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    How to help a runt thrive? (Warning, injured chick pic)

    So your theory is that the excess sleeping and generally lethargy is related to her eye being injured and is a shock response?
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    How to help a runt thrive? (Warning, injured chick pic)

    I hatched out Icelandic chicks about five weeks ago and they moved to my friend's property (I've been hatching chicks for her flock) at about 3 weeks old. One, Waffles, was/is kind of the runt of the litter. I noticed while she was with me that she was growing slower than the rest, about a week...
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    Ducks are dangerous

    They're ridiculously lovable. 🥰 My husband has been indifferent about the chickens I've incubated and he'll just sit there and watch the ducks because he thinks they're cute and funny. 🤣
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    Ducks are dangerous

    Dangerously adorable, I mean. #clickbaittitle Really, though, I didn't know what I was getting myself into with these kids. They're hilarious and they always look like they're smiling. Even if they imprint on you, they don't like being picked up. I incubated duck eggs for a friend and I'm...
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    Khaki duck sexing

    Hi! I've read a little on beak sexing khaki campbell ducks and am thoroughly confused. Is a light bean or a dark bean a boy? Thanks!
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Sorry, missed this! I'm in zone 6a (Indiana). I try to get watermelon seeds in the ground as soon as it warms up and then they trellis above the ground so I get at least 3-6 large melons before it's too cold for them to finish ripening. Because they are on a trellis, they get a lot of sun and...
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    I didn't actually look through the pictures already posted on this thread. 😂 I just went through some of my favorite garden pictures from the last two seasons.
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Trellised watermelon. I don't remember what variety this was this year. Maybe Allsweet.
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Mammoth sunflowers in the "plant forest".
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Potato blossoms
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    Ended Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Cherry tomatoes after a rainstorm
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    Splayed duck leg

    How wide would a straw need to be cut?
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    Splayed duck leg

    Hi! I just finished a rolling hatch of khaki campbell duck eggs and one that hatched yesterday never really got up and around. I thought it was just getting acclimated, but today is not moving much and when I tried putting them in their"bath" aka pan pool this morning, legs were pretty well...
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    Staggered duck hatch

    I moved her out with a little stuffie my daughter volunteered and ducky is quiet and seems pretty content under the brooder plate.
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    Staggered duck hatch

    Hi! I got a dozen duck eggs from somebody nearby and her ducks had collected all their eggs into a massive clutch of eggs so they are all different lengths along. I think two other eggs might hatch in the next 24-36hrs, but the first duckling has already hatched. Will s/he be ok in the brooder...
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