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    Nervous/Anxious Hen

    I've found that anxious, timid, scared chickens newly introduced to our ranging garden will get over their anxieties if left to chill out and explore their surroundings and make new friends. It may take 2 or 3 weeks. Also, we found that when approaching poultry to not do so facing full-on. Angle...
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    Call ducklings - in November!

    Thanks for that reassurance. The morning of the hatching, I wrote, "Well, not a phantom brood after-all. Defying all the odds 'Zoomy' has begun to hatch her clutch. We managed to take one quick photo as 4 have hatched and we're leaving her to hatch the rest. Hatching ducklings in Autumn!? I ask...
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    Call ducklings - in November!

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    Duckling and Gosling Brooder Temperature Requirements?

    Day 2
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    Duckling and Gosling Brooder Temperature Requirements?

    The link has moved slightly to https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g8920
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    Chirpy has hatched 4 ducklings

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    Chirpy has hatched 4 ducklings

    Chirpy is an Appleyard Call Duck, we have various types of Call Duck drakes any of whom could be the fathers.
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    Chirpy has hatched 4 ducklings

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    Red Legged Partridge (Chukar) orphans

    I came home 3 days ago and a Red Legged Partridge was 'waiting' outside our duck pen. She had about 10 chicks with her. They were so tiny. I think they were hatched the same day. Then I left them alone. Today we came home to find her outside out back door and she all the chicks under her wings...
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    Our cockerel is not well.

    UPDATE: The cockerel is out and about in the sunshine again. He's much brighter. At 2 am (it's 3:20 pm here now) I gave him electrolyte by syringe (without needle - just to get it in his beak), not much. By 7 am he was crowing again and his eyes much brighter. I kept him in with electrolyte in...
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    Call Ducks or Bantams...Crazy Animals Around the Farm

    We keep Call Ducks. 10 ducklings this year raising our population to 24 presently. All born here apart from 6.
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    Our cockerel is not well.

    Thanks for your reply ChickNanny13. We've checked the Layers Pellets, no added Calcium, organic feed mix. I'm giving him Electolyte this evening in his water and removed the pellets until the morning. We're in Dorset, England. He's inside the house in a quiet dark room, it's 19º C, his whiteness...
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    Our cockerel is not well.

    Our cockerel is not well. He's 25 weeks old. Today slowed right down and then by this afternoon was sitting down, head almost touching the ground and I was able to just walk up to him and pick him up, we haven't handled him much so normally he runs away, but not today. We've brought him inside...
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    What breed is our cockerel 'Doodle'?

    ... bear in mind we're in Dorset, that's Dorset England not Ontario. Dood takes himself very seriously. He has an important job to do knowing everything about his domain and everyone in it.
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    What breed is our cockerel 'Doodle'?

    We'd be grateful if you could identify the breed of our cockerel 'Doodle'. He's a lovely lad. Very gentle in nature and looks after his girls. Often pointing out nibbles for them and crowing proudly. He lives to serve too! But, we've lost a couple of hens lately (old age) and would consider...
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