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    How to get Runners to eat bugs.

    Friends of mine who are new to ducks bought Runners because the research they did led them to believe that they would eat bugs and not garden plants. They have discovered the ducks really like pea plants and don't seem to know that they are supposed to eat bugs. She asked me yesterday how to...
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    can chickens hatch guinea eggs?

    My wonderful little banty hens have gone broody and after hatching some quail eggs for a friend he's given me some guinea eggs to put under them. Has anyone had experience with doing this?
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    my 1st broody hen, what do I do?

    she's several years old, has picked her favorite nest box and hasn't moved in 4 days. but she only has one egg under her. I've been leaving it under her thinking that when it doesn't hatch she'll stop brooding. Is this the right way to go about it? or should I take it away?
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    dog attacked roo need 1st aid info

    on my home and there he was sitting in the road. practically no feathers on his back nor tail. two fifty-cent piece size pieces of skin missing from back and in one of those a puncture wound. legs and wings appear to be ok other than missing feathers. he's shaking from what I can only...
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    ckn math strikes! how old?

    So here's the situation... we decided to get banties because we could fit more of them in our small pen. We were lucky enough to find a home to take all of extra roos (appr. 8). She just loves to hear them crow Well I did not get any EEs with my mix of banties They turned out to be silkies...
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    Help naming chickens. What chicken names

    check out the coops link here on the home page they got some pretty nice looking ones give you ideas for builing your own
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    Is my favourite chicken a roo?

    I like a soft chocolate chip with milk!!!
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    fuzzy cheeks, help me learn and educate

    Oh thankyou most knowledged knower of information That was absolutly just what I was looking for. I cut and pasted your responce and sent it to my friend.
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    Buff laced frizzle Polish - boy or girl?

    some many pretty chicks so little yard... I want me one of those too! (or maybe two) Someone stop me I feel chicken math starting to rear it's head
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    fuzzy cheeks, help me learn and educate

    So I went and saw a friends flock today and he tells me that he's going to be ordering some Ameracaunas (sp?) later. I spy 2 EE's (the lucky dog) in his flock already and tell him of this. That's not what he was supposed to have gotten from the store he tells me, but that's OK. He tells me...
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    They're heeeeeeereeeee! *pics*

    that just means you'll get eggs that much sooner
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    Sexing 3-4 month old splash SILKIE

    Ooooohh so pretty So many pretty ones and so little yard to put them all...
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    newbie like to know breeds of my mixed Bantam flock

    I tried this last week and it didn't turn out, so I took some more pictures this morning and am trying this again. They are 9 weeks old. Would also greatly appreciate any thoughts as to there sexes. I know I've got some that "time will tell". This is Dot or Spot I can never rember which...
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    moving keets to coop

    Raising two keets for the neighbor and figured I'd move them out in the chicken coop/yard when they got to be as big as the young banties out there, but don't know if I can. banties are 9 weeks and keets are one week. by the time the keets get to be at least close to the chicks' size...
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    What is a Guinea treat.

    Ours seems to love those round light brown seeds in the cheap bag of wild bird food. It's the biggest percentage in the bag and in my experience is never actually eaten by a wild bird but is very well liked by the guinea. So it works out well for the nieghbor when he dumps a scoop over the...
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