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    Hawks eating my chickens Please Help!!

    I agree with the idea of a smaller completely enclosed area. Last year I was given some chickens and bought some mallards to raise. I learned a lot the hard way. Out of 6 Rhode Island Reds, 6 Cornish X's and 8 Mallards I have left only 1 Mallard hen. The Cornish x's of course can't live...
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    Do you laugh at your ducks?

    I almost busted my gut laughing last year when I first gave my half grown Mallards a big enough pool they could dive underwater in. The entire time they were growing up they did everything as a group, never more than inches apart. So they get into this pool, swimming around having a grand time...
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    First time with ducklings...help

    Maybe I'm just dumb and lucky... Last year I raised 8 Mallards together with a dozen Rhode Island Reds, all on Chick Starter with no issues at all. I do own a restaurant and thus have a lot of waste greens I fed/feed them. Not sure of the Niacin content in these greens, but spinach, which the...
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    My Call Duck

    Beautiful Mallards! I would leave her whatever eggs she lays in the nest. They may not all hatch though.
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    "Land Geese"

    They will probably find it on their own eventually. I live on a large creek and our land is about 10 feet above the creek level. Last year I raised 8 Mallard ducks, Once the ducks were full grown I figured they would love the creek, so I would catch one or two and carry them down there and put...
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    brooder design

    Thanks for the welcome, and I'm learning a lot here!
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    brooder design

    I just joined the forum, and I am only raising my second batch of chicks (from a commercial hatchery) but I just discovered something I want to pass along, hopefully I am not posting something that has been talked to death already. Anyway, the brooders I am using are plastic storage bins. Last...
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