That's what I did today when she flapped up jumped onto my arm and began to attack me. I thought she might have been afraid. They don't get overly spoiled, we do give them watermelon and different veggies as 'treats' beside their regular feed. We held them alot as chicks but Jack is a timid...
I will try chasing her off. I thought maybe Jacks behavior could be because she's being broody or becoming Broody. But she def only "bosses" me if its bossy behavior. I have heard ducks are suppose to be very docile this is why this current behavior is so weird for us.
My partner has corrected...
So Hi guys, this is a puzzling one about change in duck behavior. We have two muschovy ducks, and 4 mixed chickens (I rescued them from Henny Penny that was at my Kindy Program). About a month ago we moved houses. The new house has much better fencing, a huge garden with trees and flower bushes...
So we have two girls and I have asked about behaviours before but they are new too us our last Muscuovy was standoffish boy.
So my two girls often follow us into the house they very social they hear company will jump the gate into the house and run down the hall.
When I get home from work...
We have had our Muscovy ducks for 3 1/2 months. We had a Drake 3 years ago and now we have two girls. I love them I am not sure id I am adding helping.
Our girls when they seem me waggle their tales. They make a honking noise currently between a honk and squeak. They are also starting to...
Me too! Our Bog (black chicken m) comes down early makes no noise. We have a double level cage. It's almost finished we currently finish the extended run so currently we have a large dog run we attach to it but when the runs finished they be able to really go in and out as the please and the non...
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We collared Speckles out ISA Brown (sex link) rooster tonight. He's not as pleased but he seems to be doing well day 1 into day 2 with out the dominate rooster, still very gentle with the hens not overly rough with the hens. If the collar works well be able to keep him which...
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We had to take Mr Rooster to Hertiage Hen to drop him off today. We had gotten a complaint about his crowing which we new was possible. We still have speckles. They seemed really great, knowledge all their chickens were healthy looking and I felt much better about how honest he was...
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I am from the Brisbane Area is. Queensland and I am glad to see many different Aussies. I was tech American but I married my wife who's Aussie and I've been here 3 years ;)
We have a new flock and we could use some advice from locals on what we can do with our rooster. Even with his...
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My chicken story begins with a chicken and a duck. My wife widely also named Sarah had them when I moved to Australia with her. A old rescue Bantom and a mascovey duck. Sadly they were attacked by local drunk teens and their necks broken. We were both lost and so that was over 2 years...
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I have to say love BYC. I feel so connected. My family need some rooster advice. We have two in our flock in Brisbane Area, (the chicks were from a program) so we're going to keep both but our flock is too small and one of our roosters crows even with his collar which can cause...
Hello, I saw your post and while it from a while ago, I am hoping you could answer a question from me says it shows your from the Brisbane Area. We have a rooster, and we have tried to have it re-homed, as it just crowing to noisy even when we bring him inside at night. We had no luck and all...
I want to thank all of you guys for answering my questions.
I have one last question! We are attached to both and since they seem to be getting along would you recommend getting more hens? We only have 4 (since 2 are cockerels) and our yard can have up to 12 but we were thinking keeping both...
It took a while to get the placement correct. And he still does crow but it a lot softer were hoping this will let us keep him as there now laws but a nussiance issue where the neighbours could have it removed. Also he's very smart and get the girls to pull on it and then he's able to loosen it...
The program says the breeds they use are Australorp, New Hampshire Sussex, Black and White Leghorn, and Lohmanns
Do you think the two cockerels are different breeds?
Is it normal for the white cockerel to not seem bothered?
They have been raised together and we can clearly see he is dominant but this is our first flock and everything we have read says that with the speckled one crowing sometimes and trying to mate the White rooster shouldn't tolerate it...