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    Our Waterkids

    Our Water-Kids 7 Moscovies Feed me. Feed me. Feed me. 1 Rouen Salvador Dali 13 Runner Ducks 2 African Geese Allen holding Bonnie & Clyde Wanted: 2 Sebastopol Geese 2 Mandrian Ducks *Home available for adoption of any waterfowl or chickens needing home.*
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    First duckling hatched today!

    Another duckling was born/hatched this morning! A blonde one!!! I put it in the box with the first one under a heat lamp-it was kinda damp... It looks like the big brother is pecking it...or dooodling it's hair..I can't tell. Will they be safe in the same brooder or will they peck eachother...
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    First duckling hatched today!

    thanks!
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    First duckling hatched today!

    We had our first baby duck hatch today and three more have little holes in their eggs! She's so sweet!! A little Runner Duck... Questions, though! I only have medicated chick starter, do I feed the duckling that? I put a teeny bit of water in a babyfood jar lid becuase I've had chicks drown...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    I fed the new chicks the chick starter from the co-op, it was a mash type texture. I fed this and after the first batch died within the first 72 hours, they all did fine. I fed them this bag for about 3 weeks. Then we ran out and I gave them crack corn and they loved it. They ate this for about...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    One side is a bird cage wire and the other is a wood door; so half door and half open wire for venilation. The brand of food, it's in a brown bag and is made at our Co-op, I believe; there's no brand on it. We had 3 little chicks hatch yesterday in our incubator and I'm afraid to put them with...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    And no, I didn't opt for the hatchery to vaccinate them. I'm thinking that might have been my mistake. I started them on chick starter for the first 3 weeks, ran out then gave them a bit of the cracked corn. (Sorry, left that part out.) The brooder that was built for them had contact paper...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    So sorry for not being able to log on until now! I missed my BYCs. Okay, update, I threw out the chick starter as I suspected it was a bad batch. And I bought the little guys another brand of chick starter which is less mash in texture and is kind of crumbly; they like it better and it lasts...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    Our chicks were healthy, happy, chirping and eating. They were getting crowded so we put half in the brooder and half in another brooder. We moved the first brooder out on the porch-still with heat lamp and a blanket over the small window to keep heat in. That night it was around 50 degrees...
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    Help! My Muscovies won't stay home!

    It's funny they're not. They go through one of our neighbor's yard (he sits outside drinking beer, shooting and yelling at his dog-THAT would scare me) and they walk a long way. I just don't get it. We put them in my neighbor & friend's pond on the other side of the cranky neighbor and they...
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    Help! My Muscovies won't stay home!

    We have a nice big pond, far off the road and our Muscovies were raised here. For the past month, they've been waddling through the woods into our neighbor's pond and ticking off our should-be-living-in-the-city-suburbs neighbors. "Ducks poo!" is what we hear. And we're like, no, really?!?! We...
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    For sale - AL - 14 mixed "yardbird" eggs, $15 shipped

    Hi, Do you have any more? Thanks!
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    Just rescued a lot of chicks from chicken houses....Help, please

    Oh, I'm sorry you've lost yours. Out of 50 we only have 10 at the most left. But I am glad they get a small peice of joy in their short lives. Yours looked nice and healthy. I am happy you took them in...
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    Just rescued a lot of chicks from chicken houses....Help, please

    Forgot to post, here's a pic of one being spoiled....
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    Bantams let out of the coop **Updates** (PHOTOS)

    Update & photos on the Namkao Farm Our chickens are mating and getting more tame, having fun around the farm, we had our first livestock birth--Miss Mary had twins! They look like cows and nothing like her..very funny... The kids enjoyed a short day of sunshine and got to run around barefoot...
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