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I have 1 roo and 9 hens. One of my hens is going around and pecking at all the others butts. I have noticed that most of the other chickens all have plucked butts under their vents. I assume that the culprit is this one hen. I give them scrambled eggs and other proteins and they have more...

Is this normal and why would they do this?? I have 10 chickens, 1 roo, 9 hens. Roo (Rosco) is a RIR, as are 3 hens, 2 are EE, 2 White Leghorns, 2 Black links. Hubby seen one of the red hens picking the feathers out of Roscos hackle, and eating it. He let this continue until she apparently...

I went out Sunday to find 2 of my ducks beating the snot out of the other duck. He took quite the beating and was not going to make it. So I figured if I had to do one I was going to do all three. So now the ducks are in the freezer and I am very sad. We had planned on doing it before winter...

I am so excited my 21 and 22 week old chickes have started laying eggs! I found a RIR hen being a drama queen maoning and growling in a nest box and a few hrs later when I checked there was a small brown egg. That was Friday. To date I have 6 eggs from my 9 layers. These eggs are so small...

We started out with 3 ducks - 2 pekins and 1 rouen. My son so wanted the rouen to be a male and named him gary. Well Gary featherd out in all brown and drab colors, so we assumed it was female...ds cried and we changed his name to Gertie. Well the other day I noticed that Gertie is getting a...

My neighbor came over last night and asked me if I wanted more chickens. Seems her other friend got a bit overboard and bought too many chickens this spring and is in need of getting rid of 8- 10 of them. He is going to give them to me for free. They are the same age (give or take a week or...

The brooder moved outside:

Here are my yucky ducks and thier box that they will not go into..... The Yard: The neighbors like to overlook our ducks and chickens, that is thier house there in the background. The ducks: Their kiddy pool: Their box:

Here is the coop that we have been working on for some time. It is 8x8, with 8' high sloping down to 6'. We just cemented the posts in and will finish the run today. The nest boxes: The run The chickies waiting to get in: The forman supervising our work:

We have chickens and ducks right now. DH is talking about adding a few turkeys next year. From what I read you have to keep them away from the chickens. How far apart do they need to be? My chickens are fenced in totally so they can't get out. The ducks have a short fence that they do...

of chicks? The guy at TS told of an old farmer's tale of holding the chicks by thier head and if they put up a fight they were roos and if they just hung there they were hens. Well we let him pick our first 6 RIRs and now that they are 16 weeks old I can definately say I have 4 roos of the...

I have 3 ducks that have tried my patients more than once here. I love them and they are too cute to watch and quack at. They have a very nice box that they do not use, plenty of water and food, kiddy pool pond, lots of space to root for bugs and grass, etc. But still I have to catch at least...

I guess I thought wrong! I have 2 pekins and 1 rouen. they live outside in the orchard in a 2' high fenced in area 50x50'. They will not go in their fancy box that we built them but oh well, they are living good. We had a heck of a storm last night and there was a BIG puddle in the yard...

I have 13 chickens in my basement..... The first 6 are RIRs and area week older than the other 7. When i try to feed the RIRs there is one that will attack me. I am all pecked and scratched from this one bird! I generally give it a backhand and send it sailing across the pen when it...

ok we finally got the outside area done for the 3 stinky yucks. We put them out Friday afternoon. They now have about' x 50' square fenced in area with a kiddy pool and a nice box/home. I put them in the new area and hearded them to the kiddy pool so they would figure out how to get in and...

I have 6 RIRs that are 5 weeks old and 7 variouse breed chicks that are 4 weeks old. I currently have them all in a 4x8 brooder separated by chicken wire. The younger ones are smaller than the reds, but they have been able to see each other for several weeks now. When can I take the divider...

I noticed that my one Pekin duck's left wing is sticking out. I did a bit of research and found out it is angel wing. How do I correct this? The duck is a little over 4 weeks old. Do I tape around the whole body of the duck or just around the wing?

ok I have had it with these smelly fowls in my basement. We are building a coop to put them outside this weekend (they are 4 weeks old and almost all feathered out). I want to put them in the orchard area. I have a kiddy pool for them. Do I need to fence a yard in for them? Will they stay...

Can pekins ducks eat too much? I have 2 Ps and 1 rouen, all the same age (3 weeks). The one P is HUGE, and seems to strugle to waddle around the very big brooder. Once she gets going she is fine and can run with the rouen when he gets all excited and decides to do laps. The hhave pelnty of...

ok here are my girls, can you help me with the breeds of the white, black and white, and chipmunk looking chicks? White chick: Lucky the RIR TSC resuce peep: Black and white peep: Chipmunk peep: All the new peeps: The RIR a week ago: The RIRs now: My how they grow The duckies a...