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    Ewww Yuk My Duck ate a Baby Bird

    Thanks Miss Prissy -- I new they were omnivors, but had no idea that they ate birds. It just somehow seems so "impolite." But I guess we mamamls dine on one another. Anyway, my cutsy "Donald Duck" image of them is forever shattered.
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    Ewww Yuk My Duck ate a Baby Bird

    I've been raising a few ducks for 3 or 4 years (diferent birds every year.) They free range plus I feed them duck food. I have seen them eat snails and frogs several times, but yesterday they totally grossed me out by eating a fledgling bird, probably a sparrow or tit. They were really...
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    Restless Chickens

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    Whose been spurred???

    I have and it hurts like crazy, and left a bruise. The culprit a bantam Polish. The only person he won't attack is my husband.
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    Help - Need someone who speaks Duckeese for translation services

    I told my ducks to go stretch their legs... obviously something got lost in translation...
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    The Kisser Cheats -Species ambivalent

    A day or two ago I posted a series of pix with my roo Elvis and my hen MinnieMe "kissing" Well, Elvis has taken a shine to my duck Peep who just raised a bunch of ducklings, and is laying eggs again. I dont have a drake. (We bought fertilized eggs for her last brood) He mounts her, holding...
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    The Kiss

    He is a Polish crested and mean as hell. If you have kids, i wouldn't have him around.
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    What's the weather like where you are?

    Southern Poland - warm but overcast - looks like a thunder storm is coming..
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    Free ranging questions

    Hi I have 7 Bantam (they call them lilliput here in Poland) and they go all over our property which is about the size of 2 city blocks. Don't know if that is normal behavior or not, but the farmer next door has chickens that range a lot farther as his property is not fenced. We may just have...
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    The Kiss

    Hello. I am a newbie here, but have enjoyed lurking. I have really learned alot. (My first post was on the emergency board and was really impressed by the knowledge and friendliness of those who helped me.) I was watching some of my peeps yesterday and I swear this Rooster and hen were...
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    Chick with Deformed beak - SAD News - Chick dead

    Thanks. I'll try oatmeal in the morning. He is asleep now. BTW - I am a former Portland Oregonian.
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    Chick with Deformed beak - SAD News - Chick dead

    Thanks for the reply. Even after five years, you are about two words ahead of me in the Polish department. The chick is unable to open its mouth. Is it all right to kind of push food in gently? I am feeding it egg yolk right now cuz that is all I have. (Hard boiled then a bit of water mixed...
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    Chick with Deformed beak - SAD News - Chick dead

    Thank you all for you kind advice. Yesterday my lil chick went to farmyard heaven. He developed a large swelling in on his center left front. It was transparent, almost like a gas filled bubble, and he was apparently in distress, so my very kind neighbor offered to euthinize him. I am...
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