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This will be a somewhat lengthy post with 2 major points: When to get the rest of the females/what age/breed Where/how to house them since each of my two duck factions has a male and they are in the only 2 enclosures I currently have Quick recap: Got a pekin male (Niles) and female (Daphne) and...

I'd like to give all the information for a better answer as to what we can do........My husband and I had a jumbo pekin and welsh harlequin; both males. They get along great. We decided to get an African gosling and blue runner duckling. They've been brought up in the house, because we had no...

Hello all So two issues have arisen that I was hoping to get some opinions/thoughts on. Firstly is the behavior of the two older Pekin vs three newer/younger ducks (2 Cayuga and 1 Silver Appleyard) The two Pekin, one male one female are at 6 months and have adjusted well to their coop, the...

Hello! So we have two Embdens that we got as guard geese for our flock of 16 chickens. We have seven chickens that are six months old and nine chickens that are two and a half months old. The guard geese are not quite two months old. As of the last week the guard geese are chasing the chickens...

Aloha. I free range five hens of different varieties in my backyard, and about 5 months ago my children convinced me to get a pair of Muskovy ducklings. I haven’t yet figured out how people free feed their birds. The minute my birds step away from the feeder, at least 20 wild birds swoop in...

We live in the middle of 5 acres, and we have neighbors that live in the middle of 3. They have a small flock that free range, and mine free range while we are home. Our chickens go to the dividing fence line and hang out on both sides of the fence. There isn’t any issue with the neighbors but I...

So I have a rir rooster and a isa brown hen and australorp hen in a pen together, and apparently the isa brown has been destroying the australorps eggs, but not her own. I don't think she is really eating them. I think she is just breaking them open. I didn't know if she just doesnt want the...

My prior flock of 4 has dropped down to the house and met the 3 week old duckling group of 4 yesterday and the day before. The one younger Layer and a Cayuga have snapped at and gone after a duckling in the pool. I figured it to be a territorial thing. I separated all at once. I had not...

Has anyone any experience on a mallard drake attacking a pekin drake? I have two pekin girls and one mallard girl as well and they are being left alone. Recently my mallard drake has went bananas and started terrorizing my pekin male. Hes been pulling his feathers out and latching onto him. I...

I have been maintaining a cock and hen in one of those little prefabricated coops that were allowed to free-range daily. After some scrap management I was able to get the cock to loose interest in running out of his way to fight other cocks that were penned. That was done partly by getting the...

Okay, I will admit. Today I impulse bought a pair of button quail. I have noticed that red breasted buttons are quite rare where I live. However, I don't have any other button quail (Except week or so old chicks)so, I bought the red breasted male I found and a silver hen. I put up the aviary...

I have this unique case. My turkey is wild. My family decided to grab her from the wild and she was passed off to me. I have raised quail and chickens. I trained my dogs to not hurt Quinney (the turkey). For the most part she has been entirely indoors and now is outdoors. She is bigger now and I...