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I just started raising ducks in my backyard. I feed them organic feed, but my local store only has mash feed. They don't eat like the way chicken do. My feeder cannot stop them wasting food. I saw quite a lot of feed dropping from their bill. Dose any one have suggestion how to stop or...

I have a 3 month old black coop marans. She started having milky white poop about two weeks ago, and her vent was out at that time. We tried many methods. Now her vent is OK, but still have milky white poop. Her appetite is good, and looks quite normal, except the milky poop. Can someone give me...

I currently have a black Cooper rooster and some hens. I am thing to add some more hens, so I can have different color eggs. Also if I hatch some chickens, I can still get different color eggs from the second generation. I am thinking to only keep one rooster. If I add some Easter egger and...

I recently bought some bovan brown hens and one rooster from a farm. I was thinking to hatch some chicken next year. However I was told that if hybrid breed hybrid, the offspring will not carry over the trait, and some hybrid cannot breed. I really want to hatch and raise chicken by my self...

There was a big storm last night in my area. My incubator stopped working for 3 hours due to the power failure. There are around 40 quails eggs and they are sitting there for 11, 8, 5 and 2 days respecitvely. I am wondering if they still survive without heating in 3 hours. Thank you.

This is my first year to raise quails. They are contrix quail. I have 10 hens and 3 roostors. They are seperated in 3 pens, 1 roo with 3/4 hens. They used to laying crazy in spring and ealry summer. While now, I only get 3 eggs every day. Any way I can do to encourage them laying more? Thannk you.

I have 6 Ameraucanas. Please help me define their gender. They are 2 months old now. Also, if anyone know where some of them are not bearded yet? Also, please tell me how to sex them, as I have some more in 1 month old. Thank you. Chick 1 Chick2 Chick3 Chick4 Chick 5...

I have 6 cornish X chicken which are raised with some Ameraucana chicken in the 3'X8' coop. Today I found the cornish feather is so messy. There is so many dirt on their feather. Also they don't have feather on their belly and the part around their vent and under their wings. However, my...

The ebay sellor put a runner eggs in the Muscovy eggs I bought. Now he/she is 8 weeks old and the only quack one in backyard. Please tell me its gender if you are familiar with runner. Thank you.

My ducks seem to like the clean water in their pool. Now they only swim in the pool when I change the water. While after 2 or 3 hours, the water get dirty and they don't want to jump in again. How often do you chang change the water in the pool? I don't want to get a big water bill in next month.

I went to my local store to see if they had some organic chicken feed today. Unfortunatelly, they don't. While the lady told me they had Nutrena products which was made from natural things. Actually I am very confused with nutural and organic. Any difference between these two? How is the nutrena...

I try to feed my birds more organic. While the organic feed is much more expensive than the feed I use currently. I checked my local store and find them have cracked corn and soy bean meal. The cracked corn is cheap. While the soy bean is only $2 higher for 50lb than the feed I am using. While...

I will go to pick up my cornish X chicken this afternoon. I try to raise them more organic. So I only buy the cracked corn and soy bean meal from the feed store. Can I only feed them these two feed, and what is the ration between them? Should I add oyster shell or vitamine too? Thank you.

I saved some clipped grass from my lawn and covered them on the dirt under my big pine tree. Now I got lots of earth worms in the dirt. I feed my ducks over 100 every day. They are crazy with the snacks. Chicken are curious with the worms, but they don't eat them. I cover the dirt about 2...

I took the picture for my new Ameraucana chicken. I was superised he was so confident, just like a super model.

I want to buy 5-6 cornish chicken. But most hatchery require to buy at least 15 for shipping. I don't have enough space for that many and our small family cannot consume them. Mypetchicken.com does not require that many, but the shipping fee is 35. No worth to do that. Dose any one know where I...

When I was a child, I saw the old people feed the ducks. They opened the ducks' beak and inserted the feed in. I am new to raise ducks for meat in my backyard. Do I need to do that to fast their weight?

I got some ameraucana from the hatching eggs. I would like keep the hens and slaughter the roosters. Before they can be sexed, (maybe 4 weeks old), how can I feed them to keep the balance between meat and laying birds. Now I feed them the mixed of game bird starter, cracked corn and soybean...

I have 6 Ameraucana chicks. They are 24 days old now. Is it too early to see their gender? Also, please tell me their future color? Actually I doubt some of them are EE, especially chick 5 and 6, instead of true Ameraucana. Chick 1: Chick 2: chick3 chick 4 chick5 chick 6

I bought some Ameraucana hatching eggs from the breeder listed in AMERAUCANA BREEDERS CLUB, 2011 BREEDERS DIRECTORY . However, after reading the treads about the pure AMERAUCANA and EEs, I really doubt the chicken I hatched are not AMERAUCANAs, and should be EEs. If you have the pictures of your...