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    hello from NW PA

    Quote: haha my husband is already on top of that! pretty sure he wants to get ducks in the spring! no idea what breeds though, we'll have to look into that... if you had told me a year ago i would have 25 chickens and ducks and who knows what else in the future, i would have told you you were...
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    Stuck in AZ

    Quote: Yup, we are waiting for me to finish my paramedic degree and we are off to Missouri to purchase about 15-30 acres.
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    Stuck in AZ

    Quote: Wifey? Hope this is a mistype. Not cool dude. 3 daughters? You have my sympathy. I do too. You are a Dad for life. No matter how old they are they are still your little girls and if the law allowed you'd be shooting stupid boyfriends before they become stupid sons in law...
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    Thank you BYC, processed our first birds today

    The problem with a box cutter is normally length. If you wouldnt mind a suggestion for a good stout knife, you should check out the CRKT Crawford Kasper (Folding knife). You can pick it up on ebay for around $25.00 which is an absolute steal. If you want to stay with a fixed blade knife, you...
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    We did it! Did in our first Duck the "old fashioned way"

    As for the size of the run, it is around 250-300 square feet, and is only used for evenings. They have a full acre and a half to stretch and run during the day.
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    We did it! Did in our first Duck the "old fashioned way"

    We only have one mallard right now and we dont know when we are going to cull her currently as we have a lot of larger ducks. She DID fly off once. Dusky thought we had attracted a wild duck when she flew from the next yard into the pool. We clipped one of her wings immediately after.
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    We did it! Did in our first Duck the "old fashioned way"

    Quote: I was actually thinking about picking up a pair of good kitchen shears with a decent sized bone breaker for it next time
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    Stuck in AZ

    Tossing up a quick intro as I think I will be hanging around these forums a bit (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Chickens not so much. Started with ducks back in July. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Currently at 30 ducks. (3) What breeds do...
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    80 Year Old Woman Crimninal Charges for Feeding Ducks

    Quote: Here is the thing though. When you let people get away with breaking little laws, yes even this one, they start to be broken more and more. At that point how do you justify actually enforcing the law? How do you choose which laws to enforce? With the economy the way it is as you...
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    80 Year Old Woman Crimninal Charges for Feeding Ducks

    It's a silly law, but a law nonetheless. Of course it would not be an issue if it was a 25 year old because it wouldn't be sensational, which is what the Huffington Post is known for.
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    Ewww! My first kill today. Am sick as a dog ever since. Any thoughts?

    Quote: I haven't done chicken, but on duck you can cut out the vent area and remove the innards before doing a full pluck.
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    Ewww! My first kill today. Am sick as a dog ever since. Any thoughts?

    Quote: Ouch, that had to be hard. Exposing children to the reality of meat animals is rough. I talked to my children after I did each step of the processing, making sure they understood everything that was going on and that it did not scare them. I did not, however, have them present for...
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    Ewww! My first kill today. Am sick as a dog ever since. Any thoughts?

    Quote: While I am extremely new here, I would like to chime in on this. It is quite possible you feel remorse because in your mind, you took a life. In essence, you did. However, one of the things that is harder to wrap your mind around is that it was killed for a reason. The bird was...
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