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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    I can smell it by our driveway, which is in front of the coop. But not when I walk to her side. But I don't doubt she can still smell it as the breeze blows sound and smell to her house. Even our dogs barking is different in her house. With us, it's just a normal barking sound but in her house...
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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    I JUST heard about poop boards. Need to look into it more and see how they're made, etc
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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    I've thought about sand before. I'll have to think on it again. Honestly, just raked everything out of the coop straight into the run because it was easy and the hens turn it over into compost pretty quickly.
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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    Oh, sorry. 10 hens with 10 extra chicks currently under a heat lamp. So eventually there will be 20. The run is roughly 100' x 20' and i occasionally let them out to free range the 1/3 acre backyard. I could do a more controlled rotational graze if I made another run on the other side of the...
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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    I usually use pine shavings but this last clean out was hay, since the goats had been hanging with the chickens. Generally doesn't smell unless I do a clean out. Suggestions on how to manage the smell when I clean things out? :sick I've been covering everything with dirt but that's not a long...
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    Looking for Advice: would you move the coop/run?

    I have a neighbor who, after some rough beginnings, has become a friend and a sort-of adopted grandma to my kids. She doesn't mind that we have chickens and goats but, on occasion, the smell wafts down to her house and she's quick to let me know about it. Thankfully, she isn't reporting me to...
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    Meat duck eatin' question

    Just wondering if, when it's time for our meat ducks to go to that Great Pond in the Sky, can we eat it the day we've processed it or does it HAVE to set in the fridge for a day or 2?
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    Meat duck eatin' question

    Just wondering if, when it's time for our meat ducks to go to that Great Pond in the Sky, can we eat one the same day we've processed it or does it HAVE to set in the fridge for a day or 2?
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission - Thread #9

    Peek-a-boo!
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    Muscovy eating eggs

    About 1/2 cup for the 5 of them to share. Didn't realize it was bad for them. :oops: Will the oyster shells stop the egg eating or is it a bad habit now? 😬
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    Muscovy eating eggs

    I have 4 hens and a drake. All less than a year old. Gals laid eggs...started off with 10 in the nest. Then one of the hens decided to set. She was doing great for 3 days and then today I noticed she's off the nest and we're down to 2 eggs! Found some shells that looked like they'd been pecked...
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    ADVICE PLEASE! My 9 month long Muscovy has been laying eggs for an entire month!

    Oh, have you seen the sticky on hatching out Muscovies? Maybe that thread will help? https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs.63532/ ETA: nevermind. I see you've been there. lol. I wonder, do you have any broody chickens that might like to hatch out some...
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    ADVICE PLEASE! My 9 month long Muscovy has been laying eggs for an entire month!

    Yup, the clutch will be fine until she decides to settle in and brood. Though if she's not laying in a nest she might not be ready to brood yet. Mine were laying all over the place (even found eggs in their pool. lol) for the first few months and then my main gal became serious and made a nest...
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    My first ducklings are here!

    Ah, I see. I must not have noticed since I was buying more than 2. lol. Love the names! Our last ducks were named after cartoon duck characters (Daisy, Darkwing). Can't wait to see what the kids come up with this time around.
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    ADVICE PLEASE! My 9 month long Muscovy has been laying eggs for an entire month!

    I might be saying something you already know, if so I apologize. I had Muscovies a few years ago and my gal would lay an egg a day and leave them until she had as many as she wanted to set on, she'd get to actual brooding. Until she decided to sit on them, they were okay. They don't start...
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