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    Do hens "crow" like roosters?

    I have a black Chinese Langshan hen that crows incessantly!
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    Comment by 'DuckDuckPing' in article 'Our girls (and our boy!)'

    As you can see our two adopted battery farm hens are very inquisitive and love the camera!
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    Our girls (and our boy!)

    Here are all our girls, and our boy DuckDuck. Our girls started out as two older ladies saved from the local cage farm. These poor ladies were locked in a tiny cage in terrible conditions. They now have space to move, warm beds and tons of grass and insects to feast on. Since then our flock has...
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    Why did you get your first chickens?

    We got our first chickens to save them from death row at the battery hen farm. In Australia we have a group called Animals Australia that are attempting to outlaw battery farming. We are members and supporters of this group, so we made our own personal little contribution by saving two "old...
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    At what age......

    Dont they go at it quite often though? Surely we would have noticed?
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    At what age......

    Any clue on why he wont then? He did have a calcium deficiency when he was a duckling. Could that stop him from mating, he does everything else normally.
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    At what age......

    He is around 10 months old. The duck is 7 months and has been laying for two months or so. She started fairly young.
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    At what age......

    anyone? please?
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    At what age......

    At what age would a khaki cross drake become sexually mature and actually mount our girl duck?
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    Hatching eggs....

    Will she react poorly if I remove the duck eggs now the chicks have hatched?
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    Hatching eggs....

    will the chicks then die because she is not taking them out and bout to eat and drink?
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    Hatching eggs....

    We have a chicken who is sitting on a combo of duck and chicken eggs. The chicken eggs hatched yesterday, the duck eggs have another 6 days to go. We have an incubator ready to finish off the duck eggs. Any advice on how to go about this? She has yet to come out with the baby chickens so we...
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    Broody hen sitting on duck eggs.....

    OK so we decided to get some fertile eggs to place under a broody hen. The guy gave us a mix of 4 duck eggs and 6 chicken eggs. He told us the gestation period is the same for both. Does this sound correct? And is it ok to mix a brood of chooks and ducks? I read that duck eggs take longer to...
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    Broody hen???????

    OK so we decided to get her some fertile eggs. The guy gave us a mix of 4 duck eggs and 6 chicken eggs. He told us the gestation period is the same for both. Does this sound correct? And is it ok to mix a brood of chooks and ducks? I read that duck eggs take longer to hatch.
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    Broody hen???????

    Thanks Jack but she has no eggs! can she still be broody?
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