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    Redness on rooster legs

    Thank you for the feedback. We've been catching him and giving him the spa soak + petroleum jelly + DE. Hoping this shows fast improvement, he's very hard to catch unless its grabbing him from the roost at night, we can catch him with a net but he gets really tangled up as he flails around. but...
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    Redness on rooster legs

    They do look pretty awful, he does not act in pain noticably. I don't know if any of these pics are clearer, but heres some from different angle. I can try to get actually clearer pics tomorrow morning.
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    Redness on rooster legs

    He's undisputed top rooster in a flock of about 10 (no other roosters currently, doubt he's getting picked on), they all free range, no one else has any noticeable symptoms symptoms though.
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    Redness on rooster legs

    Anyone experienced know what this is?
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    Great, thanks! Do you do anything for aeration in the aquarium, or does it just need to not have a lid on it?
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    Do you think you could keep a starter culture going inside in a fish tank or something over the winter? Or does it show up naturally pretty consistently?
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    Thanks for all the links. I'm not enough of a botanist to be able to identify what I have, to me "Least Duckweed" and "Common Duckweed" look identical, although the ads I bought from claimed Lemna Minor. Since my goal is to get chicken food, I'm not concerned about raising a specific strain so...
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    Interesting. Do you add any nutrients besides washing the feeders? Do you do any filtering, cycling, or aeration in your tanks besides what occurs when you wash out equipment? Indoors or outdoors, and do you supplement heat or light? Do you have any recommendations about finding a good strain...
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    NEW HERE AND EXCITED TO BE HERE

    Yes it's been such a relief having the ducks on pasture. The biggest additional chore (beyond what the chickens already need) these days is just rinsing out and refilling their swimming pool.
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    great to know, thanks! that sort of changes my thoughts on the stuff a little bit... My birds have tons of space to free range and access to plants/bugs/weeds all day, so I think they're probably finding plenty of the trace vitamins and minerals in the wild stuff. I'm really looking to reduce...
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    BSFL (Black Soldier Fly Larvae)

    I'm raising them, chickens go crazy for them. I can't grow enough and I'm looking to expand my operation. The option I went with was a little expensive, but foolproof and pretty instantly gratifying. I got a biopod and ordered small and big larvae from a nearby breeder. Very expensive for what...
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    *intentional* duckweed or azolla growing

    I'm interested in any kind of home food production I can set up for my birds, and so of course have read about aquatic plants like duckweed and azolla. I've been trying to get some going at home with no luck. I ordered from 4 different sellers on ebay, and i'm trying to grow in containers (1...
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    Introduction to our crazy flock

    Hi welcome I'm new too thats very cool you have silkies i :highfive: would like to get some one day
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    NEW HERE AND EXCITED TO BE HERE

    Loving the ducks but it was a VERRRY steep learning curve over the past 3 months. We were very wrong when we thought it would be easy to add "just a few more". The mother hens did ALL the work with their babies, honestly I think the only change we had to make was buying starter feed. In...
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    NEW HERE AND EXCITED TO BE HERE

    Thank you all, what a cool community!!! Very excited to be here.
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