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    Comment by 'DuckMama9' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    How does it work with waterfowl? I keep ducks and chickens together. Does anyone know how this method works with watery duck poop and under the ducks tender webbed feet? I prefer wood shavings and straw in their house because the urea that soaks in us amazingly nutritious for the garden beds...
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    Ended 11th Annual EHAL - Contest #3: Cutest Baby Fowl - Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    Indian runner and two black Swedish ducklings.
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    Update: Sweetpea has continued to make slow and steady progress. During free-range time outdoors she has moved around a bit. She’s getting acquainted with the ducks—mostly the ducks are afraid of her and don’t want to have anything to do with her. They are far from letting her share their...
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    She is a Hy-line brown. Hy-line browns are a hybrid which lay around 320 very large brown eggs per year, come into laying earlier than most other breeds and peak in their production at close to two years. They have a calm, and passive temperament making them well suited for a backyard flock as...
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    She had an official exam at the vet on Tuesday. He said she seemed well hydrated and to keep up what I’ve been doing. At home though, I gently massage her head to toe daily, as not only a way of comforting her, but to check her over for anything abnormal. She feels very “skinny” to me all...
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    Update: Sweetpea has made some improvements. On Wednesday she was clearly bothered by the sticky buildup of the liquid nutrients that I’ve been feeding her, on her neck/breast feathers and she tried to groom herself. I helped her out a bit and gave her a sponge bath with a little baby shampoo...
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    Update on Sweetpea: There has been little improvement since I brought her home on Friday. She does exhibit a bit more head movement and cluck when bothered and puts up a stronger fight against my dropper feeding, watering and medicating, so she seems to be getting her strength back, but other...
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    Thank you! I will check it out!
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    Treating a Traumatized Hen

    I know they say never to bring your work home with you, but when I found a hen in a “catatonic” state of trauma from surviving a suspected hawk attack out on the farm I work at, and the head farmer’s answer was to cull her, well, I just couldn’t let that happen so I brought her home to recover...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I have five hens and one drake. I am collecting 4-5 eggs every morning!
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    Protecting Pasture Chickens from Coyotes, Owls and Hawks

    The coops are locked up at night via automatic coop door, but the problem is that some of the chickens don’t return to their coops at night and instead spend the night outdoors.
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    Socializing a new puppy to chickens, any successful strategies?

    I agree, it is all about the training. Enroll in basic obedience training. Recall is important as well as “leave it”. You will need to establish a good relationship with the pup and clear communication to let him know what behavior is acceptable and what is not. You will establish that...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I love the name and I love that you treat your girls as pets! I treat my ducks the same!
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    Protecting Pasture Chickens from Coyotes, Owls and Hawks

    I just started a new job at a local pasture raised chicken farm. Our mission at Alcove Farms is to sow, grow, and restore. We pasture raise cattle and about 3,000 organically fed laying hens on 160 acres. We sell our eggs at the local grocery stores and farmer’s markets. We have been having...
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    Cross Breeding

    Has anyone ever tried crossing a black Swedish with fawn and white Indian runners? My one male drake is a black and white Swedish, and I also have a black Swedish female, two blue Swedish females and two fawn and white Indian runner females. I’m curious what might result in crossing my black...
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