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Threatening to start raising specialty breeds on a larger scale. Wondering how to find out more, everything I found on Google was for meat birds and farm eggs but I'm thinking more along the lines of raising and selling silkies and polish... Not meat breeds.

I have 4 pullets that are a couple months old, fully feathered and just starting to make clucking sounds. I want to know when it will be ok to put them in with my grown silkie rooster. He had a hen but she was killed on Friday. He is all alone and I feel bad, but want to do what's best for the...

So far this year I only managed to buy 3 from TSC, I got 3 pekins, and of course 2 are boys. I still have 7 muscovies, and all but one of the girls are laying now. One went broody, and then abandoned the nest after a week, so those are in the bator now, I did notice and grab the cold eggs before...

I've been thinking of getting goats all summer, figured I'd wait till spring, so I have time to learn more and build a house and enclosure. And then hubby just told me his coworker was complaining, if his 2 goats get out one more time.... so hubby said if you're serious I'll take them. I have...

DH got me 2 pekins today. I wanted one female. He brings home this pair supposed to be a boy and girl. They seem to make the exact same sound, just one does it less often.

I have muscovies. My older duck and my 6 week olds get along great, so I've started letting them sleep in the duck house together. I have a nest box in there that my older one has been sleeping in at night since I gave it to her, but I notice some of the little ducks are sleeping in there too. I...

Is there any part of watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, or pumpkin (like leaves, vines, seeds) that ducks cannot have? I want to have my garden near the duck pen so I can take advantage of the yucky pool water when I drain it, but I know these plants can wander, and if they made it to the pen...

Any input for those who have been there? DH thinks we need to haul in dirt and level the area first, but I was thinking if it's sloped, it will drain well and not be such a muddy mess. It's not really bad, the one end is about 2 feet lower than the other end, if I use that area ducks will get a...

I have been reading old threads that the search dug up for me, and now I have even more questions than I started with. I was looking up grit and oyster shell, and I *think* I have some idea what I'm doing. Duckie wanders the gravel driveway and picks up little bits here and there, so I assume I...

So Duckie's house is nearly finished, and I am working on clearing the area to put it and build the run. But I am seriously worried about preds. We saw a fox out back last fall, and I occasionally get a skunk in the crawlspace under my house. Plus, dogs have also been an issue, relieving me of...

So all I really have experience with is my muscovy, and I obviously know how nice and quiet they are. I love quiet lol. I wonder, are some breeds noisier than others? Or are all mallard derived breeds about the same noise wise?

I have raised chickens in the past, but stopped after a dog killed the last one. It's been quite a few years now. So I kindof impulsively bought 2 ducklings 3 weeks ago. Looked them up, they are muscovies. One refused to eat when I got them home, and died the next day, so I have one, named...