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    Ducks and gardens

    My dog would love the pool too.! I hadn't thought of that, actually. I suppose he'd go wading round duck watching just as he goes chicken watching... If I knew how to post pictures, I'd show you all our dog and his friend the cockerel! Seriously though, I'm imagining a small pond, the bottom of...
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    Ducks and gardens

    Thanks for your ideas, everyone. The Campbell and runner ducks are gorgeous! I think I ve gathered that I'd have to keep ducks out of my veg. That means I could only have ducks that didn't fly over the fence. Net over the top just isn't practical. Actually, I imagined ducks not only chomping...
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    Ducks and gardens

    Your replies on ducks and vegetables are all rather discouraging. It was a friend of mine who gave me the idea as she said they ate the nasty beasties in her garden by flying over their fence só were quite useful. My hens free range and i vê got a fence round my veg to protect them from my hens...
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    Ducks and gardens

    Has anyone tried keeping ducks in a vegetable patch ?. I heard they ate caterpillars and other nasties, What do you need for ducks ? I mean, what sort of artificial pond, food and, of course, where do they sleep at night ? I ve got a.bunch of hens, but so far haven't dared ducks as I m a bit...
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    Dying chicks

    It s old fashioned rabbit hutches made of cement that the farmers round here use for their broody hens (I live in France). I keep wondering if it could have been mites on the hen coop? If they,bite the hens during the night, they must surely bite the chicks too? In any case, I ve cleaned out and...
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    Dying chicks

    As for cocci, how do you stop it? As I said, I m trying rabbit hutches, and they re easier to clean than my chicken coop, where I had to get down on hands and knees in the straw...
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    Dying chicks

    Thanks for the idea. I don t have a brooder, but I got some rabbit hutches and am trying two lots of chicks and mums in there. So far so good, but they re barely a week old yet.
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    Dying chicks

    Has anyone ever had problems with chicks from a broody hen dying off? My half silkie, Tufty, had 5 chicks in spring. After about a week, they started dying, and I found one dead every morning until they all died. After about a month, poor Tufty got broody again and 7 chicks hatched out. One...
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