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Sometimes females will have the curly feather. Not commonly, but it can happen. Also, you can tell the gender by the quack. Females have the classic loud quack, males have a quite whispery quack. Youtube has some clips showing the difference. Do you have any females nearby? Male ducks...

You don't need to worry about a kiddie pool until the duckling is about 8 weeks old (when their oil glands start working and they can swim without becoming waterlogged), but their waterer needs to be deep enough to reach their nostrils so that they can rinse them out. For introductions, what I...

How many hens do you have? If you have enough hens, you could spilt them into two groups and have two coops and runs, then alternate who gets to free range.

I don't think TSC has their chicks are vaccinated for Marek's. You might be able to have a special order vaccinated.

Thank you, Sternrose.

I'm going to be getting four rex rabbits here in a few weeks, and I'm planning on colony raising them. The bucks will get their own run, and the does will get their own run. I have a few questions: 1: Will the bucks fight, and is it only if they see the does? Should the bucks' run be...

Hi, I will be getting rabbits in the near future, and I would like to colony raise them. Does anyone have pictures of setups? Thanks!

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Hello. Over the next months we will be relocating about six hours away (to Arkansas). We have 31 (3 are bantams) chickens, 5 and counting ducks, two geese, 3 goats, and of course, dogs and cats. I think the dogs, cats, and goats will be easy. But the bird hauling sounds like it will be, um...

Geese can be good garden birds, but do not lay many eggs, only 20-50 a year. However, the eggs are large, about equal to three chicken eggs. Some ganders may need more than one hen, but our geese are fine as a pair. Processing roosters can be hard, and if you cannot do it, you will likely...

So, can rabbits eat grass off of pasture? I've decided to put my future rabbits in movable tractors rather than hutches. I'll be flooring he runs, of course, but with 1-inch wire or something like that, where they can forage. Is run-of-the-mill wild grass good for them? Thanks.

We live in Texas, and the weather is super crotchety here in the spring and fall... I was curious as to how much wind a tall chicken coop made of hardy plank could withstand? Thanks!!!

Thanks! We will have to try the mustard trick. The strangest thing is that their eggs aren't enough for them. They harvest the duck eggs through 2" 4" fence by rolling them into the chicken pen.

Our flock of eight hens used to give us six-seven eggs a day. Now we get one-three eggs a day. It was a mystery until this morning our oldest hen was caught rolling a egg out of the duck pen. Later we found a broken duck egg with all the contents eaten. In the chicken pen. We think...

Bloody poop is a big sign of coccidiosis.