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    Broody hens, but still too cold?

    Umm, thanks for the warm welcomes, but I've been a member for over a year. Still very nice of you though, if I were a newbie I'd feel very special. Heck I still feel special. LOL Well in follow up to my earlier e g g or r o o s t e r question:P I've been trying to get my girls to sit on some...
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    Announcement April Fools 2009 - Server Upgrade Good News / Bad News - Post Counts Lost

    Hmm, Now I know why people have been welcoming me to BYC all over again. I've been here a while folks, I'm just a quiet peep;) Thanks though. Very warm welcomes!
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    Broody hens, but still too cold?

    Okay, My girls have officially been laying for a few weeks now, including the ducks, yay! But now some of them are starting to go broody. By "some" I mean two or three out of fifty. It's still hanging around upper 30s to low 40s around here and is expected to do so for a couple weeks still. I...
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    ...and still nothing!

    Well, they free range, so they get sunlight from dawn to dusk. I'm not sure if where I am is up to 14 hours just yet, but I know we're close. Some of them are squatting and sometimes when I get in to the coop they do that shreiking thing that's supposed to attract attention away from thier...
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    ...and still nothing!

    I still haven't gotten any eggs out of my chickens this year. Some of my flock is still too young to lay eggs, but the remainder are old enough and have laid eggs in the past. We let them out to free range in the yard but have thier nesting boxes inside the coop. I've been looking around the...
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    Hey Quick! What breed?

    I'm gonna guess part Rouen like everyone else. But I think the other part is either Magpie or Ancona.
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    Pigeon laid the first eggs of the season

    This is my first time raising pigeons. The parents are tolerant of my presence but are in no way hand friendly. So I have to take it easy with the newborn.
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    Pigeon laid the first eggs of the season

    And we officially have a hatch! Momma Homer is now sitting on one yellow tuft of fuzz! Yay! The other egg has mysteriously disappeared for whatever reason. But I'm still excited. I think I have to wait ten days before I can start handling it to get it used to me right? I'll have to back over all...
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    Pigeon laid the first eggs of the season

    Woo hoo! My Giant Runt pigeons have followed suit I guess. Bernice has laid an egg herself and is getting nesty with it. Only problem is Bernice has paired herself up with a smaller pigeon who has a bald eagle head and I'm not sure how cross breeding is going to work between them. But I guess...
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    Pigeon laid the first eggs of the season

    Just when I thought winter would never end I found two eggs in the pigeon nesting boxes all warm and snuggly. My Archangel homers have apparently been busy and now Mom is the first of all my birds to lay eggs this year and the first to go broody and sit on them. Hope she's successful. It's still...
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    Duck Breeding Season

    Does duck breeding season usually take place during a specific set of months? Or is it usually just from spring thaw until they hatch a clutch? None of my kids have started laying yet. But it's still below freezing around here, so no surprise.
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    Best Meat Bird Order?

    Has anyone used White Leghorns for meat birds? Sunnyside Hatchery has male leghorn chicks for 38 cents a piece and that could be a real budget saver, But I don't know if it would be worth it. I've been raising birds for a little over a year now but this will be the first year I am going to be...
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    so whos getting excited for duck laying season? :D

    I can't wait for my kids to start laying eggs again! Last year I got only a small handfull and never discovered who the layer was. I know that all of my girls, except maybe five of my muscovies, are old enough to lay. The only reason I doubt my other girls is because they were hatched late in...
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    Winter Care of Muscovies

    I'm in Northern Wisconsin and my Muscovies are doing just fine. We have them confined for now through the winter and have not had a single problem. We've lost a few Pheasants and chickens since winter set in but the ducks are all present and accounted for. Another reason why I love them:) During...
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    I need suggestions for housing ducks in the winter

    Fancy schmancy coop builder here. Guilty. Well actually my DH was the one who insisted on building them an indoor duck shelter for the winter. I wanted to leave them outside and let them come in at night like they had been all year but got over ruled. All the kids are kept indoors at all times...
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