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    how well do pine shavings break down in a compost pile?

    Ditto..as stated , the key is..it's used as mulch and added to every 3 or 6 months, kept away from the trunk of trees or main stems of plants...left on top of the soil ...never mixed in. ..and it has manure mixed in to help start the breakdown.
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    how well do pine shavings break down in a compost pile?

    I realize you probably know this already but for anyone following the thread, If you have a cold pile (let alone frozen) the microbes wont be able to get going, ..its only if the nitrogen on the pile was sufficient ...during..the warm season that microbes could get off to a statrt and generate...
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    How cold is too cold for my duck?

    On questions about "how cold is too cold" for a duck ...that's what I like to hear, someone from Minnesota chiming in !! This is context that anyone, almost anywhere, can take to heart . Suffice it to say, unless your duck 's feathers are wet and not drying out, if you live in Florida, you...
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    How cold is too cold for my duck?

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    Duck completely lame then recovered except balance,possible cat bite?

    Thanks...no again..we do have a couple of oaks ..our ducks spend no time over there...as stated he was found with small blood spots on his bill and what appeared to be small sharp teeth marks...our vet agreed that a cat bite is nasty and full of various bacteria....we feel that he either got an...
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    Duck completely lame then recovered except balance,possible cat bite?

    I also noticed he loses his balance when he moves his head to preen which makes me think maybe an inner ear problem.
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    Duck completely lame then recovered except balance,possible cat bite?

    Thanks for your reply...we don't have scorpions anywhere around here ..in eastern Ontario..and there are no venomous snakes here either....it is winter with snow on the ground ..the gardener snakes. rat snakes and whatever else we have are all in deep hibernation. ...quite sure it was a feral...
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    Duck completely lame then recovered except balance,possible cat bite?

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    Duck completely lame then recovered except balance,possible cat bite?

    We had a goose who got watery green diarrhea and was partly lame..my wife claims she recovered and then got it again..eventually died after about a week. As I recall she also had tremors Then , one of our drakes got the watery green diarrhea and was completely lame..i noticed he had what...
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    scruffy looking cayuga drake

    All our geese and ducks molted before the snow was gone and by the time spring arrived , all had new feathers and looking great, but we have a new pair of cayugas, 'elvis and priscilla' we got them in the early spring, just as the other ducks and geese were renewing their feathers. priscilla is...
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    Can ducks and geese share a pen?

    to be more clear our original goose 'goosey' was raised with our ducklings and thought she was a duck, then we got her a pair of toulouse to hang our with and she discovered she was a goose, but her buddies the drakes became sexually mature and started to chase after her and terrorize...
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    Can ducks and geese share a pen?

    It depends on personalities, size, past interactions, stress levels, competition, space they are confined to etc.....and what is fine today may not be tomorrow. We had a nasty mallard drake, Mojo, who had the swagger of Lenny Kraviitz but the insecurity of Conrad Black... was completely...
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