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    Free Range Ducks? (help/advice)

    Hello, Our Khaki Campbells are friendly ducks, have great predator awareness and they lay 300+ eggs a year. They do find their way to the coop each night and lay their eggs in the coop, chickens even use their nest now and don't lay in the boxes. However, we do not have a lake so I'm sure that...
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    Does anyone keep a khaki campbell drake in with their calls.

    We keep our Khaki Campbell drake (with two females Campbells) with our two Magpie Calls (drake/hen). No issues, although at first when the Calls would do the headbob dance the Drake would try and chase the hen down but wasn't successful when he caught her. That didn't last very long and they all...
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    Rooster vs Ninja

    OK my 5 year old son loves to play “chicken restaurant”, which is basically him taking the girls treats in their favorite dust bath area. The girls tolerate him picking them up, even though it appears awkward for them both. He spends a lot of time following them around and even acts like he is a...
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    Hen battling Rooster for dominance

    I am worried about him targeting her now and forcing her out of the flock. He has his favorite girls and has never to my knowledge tried anything with the leghorns. He seems to like the bigger girls (EE, Wyandotte, Buff Orphinton) but then again they are the less dominant ones too. I want the...
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    Hen battling Rooster for dominance

    So my boss hen Smiley, who has for the last 1 ½ years been the uncontested heavy weight champ of the coop is now being challenged by my young rooster. All the other hens gave in without much of a struggle but Smiley is refusing to give up the belt. This weekend there were several battles that...
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    Switching to Ducks from Chickens questions

    We have 7 chickens and recently added 3 ducks to our flock. Two are Khaki Campbell’s and one Powerman 3000 or something (hybrid). The ducks are really cute and do not free range nearly as far as the chickens. They usually just sit around under in the shade. However I do not think that they are...
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    4 out of 13 hens not laying anymore?

    Whenever my Chickens "stop" laying it is because they are eager for a game of hide and seek or egg hunt. It usually takes me a while to hunt down the location but when I do there is generally over a dozen eggs. They excel at this game so if yours are free ranging you might want to take a second...
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    HELP! Chickens perching in trees.

    My chickens did the same thing last summer and I had to do a chicken hunt ever night round them up. It is my personal believe that in my case it was because the coop was too hot. I moved the coop to a shady area and added better ventilation. I haven’t had any more issues but it hasn’t gotten...
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    Chicken obsessed with getting in the house

    Currently we have about seven chickens and six of them act like what I believe is how chickens are supposed to act. Our chickens age range from 6 months to 1 ½ years and they are a mixed flock (2 Leg horns, 1 Easter egger, 1 Wyandotte, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 New Hampshire red and the rooster is...
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    Hello all

    My story…Last spring I made the mistake of letting my wife go unattended to the feed store. Much to my dismay, her and the children brought home 4 baby chicks…I was a little irritated because I knew what this meant for me. As much as she and the children claimed they would take care of them I...
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