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At what age will ducks start laying eggs?

I've lost a couple and I have a sort of demand for eggs at work. Just wondering when my young ones will start laying

So I have a somewhat complicated situation. I have 23 3 week old chicks in a brooder. They are beginning to get a slight bit cramped and within a week or so I'm going to need to give them new accommodations. I also have 2 Broody hens raising 4 about a week old chicks in my coop with possibly a...

Any help will be appreciated!

I got 6 chicks from tractor supply yesterday. One is very lethargic. Constantly sleeping, falls asleep while standing. Doesn't seem to want to eat. I did just get it to drink quite a bit of water with electrolytes so maybe that's a start. Do I need to separate it? Try to feed it? Any other...

Hello all! I picked up 4 ducklings yesterday from tractor supply. I'm new to raising ducks and I've been doing lots of reading. I've decided to add brewers yeast to the food (unmedicated chick starter) by sprinkling some on top. I just don't know what brand to get. Their seems to be so many...

I started out with chickens last year. I plan on adding about 6 chickens to my flock, which I will put in a brooder. I also have a broody Copper Maran hen sitting on 9 eggs in the nest box inside the coop. I've decided that I enjoy the chickens so much that I want to add a small flock of...

So I let my chickens out of the coop to free range all day. At night they used to go back in the coop to roost and I would close them up to keep them safe. Now for the past few weeks, they elect to roose in the huge live oaks in my backyard. I literally have to catch them before they fly up or...

Okay maybe not. I live in southeast Texas. We had a norther blow in this morning. The lows should be in the mid to upper 50's the next 2 nights. I have 4 baby chicks from 2-4 weeks old that I'm letting the hen raise. They stay in the coop. My question is... Is the hen's warmth enough or should...

I have 3 new baby chicks possibly a few more on the way. I'm letting the broody hen raise them. I have a large enclosed coop and run that the mom and chicks stay in. In the evening I open the coop to let my roo and other 5 hens in to roost in the coop. Let them out in the morning but mom and the...

The title says it all! I want to use the poop for fertilizer but I don't have the slightest idea how to go about this. Is there something else that needs to be done? How can I store it? Any help would be appreciated!!!

I'm just a few weeks in to this raising chickens things. I have 1 rooster and 5 hens, all bandie/copper muran mix. They've started scratching all of their food out onto the ground. The still eat it but I will fill my 7 lb hanging feeder and have to fill it again in 2 days. Is this normal? I even...

Do chickens lay less eggs when it is hot? Last week I got 5 hens and a rooster. The first 2 days we got 3 eggs each day. The outside temp was hovering around 90. Since then temps have gone to the mid to upper 90s and every day since last Friday they have only laid 2?

Then last friday a friend posted on facebook "free chickens"! I had thought about buying some chicks this spring, but I didn't have time to build a coop. Well, this past weekend I did. So now I have a coop and 6 half bandy half copper murans (or so I was told!) I'm already thinking about...