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    My. Chickens and ducks are chirped away!

    so true I had my day old chicks (9) with week old ducklings (6) and the little duckers got the chicks wet@ night when I was sleeping. 8 of 9 chicks looked soggy & dead, I checked. ..they weren't. I put them in a separate bin with a heatlamp over & a heat/fan blowing@ the bin from a few feet...
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    sick little duckling

    These are my new friends. 3 Toulouse goslings & 6 muscovy ducklings. This was my day one with them after I picked them up from a local hobby farmer. Everyone ate & drank as soon as we got home, about a 45 minute drive. They've been indoors most the time except for 6-8 hours a day in a 10x10 run...
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    When will ringneck hens lay?

    12x8 coop. 12x20 hardware cloth covered run. 30x40 fenced with bird mesh top.
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    When will ringneck hens lay?

    I'm new and want to ask you (TKT) a question. Someone near here has trio's of Ring Neck Pheasants 2f 1m. Is this possible for me to keep. Or would he be under henned and bad for the girls ? Thx.
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    Thanks. I'll check it out. Really I'd just like a bunch of pullets. The ground is prepped for the coop and the weather is mainly above freezing and warming. My wife has even started to get into the idea of 'girls' around here too !!!!
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    I can't find one (another supplier)unless it's 'Trios' . 1 roo/2hens. Multiple breeds. One even has Ring Necked Pheasants. I might consider 3 Pheasants, but is the cock/hen ratio like chickens: 2-1 m/f not a good idea? Kamloops, B.C., Canada is where I am. Nobody seems to sex chickens.
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    My chick supplier doesn't sex them. If I want 15 hens, do I have to get 40+ and 'soup' half of them ? When I watched 'dirty jobs' they seemed to sex thousands of hatchlings per shift and vaccinate@ the same time. I have no aversion to culling a nasty hen or roo, but I mean to raise egg...
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    Got my chick feeders/wateres as well as the 6g food/waters in stainless. Also R250w bulb and lamp. Time to dig a hole and get going.my RIR supplier says beginning of march, April, & May. Aiming for April. Just a little too cold to dig here right now. Bock Bock.....
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    Love BYC

    I know it sounds weird, but bit the dog's ear just like his mama did. It works, not too hard just to annoy him.
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    My plan is to raise "eggers" & if I have a nasty too aggressive one it might hit the smoker. The place I'm getting them from doesn't sex them or vaccinate, I bought medicated chick starter crumbles. My question is, is it as easy to sex them as it looked on "dirty jobs".....flip them over...
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    Heffley Chicken Ranch

    I'm Brad. New to chicken fun farming. I've read a LOT of things on this site , and after filtering through it, most of it is quite helpful. I'm building a 12×8 coop w/a 12×20 covered run plus another 20×50 fenced but not covered run where my Marema (dog) will guard during the day. I'm...
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