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    Duck or Chicken eggs?

    Thank you. We have discovered that I'm getting 2 duck eggs and about 3 chicken eggs a day. At first the ducks were laying outside by the pool. Now they're laying in the coop on the floor. The chickens still seem to lay where ever they want. I've gotten some plastic eggs and put them in the...
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    Duck or Chicken eggs?

    I guess I'm being thrown off because I thought ducks wouldn't lay for the first year of life.
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    Duck or Chicken eggs?

    I've just started getting eggs from my birds and can't tell if some of them are duck or chicken eggs. My ducks are only 6-7 months old, but some of my eggs are rather big. I have 5 that are the size of XL chicken eggs, 4 white and 1 green. The duck breeds are Rowans (sp?) and Buffs. My...
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    Washingtonians

    Ok, everyone I was thinking of breeding my Porchelain D'Uccles (2 hens and 1 roo). Would anyone here be interested in buying some chicks? I'm not ready to sell eggs yet, I'd like to hatch some out first to see how they do. Here are some pictures taken with my cell phone of my D'Uccles. I...
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    Washingtonians

    Welcome, I'd go for building a wooden coop and if you can just run an extention cord to it for a heat lamp in the winter. If you can put in vents that don't really allow drafts in that's great, think under the eve of the roof. We're putting on 2 windows that will be just hardware cloth and...
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    Washingtonians

    So we went for a hike with some friends and apon coming home a neighbor brought some friends over and they handed me a little duckling and asked me to care for it. I have no problems being able and willing to care for a bird. They said they found it near a fast moving river and that it was all...
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    Post your wood/mandarin duck enclosures!

    Quote: I actually thought about that, but i dont know how they would cope with unoxygenated water that is contaminated with duck poop. Plus its in the wide open, so i dont know how they would deal with the direct sun, especially on 100 degree days. I dont have much knowledge on fish, so i dont...
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    Wild duckling ID needed

    Yeah, I just did a google search on mallard ducklings and ran across a picture of a wood duckling and it looked just like this baby. I so hope it's a male. We were going to order wood ducklings but the price was enough to stop me this year. Was planning on it next year though. My boyfriend...
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    Wild duckling ID needed

    So we went for a hike with some friends and apon coming home a neighbor brought some friends over and they handed me a little duckling and asked me to care for it. I have no problems being able and willing to care for a bird. But I have no idea what kind of duckling this is. They said they...
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    Washingtonians

    Quote: They usually sell the animals at the end of the season too. I need a lamb to help cut my grass........ Got to get a little barn for it first and a run to keep it safe when I'm not home. It'll probably need a friend too. oohhh, maybe I can coax my hubby into it over the next few...
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    LOL Strutting his stuff!!!

    I have a 2 week old that at only a week old strutted when I introduced a new week old baby to the brooder. I'm guessing I've got a boy and he's going to be a hand full, lol.
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    Washingtonians

    Quote: Rabbit hutches are easy. I just built one by myself. Just get some 4x4 for the legs and a plywood top and sides, but make sure there is wire on the inside or the rabbits will chew the wood and get out. A wire bottom and wire front with a door. I couldn't find the clips I wanted for...
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    Washingtonians

    Quote: They usually sell the animals at the end of the season too. I need a lamb to help cut my grass........ Got to get a little barn for it first and a run to keep it safe when I'm not home. It'll probably need a friend too.
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    Bourbon Red Turkeys===I'm trying again**DISASTER HIT**

    I hatched out a Red Bourbon/Black Spanish 2 weeks ago and that little bugger is growing fast. Here's what I did, I got 2 eggs from the feed store for free, laid by some hens that were sold to them to resell. One was a dud, oh and this was only my second time trying to hatch birds, the first...
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    Washingtonians

    I toss slugs and snails in the run too. The ducks eat most of them. The little ones the chickens will eat, but the larger ones they just peck to death. Sure they may not eat them, but they still have fun killing them, gets the job done.
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