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    Have my hens retired?

    I'm not an expert by any means, but maybe the integration has stressed them out to the point that they've taken a break from laying, and maybe once they're fully used to the new companions they'll start laying again. Or... (again, this is just random guessing) maybe they've started laying their...
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    Muscovy Setup and Rat Snake Safety

    Some notes about the barn: The barn was originally designed for horses, so it's not nearly as tightly-sealed as a traditional chicken coop. The soon to be duck-zone is separated from the chickens with see-through fence, so I should be able to get the ducks and chickens accustomed to one...
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    Muscovy Setup and Rat Snake Safety

    Early this may I had 5 tiny muscovies ducklings. After I lost two, I put a large dog crate in my room that I keep the ducks in from 8:30pm-10:00am. During the day the ducklings are released into the duck run to frolic until the sun starts setting, rinse and repeat. I've kept this up for a couple...
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    Sudden Duckling Death. Attack or Illness?

    I used to keep the brooder door closed during the day, but once temperatures got in the 90-100 degree fahrenheit range I started keeping the door open and used bird netting to cover the entrance. I guess a rat could have easily slipped under it. I don't know any other way they could've gotten in...
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    Sudden Duckling Death. Attack or Illness?

    A week ago, one of my five muscovy ducklings wedged himself into a tight gap when something spooked him, and though it eventually got itself free it took a long while to pry itself loose. It was dead by morning– I assumed that shock did him in. Yesterday, the four remaining ducklings (now...
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    Makeshift Duckling Food?

    The chickens are currently working their way through a bag of purina all flock, but that comes in pellet form, and I didn't want to risk the choking hazard. I do have a big unopened bag of laying crumble on standby, but I was worried about the calcium content you mentioned. I suppose one...
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    Makeshift Duckling Food?

    I have 5 four week old muscovy ducklings I'm currently raising. I fed them the last of their duckling crumbles today and didn't get a chance to run by the store to get more like I intended (a crisis came up in the chicken coop). So... I put together a quick batch of something to hold them over...
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    EMERGENCY! Muscovy Nest Emptied. Can The Eggs be Put Back?

    She was sitting on about 11. I wanted to get as many back under her as possible without disturbing her. I think I got about 2 back where they were, and the rest are leaning right up against her under a thin layer of down and hay.
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    EMERGENCY! Muscovy Nest Emptied. Can The Eggs be Put Back?

    Writing this fast, so pardon any grammar errors. This is the situation: Late this March, Jamboree (my female duck of a drake-hen pair) began laying, and soon after became broody. I don't know if she had ever laid/hatched before since I bought her as an adult, but she was super faithful about...
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    Muscovy Duck Wanders Off

    She reappeared this afternoon! We’ve got all three ducks now: Ducky, Dinger, and Jamboree (in that order from from front to back.) Will take care to keep Jamboree in the fenced-in area for the next couple of weeks. There's a 6ftx10ft duck run adjacent to it that I'll close all the ducks into at...
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    Muscovy Duck Wanders Off

    I have raised two muscovy ducks from ducklinghood: a girl and a boy named Ducky and Dinger, (now about five months old.) I thought it was a good idea to get another lady for Dinger, so two weeks ago I brought home a new adult female muscovy named Jamboree. Two days ago, I woke up to find...
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    Hello! Molly Here

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Technically, they are my parents' chickens. They started raising them about a year and a half ago, so we're all still pretty new to the whole thing. I lend a hand whenever I can. I myself take care of three muscovy ducks (have raised...
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