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    What do y'all do with older hens?

    I love that you have a flock of Roos!! Everyone thinks I am weird because I have a flock of Drakes! My boys are HILARIOUS! Four runner ducks and one jumbo Pekin (He is in charge lol) I have had all my ducks since babies and they all stick together. I have my lovely chickens and four geese and...
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    What do y'all do with older hens?

    Thanks. Although for me I don’t believe letting the older girls stay is being generous. Like I mentioned in my post all our birds have been raised here since they were babies and since I made the decision to bring them here and raise them, I feel they deserve to stay here and live out their...
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    What do y'all do with older hens?

    Our birds are family to us. I have two older, retired hens. They are great at teaching younger chickens the ins and outs of chicken life and they come right up to us for treats and snuggles. They are easy to take care of. We let them live out their golden days until the very end!
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    dealing with chicken deaths

    Really sorry to hear about your baby. I HATE hawks. They are the only predator in our area and I have lost three chickens over the last few years to hawks. I am very attached to my animals as all of them were raised from babies and they are so dear to me. When I had a smaller flock we had them...
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    I got a coyote problem, help!!

    So sorry you lost some of your babies!! We have a 8 foot wood fence that goes all the way around our backyard so no coyote problems. We have aerial predator problems but me and my husband were both Marines and I have no problem shooting one if it’s attacking my animals. We have lost three...
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    Ducks and geese interbreeding

    Yes of course!!! I thought I had posted these!!! So sorry it took so long! Here is my Goose House that my hubs built. Nice and roomy inside. The floor is hard/white/thin plastic material from Lowe’s. Easy to clean and no rotting wood. I have the same in my Chicken coop and Duck House.
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    Ducks and geese interbreeding

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    Do your birds lie? I caught mine! Have a laugh!!!

    I have four Chinese Geese and they love to “talk”. On this day (before they had goslings) they would come and “knock” on the back sliding glass door. They arrived 2 days old and were raised in the house. They are not scared to come in the kitchen for a treat. Anyway this video will show my...
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    How do ducklings find their place in the flock hierarchy?

    Hi! I have four runner ducks and one jumbo Pekin. They are all drakes. I bought the Pekin and my first runner at the feed store in the assorted duck corral. I had zero idea what kind of ducks I was getting since it was “assorted”. The runner Duck was TINY and I fell in love with him/her. Then...
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    Sick Duck, need Advice ASAP

    I am glad to hear your baby girl is doing better!! I have chickens and geese and this was my first year getting ducks. I didn’t know much about them and got them at the feed store in the “assorted ducks” pen. The first one I got was a tiny runner duckling, the second was this extremely large...
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    RIP My beautiful boy.

    Thank you very much for your kind words. Yes it’s so hard because I raised him from a pip squeak who had to fight everyone was he was so tiny. I had no idea he was a rooster. It’s not fair that he died, he wasn’t even a year old. My animals are my babies and they are treated better then most...
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    RIP My beautiful boy.

    Your response is hard to read because I am still very upset about losing him. THANK YOU for taking the time out to send a total stranger a few kind words and for reading my boys story. And yes it is a love story. I still do not know why he got sick and why he died so fast. We do know when we...
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    RIP My beautiful boy.

    Thank you Silkiekeeper, I appreciate your kind words.
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    RIP My beautiful boy.

    He was very well loved and I am still distraught by this. I opened up this site today and his baby photo was the first thing I saw and it made me . Thank you for your kind words.
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    RIP My beautiful boy.

    Thank you very much. He was so special to me.❤️
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