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    Do exit drains clog in duck pools?

    Hi! We are starting the planning to get some ducks (thinking maybe 4-6? for meat and eggs). We will be setting up some sort of little pool / pond for them, using a stock tank probably or something like that, probably buried in the ground. We will have water from our spring overflow that we...
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    4-day-old chicks - can I feed them organic buckwheat groats? raw, cooked?

    Hi! I am getting moved into our new place and unpacking boxes, and have a small bag of unused Bob's Red Mill organic buckwheat groats. I don't think they are necessarily raw, so I don't think they'll sprout, but I am wondering if I can mix them into the chick starter that I have, or if I can...
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    Regulating Temperature in Outdoor Brooder

    I was looking at that heating pad thread, and will try that. Do you just set it at one temp at bedtime, to handle the overnight lows, and then turn it down in the morning to the lowest setting, to compensate for daytime highs? I am not so worried about keeping the entire brooder at a steady...
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    New Member in SW Oregon

    The nickname came from my childhood nickname (Mouse) and my husband's callsign name for his activities: Blue Bandit. When we got married, we became the Bandit family, LOL! ;-) Everyone around here buys and sells homegrown and homeraised goodies, and organic-fed, free-range eggs are a big...
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    New Member in SW Oregon

    Hey everyone! I'm MouseBandit, from the SW corner of Oregon. :-) We just bought a new property, and are getting busy setting up infrastructure for our chickies. We have 4 layers (auracanas) from last fall's hatch, and two new batches of chicks, a set that are 4 weeks old, including Blue Laced...
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    Regulating Temperature in Outdoor Brooder

    Hi! We just bought a new property and don't have any infrastructure yet for the chickens, so I put together an outdoor brooder shelter for my 2 batches of chickies (one batch 4 weeks, and other is 3 days). It's enclosed all the way around except one side, and my brooders slide into it (one...
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