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    Free Ranging Muscovy Ducks

    If ever there was an appropriate analogy like "breed like rabbits" this is it. Muscovy can sit on a clutch as large as over 2 dozen eggs and can go broody up to 5 times a year......unless you want more muscovy than you can deal with, leave him penned and watch her like a hawk - these are the...
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    New ducklings - wont eat and they're afraid of me

    the more you handle and talk to them the more used to you they will get. it's easier to get a hatchling to imprint than an older duckling, but it is possible. It takes time and consistency,
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    Mulberry Trees

    Dump the boyfriend and save the fruit, lol!
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    San Diego/riverside/Orange - MUSCOVY EGGS WANTED

    I am hoping to find muscovy eggs within driving distance and within a reasonable price range. I have never had luck with shipped eggs, so I am bypassing that option, all together. I have 2 hens, but only 1 seems to lay eggs, and the other goes broody, but is the absolutely worst mother I have...
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    21 days till Market Week

    The kids cornish are way behind the power curve. they are about 1/2 the size of the other kids birds. That is partially my fault because I didn't have the grow out brooder ready and they stayed in the chick brooder much longer than they should have, didn't get much sun exposure, etc. they...
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    Mulberry Trees

    I don't know what flavor I taste in my berries, I just know it is good and YES they do stain. Both Pakistani and Persian grow really well here, but I've only tasted the Persian since that is what my friends grow, as well as myself. I have seen the Pakistani fruit and they are indeed long. The...
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    rain water collecting

    I capture grey water. We don't get enough rain to do anything with. I even let the hose run into a barrel when I turn it on during the day, just so I can collect all the super hot water that I can't put directly on my plants.
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    Feeding your garden

    Rabbit and alpaca poop can go directly on/in the soil without any burning. It also helps retain moisture, This is what I use. I would never put chicken directly on because it will burn, that goes in the compost.
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    Silkie mix chick unknown mix, age or sex

    There was no picture with the post, but in my experience, the cockerel will develop it's comb much, much sooner than the pullet will. It's easier to see on the non-bearded variety, than bearded.
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    what are we?

    I'd like to second that. Bronze have a particular pattern, a white would be yellow and anything in between wouldn't have a solid color. I loved my Spanish.
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    Grass - before and after chickens

    I need your chickens to talk to mine. I have not a single blade of grass. I have sod but I have to keep a wire mesh cage over it so they can only eat what grows through the mesh. One stinking 2x4 piece of sod.
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    Mulberry Trees

    With our super strange weather in SoCal, my Persians fruited in December and again at the end of February into March. A friend just brought some fruit from her tree to a meeting on Friday. This is the only mulberry that I have ever tasted and have not a want to try any others. They are so...
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    At what age can you tell gender

    For the fair we buy st run or whichever is cheaper. This year, there will be fewer kids with turkeys because of the crazy weather. Ours have to be a certain age by the market week and there were no hatcheries that sell to the public hatching at the time we needed them. I called feed stores...
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    4H turkeys - Suggestions on how to keep them active

    I have a yellow and red feed bucket that I use. they see it and they get all excited. I also feed them in stages. Sometimes I collect the food they haven't eaten and mix it around in the bucket and and pour it back in the feeders and fake them out. They gobble it up thinking it's new stuff...
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    At what age can you tell gender

    They look bronze. Where did you get them from? That would determine if they are a broad Breasted (Commercial) or heritage. I can usually tell at a pretty young age, but then again, I do a really good hen squeak and that normally makes the jakes strut even if they don't have anything to strut...
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