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You can put duck eggs under a chicken and she'll raise the little ducklings right along with her own chicks, but you can't put chicken (guinea, peacock, turkey, pheasant, etc.) eggs under a duck (or goose) they'll raise the chicks like they were their own, but will be really puzzled about why some chicks can't swim, even in a little mud puddle.

Miles, for the mink, possums, skunks, weasels, and other small carnivores that are hard to block out of the coup, try juice cans with chicken blood in them. When you open the cans, cut the top like it was a pizza or a pie and bend the points all in a little. You can make canned mink this way A few mink, once they find the chicken pen, will keep coming every day or two until all the chickens (or other foul) are all gone. I had some neighbors who lost over a hundred chickens in a month. We got them set up on canning mink, and all that carnage came to an end after they caught four mink.

You know how sometimes on international flights, you see a bunch of folks who've hit the duty-free shop and are each toting about 4 giant colorful bags with liquor in them?

I saw something similar with duck eggs once. I was on a local Chinese flight from Qingdao (NE coast) to Guangzhou (SE coast). Sitting in the departure area by the gate, it looked like >50% of the Chinese people had several of these big cardboard boxes with handles - brightly colored, about as big as two shoeboxes. I asked one what they were, and they said "duck eggs".

Maybe something was lost in translation, because they were all individually packed and wrapped - maybe they were the special "100-year-old" pickled eggs or something. Either way, they were popular.

So will a duck hen lay for a long time like a chicken does, or is it 8 and done..?

If you keep them picked up, they will lay for a long time. Some of the breeds are bred for laying and will lay for a very long time if handled right. miles

There are a lot of benefits to the ducks and geese besides the eggs. The geese are grazers and have really cut down on the number of times I have to mow the orchard, and they do a good job of weeding the garden too.

The ducks are bug eating machines. They do a good job of keeping the garden pests down. Last winter we had hundreds of stink bugs in our firewood. I had to beat them off of just about every stick I brought. Since we've had the ducks I haven't seen more that a half dozen.

I'm looking forward to some roast duck and goose when our flock gets big enough too.

I've been surprised at how well the ducks and geese have done around our bee hives. We have ten hives now and the ducks and geese feed right up next to the hives. I haven't seen them trying to bother the bees, and the bees seem to tolerate them.

Yeah, we used to raise ducks. As you say, the eggs are more powerful in flavor- a bit much for some folks. I preferred them in scrambles with other stuff (pesto, cheese, chiles, etc) as their unadulterated flavor was stronger than I'd prefer.

The ducks themselves are tasty too- the breast meat tastes and looks like roast beef!

Wow. magic!

I have 1 hen duck (1drake too) mixed in with our free range chickens. She's a very consistent layer. 5 a week for about the last 4 months. I end up eating most of the duck eggs and we sell the free range chicken eggs.

If you want to see something funny, you should see our drake try to mount and breed the barred rocks we got as chicks at the same time we got him.

Barnyard porn.

LOL. He runs around behind her poking her in the back of the head trying to get her to submit. It's like a Benny Hill skit.

Ain't a thing in the world wrong with seagull eggs.