Recent content by Alphabet Farm

  1. A

    The Poultry Palace ver. 1.0

    There’s 4 Muscovy ducks and 8 chickens, the ducks have their own separate area for sleeping until I can build something else for them that attaches to the run. They are in this run when I took the pictures because we had the lawn treated. The ventilation is in the soffits and the back has a...
  2. A

    The Poultry Palace ver. 1.0

    It’s by no means perfect, but I am pretty proud of myself for this since I’ve never built a coop before. Mistakes made, lessons learned, and some sweat and blood went into it. It is a 10’ X 20’ run and the coop is a 4’X 8’ with the front wall about 4’ and the back is roughly 2’. I don’t have...
  3. A

    Muscovy drake running off female

    It’s now turned into what looks like she is being attacked. She has 2 bare spots on her wings that are now bleeding
  4. A

    New Member here and Hello!

    Great name 😂 now you need more and call the rest The Justice league of Farm Animals. FYI it’s an actual DC comic group
  5. A

    My babies ate and killed a mouse?

    Time to have tiny Predator costumes made for them
  6. A

    Trimming Muscovy claws

    We do keep them outside but there’s not many hard surfaces that would wear them down
  7. A

    Muscovy drake running off female

    We have multiple areas set up for food and water for her but she wants to around the flock. When the drake is off doing his own thing the other hens are fine with her around. Thank you for the information
  8. A

    Greetings from RI

    Awesome, what county? Also do you use a heater in your coop during the winters?
  9. A

    Muscovy drake running off female

    Our drake Muscovy has been running off one of the female Muscovy any time she gets within 2 feet of him and the other 2 females. This has been going on for about a month there is no attacking to causes blood, but he also goes out of his way to run across the yard to chase this 1 female away from...
  10. A

    Trimming Muscovy claws

    How often do you trim the claws and what do you use? I have 4 Muscovy, 3 hen 1 drake, that are about 5 months
  11. A

    Newcastle disease?

    Are they showing any other signs of ND? respiratory signs – gasping, coughing, sneezing and rales nervous signs – tremors, paralyzed wings and legs, twisted necks, circling, spasms, and paralysis digestive signs diarrhea a partial or complete drop in egg production may occur. Eggs may be...
  12. A

    Greetings from RI

    Greetings everyone, My name is Chris I'm 41 and new to the community but not new to backyard farm life. About half my life has been spent either farming or fishing. I grew up on my grandparent's farm here in RI and also down at the fishing docks, but enough of that. My wife and I started our...
Back
Top Bottom