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    So a Swedish Blue, a Welsh Harlequin, and a Cayuga walk into a coop

    That is good to hear and I agree on the drakes making better pets. My drake was like a dog. He came running up to the car when I got home from school quacking and pacing until I got out to hug him. When they were locked up in their pen he would pace when he saw me and quack so hard until I...
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    So a Swedish Blue, a Welsh Harlequin, and a Cayuga walk into a coop

    I looked at the hatcheries website and realized they do sex ducks (not geese though T.T). Not sure if I want duck eggs, I think I would just like pets so an all drake pen would be fine? I use to love my old drake named Drake. He seemed to be my most social while the girls were skittish. I like...
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    So a Swedish Blue, a Welsh Harlequin, and a Cayuga walk into a coop

    Okay jokes aside, next year I am getting ducks. Last time I had ducks was 10 year ago and they were all pekins but this time I want the duck breeds I really love so I may be ordering them from an online hatchery that ships min of 3 ducklings. Anyways I wanted to know if 1 Swedish Blue, 1 Welsh...
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    Can Deer Netting Keep Hawks and Eagles out?

    I am putting together my run and burying some hardwire mesh cloth bellow the ground around the pen so animals can't dig in and chickens can't dig out. My 4 silkies and 2 ISA browns were outside in the run with me and I started to see 2 eagles already circling around. My mother had gotten me deer...
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    Chick with Leg Injury HELP ASAP

    I have 10 chicks and I JUST noticed one chick has a leg injury and I am not 100% certain what is wrong nor how to fix it nor if she will survive. It's Saturday going on Sunday here so the vets won't be open until Monday to take her in. She can't walk on one foot and is holding it up. Her hip...
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    Our Chickens Ran Away: Can someone help us understand why?

    WOW, it took a duck? I guess some ducks can be small but I always figured ducks were too big to be taken by something like owls or hawks. Maybe an eagle but I never would have suspected an owl. I wonder if what got our ducks who decided to live on the pond was even a snapping turtle then or if...
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    Our Chickens Ran Away: Can someone help us understand why?

    Sadly it sounds like something made a meal of them, anything from dogs, foxes, raccoons, even opossums eat chickens, hawks,eagles, even large house cats that get into your yard can take a chicken. My grandma's cat could if he didn't weight 28lb's and have a mild stroke every time he moved at a...
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    I don't know if watching the tracking is a good thing or a bad thing because I just noticed my chicks sat in a warehouse for about 6 hours straight and I am just imaging incompetent mailmen throwing heavy boxes on their box and squishing them to death or putting them someplace cold or where they...
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    My post office is already closed though T.T and don't open until 9 tomorrow. Meyer's decided to send my the confirmation message AT the very minute the post office closed. According to the tracking info the chicks left the hatchery at 7:04am this morning though and got picked up from the main...
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    And they said post office though I don't know about nearest since the nearest post office for me in in St. Francis but I technically live in Isanti which is half an hour drive to the Isanti post office from my house and the St. Francis one is 2 minutes from my house. Nothing has ever shipped to...
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    I already have bottles of nutri-drench along with electoyites and probiotics. The only problem is if this tracking is correct they are arriving on Wednesday at 3:00pm and my post office closes at 3:30pm and I work that day until 9:00pm at night....if they shipped out today will they even be...
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    So if they show up on Wednesday I can't imagine any of them will be alive then will they T.T
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    My babies have shipped, trying to stay calm

    So I had ordered babies back in January from Meyer that just shipped today at 7 am and I am already getting super nervous. These were probably things I should have asked BEFORE ordering chicks online but I didn't so now my chicks are out there in the big world in a tiny box coming home to me and...
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    Silkie thread!

    You can be about as accurate with this as you can with a coin flip. This is only 50/50 accurate, the proof being my one hen also freaked out and two of my roosters didn't.
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    Run size for 16 chickens

    it should. It's a smaller plow so it can fit through the minis gat. 4 foot gate to keep the big horses from running into it if the gate is left open. As for 'sleeping in' on a Saturday that is impossible on our farm. He raise horses. Even in the winter if you are not out by 7 letting them out...
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