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Hey everyone. My DH has wanted ducks for a while now. By coincidence, a friend has to get rid of her 4 Welsh Harlequin ducks. So we are going to take them. So give me your best pointers and tips on Ducks. My first question being? Can I feed my ducks chicken layer food? They will also be...

I am just so disappointed and frustrated. We bought that expensive door opener only to find out it only lifts a one pound door. So we make a door out of plexiglass. Fine. We go out of town this weekend and my neighbor was coming by on Friday and Saturday to check on the water and food. Fine...

I have two Black Copper Maran Roosters that I would like to find homes for. They are gentle and have been handled by my kids. Local pick in the Kansas City area only. I just have a small flock but I got these birds from a BYC member that has great birds. I can give more specific information in...

I would like some advice on this chick. Do you think this is a deformity? Do you think his/her feathers will grow back later in life (like when it moults)? Is this something common with a name? Oh it might be helpful to add that this chick is approximately 2-3 weeks old. I have had them for...

I was thinking he is just a EE but heavy on the Ameruacana traits, now I am not sure. He does have slate legs with white on the underside. I know the red/brown can be an appropriate color but not sure about the tail being the green color. He is a very handsome and gentle fellow.

So I currently have 4 females and 3 males. I have a cinnamon queen type mix, a "easter egger" she isn't really though. Her feathers are kind of an easter egger color mix but she has a straight comb and only a tiny bit of green to her legs. She lays a brown egg, but a nice BIG egg and lays...

We will be gone for a week (7 days) during September. The weather might be hot or it might be cool. We won't know till it gets here. It is Missouri so it could be 90 on day and 70 the next. Anywhoo.... We will have someone come check on them at least a couple times during that week. My...

So last weekend we had a coon (assuming) break in through a small weak spot in our chicken tractor. It killed 5 out of 10 meat birds. Ripped the heads, left the bodies, messed with the food bins. Typical Raccoon M.O. We went ahead and processed the remaining meat birds before the coon could...

I am so aggravated. I got a new Polish. I put him in with the other 3 I have (1 maran, 1 EE and 1 other Polish). They are all the same age about 8-9 weeks, same size more or less, etc.. I expected the regular pecking order stuff. He quickly found a space in the coop he could hide from the...

We are new to this and bought dual purpose breeds instead of Cornish X. Oh well, it hasn't been a big deal but I thought they were looking big. We butchered one this weekend and he was tiny. How many weeks or months do they take? Second, my mom thought they are not putting on weight as...

I have 3 new chicks. Approximately 8 weeks old, i just bought them. They have been in together since Monday and everything has been fine. They were fine last night. This morning we go out to play with/free range them and the polish has a bloody red spot with feathers missing and pecked off. It...

You all have me chicken crazy. LOL. I got three new chicks today. They haven't been officially sexed yet, so we got the ones we thought looked like they had the best chance of being girls. We need egg layers. All are approximately 8 weeks old. Polish - is there any way to tell on a polish...

I bought all these chickens for meat chickens. I was going to get some layers later. However, turns out I have dual purpose chickens and it is taking them much longer to get big enough for meat chickens. Guess that is what I get for trusting the lady at Orschelns when she told me they would be...

Hi all. I found this forum when looking for chicken breeds. I am a homeschooling, homesteading mom from Missouri. We have our first batch of chickens and it is great fun. We just finish making our first chicken tractor. Well, finished is not quite the word for it. It is functioning but we are...