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I've bought poults from local sellers and from hatcheries and have noticed a huge difference. When buying locally, I've never had a single turkey poult to die. However, I've bought from hatcheries on two occasions and had large losses each time. I got 19 poults (royal palm and bourbon reds) from...

I recently ordered the Genesis 1588 incubator (heard nothing but good things about it) and a 1611 egg turner from Cutler Supply. My buff orpington ducks are laying like crazy and I am hoping to hatch some ducklings this summer. While browsing the web, I came across someone saying that duck eggs...

I bought 10 guinea keets from a farmer last Friday and later noticed one of them was constantly trembling. Now it is starting to stumble around when it walks. After reading several disease lists, I'm fairly confident that it has avian encephalomyelitis. Now I'm uncertain what to do with the...

On the 29th of April, I received my order of 10 bourbon red turkeys from Ideal Poultry. Two of them arrived dead and another died soon after. I just chalked it up to shipping stress and called for my refund. Today, however, I picked up one of my poults and a large bubble of clear fluid came out...

Two of my muscovy ducks starting laying late last month. I had a nest for each of them -- 2 old tires placed on opposite walls of the coop. The first duck went broody and started sitting with 12 eggs, which is good. However, I'm not so sure the second one will sit this year. When the 1st...

Today, one of my muscovies finally laid an egg. The bad part is that all the other hens want to make the 2 nest boxes their hangouts. One of the nest boxes became so filled with poo that I removed it, wiped it out and replaced all the hay. I relocated the worst two ducks; they'd just sit...

Since spring has finally arrived and it's my first year of keeping muscovies, I'm not sure when I should start seeing eggs. Right now, the temperature mostly stays in the 60s. My coop contains 3 hens and 1 drake. Should they already be laying by now?

About a year ago, I got into keeping poison dart frogs. Their beautiful colors and active behavior keep me hooked:

For some reason, I just happened to think about some of the cheap people I've come across while selling poultry. I once had a guy come to my house and express interest in my "Easter egg chickens." When I said I'd sell him some for $5 each he was like "I could buy a "big chicken from the...

Since the 3 escaped muscovy hens have settled on my pond and I have 2 in a pen, I have to rotate the drake between the two locations for them all to breed. For how long can a muscovy hen produce fertile eggs from one breeding? Also, my drake seems to be a meat production strain -- solid white...

Since my domesticated ducks don't get to run loose and hunt bugs, I often bring the bugs to them. I keep a few pieces of wood beside my coop and they become filled with pill bugs on a regular basis. I take a piece into the coop, shake the bugs off and the ducks go absolutely love it. After a...

I live the the state of NC. The mild winters here are great for keeping poultry! On the introduction board, I noticed that this board has quite a few North Carolinians.

I've always enjoyed keeping poultry and have kept many types of chickens over the years. More recently, I've taken an interest in ducks. I currently have 6 Swede ducks, 6 buff orpington ducks and 3 muscovies (6 if you count the 3 that escaped and constantly fly between neighborhood ponds).

Several months ago, I bought 3 muscovy hens and a drake. Not long after, we had a pretty heavy snow and part of the roof collapsed on my duck coop. As a result, the 3 hens flew away (the drake was too fat). I just assumed that they were gone for good and bought 2 more hens to replace them. A...