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I tried it, and it didn't work.  I had one duckling in with 5 chicks.  It was horribly messy.  The poor duck ended up dead, and the peeps where eating it.  They had food.  They were about 9 days old when it happened.  I was so sad.  If your area is big enough you can partition it off so you can put the chicks on one side, and the ducklings on the other.  You can still use the same heat lamp then at least until peeps are using there flight feathers?????????????

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Originally Posted by henchandelier 

My chicks are mostly all feathered but I guess I'll still wait another week or two just to be sure... Plus I adopted 4 more chicks that are about a week behind and I'm thinking I should put them all out at the same time...
thinking about getting two ducklings off of craigslist for $2 and trying to raise them with my chicks... Am I nuts?
Have any of you ever done that? The lady who has them said they make a very watery mess with the chick waterers...

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Originally Posted by missydcpc 


If we all wind up going, we have to meet up!

I'm kind of sorry I have something else to do that day. It could be fun to go to a chicken auction with a bunch of enablers....

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Originally Posted by henchandelier 

My chicks are mostly all feathered but I guess I'll still wait another week or two just to be sure... Plus I adopted 4 more chicks that are about a week behind and I'm thinking I should put them all out at the same time...
thinking about getting two ducklings off of craigslist for $2 and trying to raise them with my chicks... Am I nuts?
Have any of you ever done that? The lady who has them said they make a very watery mess with the chick waterers...

I'd keep them away from the chicks. Like someone else said, ducks are terribly messy. They need to be able to submerge their bills when they eat, and seem to enjoy flinging water round as part of the process.  Their poop is much wetter than chicks, and you would need to replace bedding much more often. We refer to ducklings as 'stinklings'.

MsLadyHawke, we are neighbors!  I drive down Kings HWY regularly, (through Wagontown?) and live right off of Strausburg Road in Newlin Twp!  

I just visited a friend who was raising baby ducks with her chicks and seperated them for that. It was messy.
 

Hi all,

 Northern Berks Co here.

Our blue copper marans broody has JUST hatched out 6 chicks and the man of the house has agreed to put up the bunch for sale. Mama goes with the babies. I haven't examined the babies thoroughly yet but I think I have seen  light blues, dark blues, and blacks.  Daddy is either a blue copper marans or a blue egg( tailed) black Araucauna, so pullets should lay either a pure marans egg or a nice olive egg. You should be able to tell by the comb and leg feathers which daddy it is. It's entirely possible they are all pure marans, but who would turn down a nice olive egg?

We have 7 laying  B/B/S copper marans right now and had set the darkest eggs.  For those having trouble hatching marans, we totally agree it's a crapshoot. We had set 12 eggs.

Also available is a 5 ft chicken feeder on legs, used but lots of life left.Too large for our coop.

We aren't about to ship these so local pickup only. PM me  for more info.

we are in Forks township and just picked up 2 barred rock (3 days old ) and 2 ameracuna (born today ). We got them from "best things from eggs " in Easton. Ben and Stephanie were very helpful and informative. they showed us all their feathered friends and did not rush us at all.  

I am embarrassed to ask, but I live in Southern York County, an hour from Ephrata. Earlier in the thread a lot of you talked about The Green Dragon Market and an upcoming event May 12th. I looked it up but can only find the normal information for their weekly business. What exactly goes on May 12th? For the auction can anyone buy? What do they sell? Can you only buy in the auction? Do vendors sell chickens? Please give me info!!! I really want to go to this.