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    Aggressive Rooster! Any Way to Keep him from hurting Children?

    Thank you both for your replies, I was thinking about making a new fence area and fencing them back in, but my husband doesn't think that would be fair to all of the others. We actually do have two other bantam roosters and they do not go after anyone but the one bantam will chase the big nasty...
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    Aggressive Rooster! Any Way to Keep him from hurting Children?

    Hi, I have a two year old rooster and last winter our fences gave in form all of the snow, so now all of our chickens are free to roam. Only problem is our Rooster likes to go after everyone, company and even ups guy. We have two children ages 2 and 3 and I can't turn my back because I'm afraid...
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    eggs and chicks gone, why?

    Hi, thanks so much for the reply, she had laid on 17 eggs in early spring and she would gradually get rid of one or two until we knew her time was up we removed the rest, but this time she had started out with six and has kept all six, today is day 28, there was still 6 lastnight, this morning...
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    eggs are gone and no babies to be found, what happened??

    Our Mama Mallard has been laying on her six eggs for about 27, 28 days now, we figured they should have hatched by yesterday or today, we went out today to check and five eggs were gone, no chicks, no left over shells, there was one egg left and it has sound and movement in it so we took that...
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    eggs and chicks gone, why?

    Our Mama Mallard has been laying on her six eggs for about 27, 28 days now, we figured they should have hatched by yesterday or today, we went out today to check and five eggs were gone, no chicks, no left over shells, there was one egg left and it has sound and movement in it so we took that...
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    Eggs Are gone and No Babies

    Our Mama Mallard has been laying on her six eggs for about 27, 28 days now, we figured they should have hatched by yesterday or today, we went out today to check and five eggs were gone, no chicks, no left over shells, there was one egg left and it has sound and movement in it so we took that...
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    MY duck lost his bill

    Hi again all, thanks so much for all of your responses, to answer some of other peoples comments, yes this is a pet duck not a table duck as are all of our chickens, so it was very hard for us to see him this way and we were pretty sure he was suffering, so we brought him down to the local vet...
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    MY duck lost his bill

    what does culling mean?
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    MY duck lost his bill

    Thats what I was thinking was maybe something bite it off, but the cold wheather still seems like the culpprit in my mind, we live in upstate ny, and it has got to 20 below this week, we only have four ducks, 3 males and 1 female, we got them this spring, its new to us we have always just had...
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    MY duck lost his bill

    sorry, no picture, my camera isn't working
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    MY duck lost his bill

    no, he can't eat or drink, we are thinking of putting him down, do you think it could have froze off in the water?
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    MY duck lost his bill

    Hi, I just noticed that my duck lost his bill, I am new to having ducks, is there something wrong with him or does this happen sometimes, please help!!!!! thanks so much!
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    We had to help our one chicken hatch, and it is doing wonderful!!!

    Hi all, we finally decided it was time to help our little chicky out and it is doing fine, we think it was just way to big for the egg, it is so cute, we have pics of that one and our other two that hatched yesterday, we also had one more hatch today on its own, so we have a total of four so...
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    How long after piping should we wait for arrival or before helping it

    How long should we wait after piping
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    Okay, here we go again, piping for over a day and still not here

    Okay two of our eight hatch early early saturday morning, somewhere before 10 am, not we have one more who has been piped since early yesterday also, we though he/she would have been here over night but nothing yet. We can here it chirping inside, should we help it out or let it go longer? We...
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