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I have 6 goats getting ready to kid soon. I'm very excited! I have a question though. The does had CDT and booster but I somehow missed the yearly dose 8 months ago so I'm wondering if I need to do another booster or if it will still be effective being that far out.

That's what one did to my guinea fowl last year too. This year I caught one chasing my duck off her nest and trying to eat her eggs :hit.

Welcome:frow! You have come to the right place for great people and great information. Would love to see pictures of your new feather babies when you get a chance!

First I want to apologize for giving bad advice of relocating. But also thank @EggSighted4Life and @cmom because I hadn't thought about it like that. The reason we let the raccoon we caught go back into the woods behind our house was in case it had babies so I don't know why I didn't think about...

:hugs I am so sorry for your loss. We lost a few chickens early in the day to a raccoon a couple years ago. That's when I learned that raccoons will sometimes be out during the day to find food for their new babies. I hope you are able to catch it to get rid of it. Im sure it will probably be...

All fun ideas.i have hay bales which my girls love and have made their own pile to scratch through here and there but I love the stair idea for some reason I ha not ever thought of hanging an apple for them. Thanks for all the great ideas!

So sorry for your loss:hugs

That's awesome, can't wait to see pictures!! Very exciting:celebrate! Congrats!!

So sorry about your loss . I hope you catch whatever it is. If it is a raccoon don't release it anywhere close if you release it. It will come back. I would guess the same with other predators as well. I hope your other hens recover :hugs.

I usually start giving grit free choice around 3 or 4 weeks old and I keep mine on chick starter/grower until they start to lay then I switch them to layer feed which for most of my girls has been around 18 or 20 weeks give or take.

This is good information to have. I hadnt thought about using towels. I love your pictures too. I started out with chickens as well and decided I wanted ducklings. I thought I was prepared but you aren't kidding when you say they grow fast! They are ouside in their house and run now and are very...

Oh wow! How scary. I'm glad your ducklings are ok. Thank you for posting that!

Oh wow! I wasn't that brave. I started with 6. A raccoon got into our coop when they were a couple years old. Dug under the door only completely killed 1 (which is too many)but messed up the egg laying for the rest for a long time. The rest are long gone but they were good birds. I will have to...

We have 36 chickens and 7 ducks now :love

Our first birds were RIRs. They were great. Very friendly towards us and each other. They would eat snacks from our hands and even jump up to get a snack if you held it out for them. I liked the personalities they had. Of course being our first flock they got a ton of attention from the get go.