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    Silent Rooster with comb and Waddle Shrinking ? Health issue or normal?

    Does your roosters waddle or comb change size this dramatically?
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    Silent Rooster with comb and Waddle Shrinking ? Health issue or normal?

    Hello I am some what new to chicken keeping and this is my first rooster, I was flipping through pictures of him today and realized his comb and waddle have shrunk significantly. The left picture was taken 11/11/14 he is a craigs list Jersey Giant and I was told he is 7 months old, the...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    How many eggs hatch out of 10 on average for you all? What do your mother ducks do with the ones that are weak or don't make it? I am still baffled by it all. She has since moved over to the other side of the coop and is sitting on 15 more eggs...I am not sure what to do, her sisters don't seem...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    They are free range and eat all the bugs and grass in my large yard as well as eating as much as they want of a really good food. Here is the brand and ingredients: http://patriotfarmandfeed.com/product/grower/ as well as; http://www.scratchandpeck.com/ and vegetable table scraps oatmeal...
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    Cayuga Duckling Dead on Arrival.. another three dead in the following 5 hours..

    I am so sorry to hear about your ordeal, I am going through a similar situation and my eggs were not shipped anywhere! I am learning and wish I could give you more advise, Hopefully others will chime in
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Update: Hello again, I am back with an update and more questions, for all the pros out there. Eight of the ten that hatched so far are really active and healthy, like the one I found alive and well under the Momma duck. Two of them well, they were slow to come out of the shell and then they...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Thanks for your input, I did not think of it that way, she could have treated them as if they were a rodent because she has never had ducklings. And they do look a bit like mice when they first pop out, but then I think about mother instinct and the chirping. As well as the fact that one was...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Also now that I think about it, there was blood in the nest on some of the eggs the day before all this happened, so I fear that maybe one hatched early and who knows what happend to it.... It is hard to say for certain, and I did not think much about it at the time but now, well I am not so sure.
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Yes I could see that, but she started hurting them before I got there, then after I left her for hours alone...she continued, when I peeked in they were gone. Maybe she would have "picked" her favorites and I could have left her...but seeing first hand the brutality in there, I could not bring...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Thank you for you kind words and advise, It was very traumatizing to witness, I am scared to reintroduce her to them. I feel like I already have two deaths on my hands, not sure how many more murders my heart can handle. The weirdest part to me is she ate them. *Sigh* I have a lot of learning to...
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    Bad Mother Duck eating babies??! Help!

    Hello, I was wanting to ask you all about something that is not fun to talk about but I have to ask someone who knows more than me. Well let me start by saying I have 4 full grown muscovy females/ sisters and they are healthy. This year I introduced a male living with them, and for the first...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: QUARTER MILLION BYC Members

    3/11/2014 @ 8:00 pm
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    My Back Yard Hens and Muscovies "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Gandhi Muscovy Mania!! (Above) My Rhode Island White Hen I named her Olga, She is an egg machine! (Behind her in the background is her sister Ester) (Above...
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    Can you all tell from these pictures if my chicken is sick?

    Lately I have been concerned about one of my Rhode island whites Olga, Her comb and or wattle seems too pale, While her sisters seems fine. The first picture is what they looked like last winter, On the left is Ester on the right Olga, the fallowing pictures I took today. This is my first couple...
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    Muscovy Different from normal ducks?

    Hey J's Orpingtons I got 4 muscovies one year ago and have had no problem getting them to coop up. I will give credit where it is due I adopted them when they were 2 months old approx: and they imprinted on my hens, and fallowed them around EVERY WHERE! Including in the coop at night, They are...
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