2021 · · Coops

Need some quick and easy chick brooder ideas? When you first bring your new baby chicks or ducklings home or hatch out some eggs, you will need a place that the babies can call home.

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Four Threatened and Rare Duck Breeds
May 17, 2020 · · Ducks, Poultry 101

Consider adding rare duck breeds, including Magpie, Saxony, Silver Appleyard, and Buff or Orpington Ducks, to your flock or devoting your farm to help increase biodiversity.

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Raising Ducklings Leads To Combining Flocks

If there’s one thing most waterfowl experts agree on when discussing raising ducklings and how to introduce ducklings to older ducks, it might be this: AIEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Chick and Duckling Imprinting
March 10, 2020 · · Ducks, Poultry 101

Chick and duckling imprinting has important psychological effects on the individual bird and the flock, so it is important to get it right from the start.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks in Suburbia
March 14, 2019 · · Ducks, Poultry 101

Ducks can be charming companions in suburban backyards. Check out this beginner’s guide to keeping ducks in suburbia.

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