Recent content by kirstie

Their pasture is about 50'x120' and then their section of the barn is 12'x12' but they all sit in one corner all the time lol! I was wondering if I needed to home them in the barn before they were in the pasture.

Ok so it's been an interesting week with our new ducks.... Ok first we got 5 ducks (2 buffs, 1 fawn runner, 1 pekin and a Cayuga male), well our son got attached to Cayuga and named him. Of course he was eaten like 2 days later. I promised my son I would get him another one so I found some...

They don't sleep in the house. These chickens are not tame they are seriously wild. They sleep in blackberry bushes and perch on our permeated fence around the property. Their wings are clipped they literally climb fences. And you can't get anywhere near them. Even at night you can't sneak up on...

Ok so update...we have caught one haha! My husband (who is extremely physically fit he's been military for 6 years) chased her down and after something I seriously should have video taped for Americas funniest home videos. It was seriously hysterical and we have her in our 8'x3'x3' brooder...

We seriously can't grab them off the fence. They see us coming even at night. If we get within 5 ft of them they take off. Our 3 year old calls them the road runners if that gives you an idea lol! We have been setting critter traps to catch them to put them back in the pasture. I like the hot...

Thank you all! Yes they perch on the top of the fence at night! All the others go in the hen house but they stay out. And they are SO fast once they're out it's practically impossible to catch them! We used to have a small covered coop but now we are in it for production so we turned one of our...

Ok so I have 35 birds in a huge fenced in pasture. We have about 5 brown leghorns that WILL NOT stay in the pasture they fly or climb the fence (their wings are clipped). It's only the leghorns the amerauncanas and rhode islands stay in just fine. It is 5' fencing. They keep getting into my...

Ok so it started late summer about the last week in August, I have 17 egg layers and was getting about a dozen a day since January. Then all of a sudden I start getting ONE a day! I live in Northern California and it is pretty cold at night right now but it doesnt get too hot in the summers or...

Thank you all for your feed back! I was moving them to their new pen and listened closely to their quacks! The yellow billed one is definitely a drake along with one other and 3 are ducks! Seems like good numbers to me!

I have 5 Welsh Harlequin Ducklings that are going on 9 weeks and I am dying to know if they are drakes or ducks! This is my first time raising them so I'm definitely in the learning stages still. At first I thought I had one drake (with the yellow beak) and 4 ducks but as they are feathering out...

The coop is 4x8 ft and 5 ft tall and the run is 16x8 and 6 1/2 ft tall.

Ok so I started out with 12 chicks this spring and SOMEHOW we have attained 5 more! we got given 2 little Hamburgs that were laying wonderfully almost an egg from each every day and then I did an addition to their run and they stopped laying i figured due to stress from the 2 days of...

Ok, so I have 14 chickens 1 roo and 13 hens, 2 of them are about a year old and laying, and roosting normally, and the other 12 are only 12-16 weeks old. The 12 younger ones are ALL sleeping in 3 of their nest boxes. Their coop is an A frame and we have it set up so their boxes line the floor...