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    New Member and Trouble with Ducks

    Actually, I just read some of the integration and quarantine articles here and will be getting chicks, not adult birds. Thank goodness for BYC!
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    Do you use the egg shells as calcium for the hens?

    How long do you bake them? and I assume at low temps.
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    New Member and Trouble with Ducks

    Thank you for your help! I am going to get a few more female ducks hopefully today.
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    Will a cross Muscovy with a Cayuga Duck lay eggs?

    Hello. I have a very pretty cross bred duck. The farmer who sold her to me said she was Muscovy and Runner Duck, but she looks like Muscovy and Cayuga. She definitely has the markings of a Cayuga with some of the red fleshy face of Muscovy. She flies really well - the farmer told me she...
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    Do you use the egg shells as calcium for the hens?

    Hello. I have been given oyster shells to the hens, but I saw someone on here that said she breaks up the shells and uses those for her hens. I was afraid that might encourage the chickens to break their eggs to get at the shells. How do you all do this? Do you "recycle" the egg shells as...
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    New Member and Trouble with Ducks

    Hello I joined this forum a month or so ago. I used your materials in processing a rooster and a hen that was thought to be a rooster. More likely just the top hen who was particularly aggressive. Your materials were extremely helpful. I now have a few hens, a female duck and a male duck...
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