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    Adding Pekins to my flock???!!!!

    My Pekin's are the most friendly and entertaining of all my ducks, not to mention the most cuddly, give them peas you have a buddy for life!! :wee
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    Going to bed at night

    Ducks love routine. I would get peas and throw some on the ground outside their duck house and also up their ramp. After a few nights they just started to make their way over to their house at dusk and up the ramp even without the peas. Mine really don't like being outside when it starts to...
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    Call ducks.

    Nice egg! :woot Mine all get along fine. Just the occasional squabbling, but nothing serious. good luck!
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    Duck Laying Season

    Mine stopped in November and just started again.
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    need advice on treating ducks that were attacked

    So sorry to hear about your babies. Mine were attached two weeks ago by a mink. I lost 8 calls and two Appleyards. I was devastated! Still am. We caught the mink though, was hiding under the straw. Your pictures do look very similar to the injuries my ducks had. 13 survived with varying...
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    Topic of the Week - Incubating eggs

    Got spoiled on my birthday, got a Brinsea Maxi II EX. On second hatch now, first was 9 for 9. Excellent incubator once you figure out the humidity pump, the instructions that came with it were really vague. Said nothing about wrapping the tubing around the pump so the water wasn't hitting the...
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    Baby chicks aren’t eating?

    Mine didn't start eating until day 4. I found they ate more if I used my fingers to crumble up their food into even finer pieces, much like sand. Did this for the first week or so.
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    d7armstrong

    Sorry, She only breeds Orpingtons, Coppers, Polish, Crested Legbars, Sizzles and some of the harder to find breeds.
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hi New to the site, started with my chickens last October. Just loving it, its really addicting lol. What about you?
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    *Buff Orpington Thread!*

    Love love love my buffs too! have 10 and and 5 chocolates in the brooder and just hatched out 7 Lavenders, they are the cutest chicks their little wings are adourable. They are a pleasure to have, so sweet and friendly.
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hello fellow Canadians! I live in Rockwood Ontario, hour and bit west of Toronto.
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    d7armstrong

    Hi I have Buff, Chocolates & Lavender Orpingtons. I get my chicks and hatching eggs from a local breeder. She has a great variety of Orpingtons. If you are interested I can pass along her number. She is located in Milton Ontario.
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    Ameraucana Breed question??? Also, umbilical chord question.

    I found my Ameraucana rooster grew much faster than the hen and had muffs early on.
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    Hello everyone!

    Great site, I have learned so much from all of you, so thank you! I live in Ontario Canada and have had the pleasure of keeping chickens for about a year now. I just hatched my first chicks yesterday, 7 out of 9 Lavender Orpingtons. Was quite the experience for sure. I think I took more pic's...
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