Recent content by dermefel
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Tell How Predators Got Your Ducks. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience
We have tried to raise all of our poultry on pasture. We had 7 Buff ducks in a hoop house style "duck tractor" made on a 2x4 frame with cattle panels bent in an arc. Hardware cloth around the bottom half, and 14 gauge 2x3 fence over the top half of the sides, and hardware cloth on the front... -
What would you do?
Thanks for the info. Honestly, we work pretty hard to predator proof all of our pens. These ducks are out in our fields in hoop house style tractors wrapped entirely in hardware cloth. The ground got a bit wet in one area, and the ground wasn't entirely level which gave the predator an... -
What would you do?
So I had 7 Buff ducks (5 females, 2 males) that had been raised together since December. Things were going great, eggs were dropping, one had gone broody, and was sitting on some eggs that would have hatched this Wednesday. Yesterday morning everything went pear shaped as we awoke to find that... -
Reptipro 5000 Hatch-A-Long (=
Ok, so this is my first hatch in the Reptipro 5000. For that matter, it's my first hatch in anything. Day 21 was Tuesday of this week. We are now day 23. I have 2 that hatched (had to help them a bit), and 2 that have pipped. I candled a couple of the others and there is movement inside...- dermefel
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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Help with Lethargic Baby Turkey
Long time reader, first time poster... I purchased some chicks at my local farm store yesterday and while there I noticed one of the baby turkeys had it's leg stuck in the floor of the cage they were in. So, I proceeded to help it unwedge it, and stood there watching it flounder around and...