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New to Runners, if you saw my posts. Questions! 1) Do your runners reside with your chickens? 2) What kind of water source do you have for them, pond? Pool? Reason I ask. Our chickens, Muscovies, Turkey and Rabbit share our main run and coop. It is pretty much at capacity, esp. since we...

Not yet! We are thinking a theme name for the group like Star Trek based or Star Wars.... ya, we are geeks!LOL Hubby just got home and is gushing over them! :D

I ordered them through Purely Poultry and they apparently work with hatcheries. Mixed reviews about them online, either loved them or had issues but it did seem most of the issues were resolved with either refund or replacement chicks. They shipped out of Thief Run, Minnesota. When I googled...

SQUEEEEE!!! They are here! All arrived safely!!! And ALIVE! They look healthy, all have drank lots of water and eaten food and are running around like crazy in the brooder. I can ID them! The black, the blue, the emery penciled should be the darker spotted one, penciled should be lighter one...

Yep! That is the coloring hubby really wanted but I didn't want to end up with all of the same. So we spread the wealth around when we picked! He is hoping for a drake in those...which is the reason we got 2. How soon can you tell drakes from hens? Without sexing them. We SUCK at that. Sexed...

Good to know! Only reason we are trying to pond is we have it already. Like I said, it was cleaned out so we shut it down for the Winter and had plans to plant bamboo in it instead as it is a rubber water trough. Then hubby mentioned he would like some runners.... And we rolled with it from...

Not new to ducks, but new to Runners! Found out that Hubby wanted some so.... we ordered and they arrive tomorrow. 6 ducklings unless they add an extra and they all survive. We have Muscovies and have had a Cayuga in the past. We moved our 75 gal. pond off the patio and out to poultry yard for...

Snood is same on both of them. They both have fuzzy downy feathers in a line on back of head and neck. And yep, it is more when our 1 dog goes in the yard. Yeti chases her down and tries to be all tough. Bob is way more mellow unless you are a crow. Bob is also more intelligent. Yeti, while...

CRAP! *sigh Ok..... Well.... I guess "Bob Goblin" is now Bobbie or Bobbette. Yep, little strutting and tail fanning but no gobble. Just chirps and calls and whistles to each other. And here I was patiently waiting for a blue face and beard and squishy face. Guess I will start looking for a...

Ok, so finding INFO more than the basic on MW is FREAKING HARD! I researched the breed but it is all the same info. I knew this is breed I wanted for backyard city folk. They are pets, not food. At this point. Got my 2 poults in February. They were 8 weeks at the time. Born approx. Jan. 1 then...

Broody Muscovy. Went and bought 6 fertilized Muscovy eggs from a local farmer. She kicked out 3 by end of Week 2. 3 left. Yesterday was day 35. She hatched 1 duckling on Sat. morning. We pulled it to put in brooder as our flock is not baby-safe. 2 eggs left. I checked this morning and nothing...

That is what I thought. It was awful last time and the one survivor ended up being a roo and we can't have roos in PDX city limits so we did it all for nothing. And I agree with them being more friendly with hand-raising. We will be doing that then! Thanks! Guess I will drag the big brooder...

So we gave our broody Muscovy 6 fertile Muscovy eggs to sit on(we bought them from a local farmer). They are due to hatch on April 12 or so. She has 3 left. She has kicked the others out of the nest and they disappeared. This is our 2nd time doing this. Usually we just buy chicks/ducklings or...

So far, they are GREAT! Now in chicken pen. Spent the weekend free ranging in the yard together. No issues. We trimmed a wing on each. They can still roost but not fly away hopefully. I do childcare so names are Yeti and Bob Goblin. They are so cute. Can't wait until hopefully they get more...