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    Scots Grey eggs

    Very happy, our SG eggs came first in the local show. Must have been around 40 eggs being shown so not like it was only a couple to choose from. OH is now selling them as “award winning eggs”, honestly, he’s a born salesman. LOL
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    Limping ducks, should we do more?

    I had this recently with one of my ducks. As well as upping their niacin intake (tabs or nut.yst) also check their foot for any cuts and treat accordingly. For mine there was a tiny cut which I cleaned up and used a herbal prep I keep around the house for using on us. Applied for 3 days and...
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    Adult chicken ataxic

    Sorry what is E? As in vitamin E? I’m an 80’s chick and an E is something else completely to us lol
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    Adult chicken ataxic

    We have a just over a year old Plymouth Rock. She has always run a little funny since we got her as a puller, limping to one side. Over the last 4wks, she lost some neck feathers, started with a head twitch and yesterday I noticed she had trouble balancing and kept falling to the right as that...
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    Integration done but no eggs.

    Is there anything in particular we can do to make her feel safer? I’m not worried about getting eggs from her we’ve more eggs than we can deal with from the 3 hens and 2 ducks. But I’d like her to feel secure in her environment.
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    Integration done but no eggs.

    We bought another hen, approx. 1yr old same as the 3 hens we have, as one of our hens was being somewhat ignored by the other two. Two Scot’s greys were ignoring the Plymouth Rock. I’d been watching a programme on chickens which said chickens seem to like other chickens the same colour and I...
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    Ducks and Chickens Living Together?

    Our ducks n chickens were housed together when they were young, the ducks really attached themselves to the chooks and are still attached to them. The amount of cleaning required was huge as the ducks make such a soggy mess and all the eggs, ducks and chicken, were dirty. We got a separate...
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    Drakes pros and cons

    Thanks Isadora. I don’t really want a drake, but feel bad for the girls.
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    Drakes pros and cons

    I’m really struggling with whether or not to get a drake. We have 2 LF silver appleyard hens and 3 chickens (2 Scot’s greys and one partridge Plymouth Rock). The ducks are head bobbing and mounting each other lots and one now vibrates its head when I go to stroke her or offer her treats. I...
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    Hubbie thinks there’s a stray dinosaur in our hen house.

    I know, can’t imagine passing something that huge ouch. We had a welsummer years ago pop an egg over 100gms and she prolapsed soon after. It was only a single yolk egg but boy it was huge. Sadly she went to the big chicken run in the sky as we couldn’t get the prolapsed to stay in.
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    Hubbie thinks there’s a stray dinosaur in our hen house.

    Got a random HUGE egg the other day. Used it this am and it’s our first ever (in 20yrs of keeping chooks) double yolker. both came from our Plymouth Rock who’s coming up for 1yr. Thankfully it wasn’t really any fatter, just a lot longer. Poor wee lass.
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    The mysterious duck eggs

    Did the egg make it to hatching? I’m guessing not or you would have some idea of what type of duck it was.
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    Fertile eggs

    Thanks, biosecurity is my big concern so I was wondering if there was any other way. Will look up insemination.
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    Fertile eggs

    We can’t have a cockerel due to neighbours but I really want to get fertile eggs from our gals. Any suggestions. Is there a way to get around not being able to have a cockerel or is it buy hatching eggs forever?
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    Cracking sound

    No. They used to all sleep together in the one coop and even then it was a bit hit n miss as to whether they went away. They now have shiny new separate coops and whilst the ducks rarely go away, the chickens were putting themselves to bed with only a sporadic camp out, now it’s most nights...
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