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    How sensitive are duck feet?

    Good point. Thanks for your reply.
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    How sensitive are duck feet?

    I'm wanting to try to keep my Runner Ducks out of a small area of ferns and hosta. I've already invested in two rows of landscaping pavers (approximately 14" tall) but they have no problem climbing right over. I was looking on the Gardners.com website and they are advertising a product called...
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    Beltsville Turkeys

    I have successfully raised several different breeds of chickens, runner ducks, and quail over the past few years as a hobby and wanted to try out turkeys. Since my space is limited, I decided to go with a smaller breed of turkey and after reading great things about the Beltsville hatching eggs...
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    Hanging CDs To Keep Hawks Away

    I've got my chicken run totally protected from above with avian netting. As it gets closer to school being out though, I'm thinking about letting my chickens free-range in the backyard. Since we have a pool, we will be outside most of the day and can watch for the hawks. (I figure with all...
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    Marble sized egg

    LOL!!!! I can't wait to tell my eleven year-old son what it's called! Thanks for getting back with me. I was worried that something had "stopped" her up.
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    Marble sized egg

    Both of my white leghorns have been laying good sized eggs for the past several months. However, once last week and again today I went to the nest box and found an egg the size of a marble. The one that was lain last week did not have a yolk inside it so I assume that the one I got today won't...
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    areal predator netting

    I second the aviary netting. I got a 30' x 50' piece on Ebay (much cheaper than at a store) and I attached it with a staple gun from coop to trees to run so that it is pulled taunt. I have a center beam in the middle which I hang plants from. The netting is barely visible from a distance so...
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    How big does a chicken need to be that it isn't HAWK BAIT anymore?

    I put avairy netting over my run and used the staple gun to pull it taunt. It is almost invisible unless you're right up on it so it doesn't look unsightly. My understanding is that even though it's lightweight, it is very strong. I got mine (30' x 50') off of Ebay for much less than what...
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    Food grade DE - 4 chickens

    I've read a few threads on DE lately and even though I've raised chickens for several years now, I've never heard of it before. Help out my ignorance. What exactly is it and what will it do for my ladies? Robbie
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    Incubator too hot

    Quote: I only put them in the incubator yesterday around 6:30 p.m. I guess it's just a wait and see game. I thought someone else might have gone through something similar.
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    Incubator too hot

    I just put hatching eggs in my incubator yesterday. I had everything set perfectly at 99.5 degrees. Then, without me knowing it, the little brother of my son's friend turned up the temp on the incubator. This would have been around 8:30 last night. I didn't notice it until this morning...
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    What killed my chicken?

    My pen is one of those dog pens from Tractor Supply Company and my dad built me a wooden roof on top of it. I don't see anything coming in from the top. I guess I messed up thinking that the chicken wire was small enough. Silkies are so small anyway . . .
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    What killed my chicken?

    Thanks for all your replies. The only thing that puzzles me about the racoon is that I put chicken wire around the bottom 2 ft. of the pen just as many on this site suggested so that their little heads couldn't fit through. I really don't think that we have mink here in West Tennessee and...
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    What killed my chicken?

    Last May I became a chicken owner when I successfully hatched two silkie chicks with my third grade class. In July I increased my flock to six with the addition of four mail ordered silkie chicks. While I was raising the chicks indoors and after I moved my wonderful pets outside to their new...
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