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    Milk goats in western mass ?

    I love milk. And at the cost today it's cheaper to pasture a goat or two and milk myself. I've had dwarf Nigerians before and honestly they didn't produce enough milk fore to want to deal with. I'd be looking for goats that produce milk similar to raw cow. Good for drinking but enough of the...
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    Why won't they go outside?

    No all same age. Today I went in and tried to un-roost them. They just kept running around me and hopping back up.
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    Why won't they go outside?

    I have a couple birds that refuse to go outside. They have a pretty big run attached to the outside of the coop. These 2 just never go out. They prefer to be up on one of the roosting boards. Any thoughts? Should I force them outside during a few hours a day?
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    I want to start raising ducks.....

    the ducks came with some free eggs that we found while looking for the chicks. I candled the eggs I put in 2 days ago and some are starting to show some shadowing. I am going to assemble a box with a light..I found a small light fixture and a LED bulb that is just intensely bright. I ran it...
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    couple questions....

    no kidding...what colors do these birds have that males genetically could not? The other males i've seen so far are so far different then their female counterpart there is no mistaking. However, with the "free bird" you usually have no other of it's kind to compare it to.
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    I want to start raising ducks.....

    my aunt posted this to my facebook....i laughed pretty good... "chickens are the gateway livestock"
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    couple questions....

    The place I get my chickens from frequently throw in an extra or 2..along with the "bonus chicken"...which is always something from their "rare" listing. This last time around I got 10 pullets of buff orpington, 10 pullets Araucana, and 15 straight run buff brahma. so far, one buff orpington...
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    New toys!

    got around to taking some pictures. now I just have to get out there and drag the thing out of the high grass....
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    I want to start raising ducks.....

    Ok, I went and picked up some ducks from a very nice lady about an hour away.Here they are! 2 drakes and 5 ducks, and a duckling free. The duckling belongs to one of the ducks i bought. There was supposed to be 2 others, however, they were hiding very well among the high grass so they were...
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    Sanitizing eggs

    ok well...i rubbed them with a coarse towel and most of the stuff came off...with the high humidity anything left on there should come off. Does anyone actually disinfect their eggs before putting them in the incubator?
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    Sanitizing eggs

    these are duck eggs i bought from a local farm. Some have a little poo on them...i figured a decent rinse...maybe a couple drops of iodine?
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    Sanitizing eggs

    What's the best method for cleaning and sanitizing eggs for the incubator?
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    local duck eggs...

    The eggs... They called them farm special. They could be anything. They had runners cambells and pekings. Plus crosses of all those too. The adults I'm getting are khaki Campbell, Indian runner or a cross of the two. It was hard for her to say exactly what they were.
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    Jumbo Peking

    I am ordering some Jumbo Peking ducks from McMurray. I want to keep a couple hens and drakes so they will continue to lay fertile eggs in the future so I don't have to buy more. Here is the question...What is the size difference between the boys and girls? If I'm looking to buy the first...
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    local duck eggs...

    I picked up 2 dozen assorted duck eggs. Some are HUGE and white...some smaller and blueish. They'll go in the incubator today...last night fired it up and waiting on the temp to become stable. One of the dozen was in the fridge for a day....will they still hatch? I have a few ducks lined up...
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