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    Rescued Mallard Duckling

    Thanks! I didn't scroll down the forum list long enough to see the duck category. I'll check there. Does anyone know how I can move my post over there?
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    Rescued Mallard Duckling

    Monday night I was setting up my brooder for my chicks that were to arrive Tuesday, when a friend called to tell me she found a lone mallard duckling in the road in front of her house (she lives in the city). No mama to be found anywhere. She brought it to me and I put it in my brooder. It's...
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    Dixie Rainbow Grow Out Journal - S&G Poultry

    I raised these last year and was very disappointed. I believe we butchered at 13 or 14 weeks and most of the birds were small: 3-4 lbs dressed. My digital kitchen scale only goes to 4 1/2 lbs and I had a handful of birds over that. For the amount of food they ate, I don't think they were...
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    Introducing one pullet to a mature flock?

    This spring we hatched 5 chicks to add to our flock of 13 hens (all about 18 months old). At about 10 weeks of age, we put them in our meat bird tractor near our regular chicken run so the chickens could get to know each other. This lasted about 3 days when I discovered that a predator...
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    Dead broody hen!? *update*

    Thanks for all the replies. Now I know to listen to *my* instincts when I don't think a hen is getting up while broody.
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    Dead broody hen!? *update*

    Quote: We moved her because that is what I had read here to do. I thought it was to protect her and her chicks from the other hens.
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    Dead broody hen!? *update*

    Yep, she's definitely dead. I started the incubator right after I wrote the first post, but the eggs under her were very cool. A few of the eggs had a bit of a funk, but they were also the ones that had her bodily fluids on them. They're in the incubator right now, so we'll see. They're on...
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    Dead broody hen!? *update*

    We had a hen that went broody a little over two weeks ago, so we moved her to our empty meat bird tractor. We put it on fresh grass with some food and water, and made her a nice nest out of a rubbermade tote and some straw. She was sitting on 10 eggs. It appears as though she...
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    Power went out, had to transport incubator!

    Our power went out this afternoon and with no way of knowing when it would come back on, I decided to take the incubator with me to work. The egg (water wiggler) temp got down to 92, but climbed nicely once I got it back up and running. Temps were below normal for about 1 1/2 hours. Was this...
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    Eggs taking hours to come back to temp after turning !?

    Thanks for the advice everyone! It does have a heat sink in there and a fan, so I'm thinking that tipping the whole bator is the way to go. It has been holding a nice temp now, so in a few hours I'm going to take out the egg carton lid I'm using to prop the eggs and put one of hubby's...
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    Eggs taking hours to come back to temp after turning !?

    We built a homemade bator out of a styrofoam ice chest. I have two thermometers: one with a probe inside a water wiggler and one measuring the air temp. We test ran it all weekend and everytime we opened and fiddled with it, the wiggler always bounced back to temp quickly. We put the eggs in...
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    need quick help regarding adding a rooster to a flock

    Thanks for the advice everyone. My friend just dropped him off. I moved my (empty) meat bird hoop house onto fresh grass where he and the hens can see each other. It is half tarped so he has weather shelter and we'll add a roost for him when my husband gets home. I think he'll be quite...
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    need quick help regarding adding a rooster to a flock

    I normally would do all the research first, but a friend called and needs to relocate her rooster asap. They live in the city and already have the cops and city attorney on them about their chickens even though they're legal. One of their pullets turned out to be a roo and they've been trying...
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    When can an injured chicken rejoin the flock?

    I have a 7 week old colored ranger rooster that we discovered on Friday with all his tail feathers missing and a raw bloody rear end. He was just standing there dripping blood and letting the other chickens pick at his wound. I brought him into the garage and put him in a large box with...
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    Dixie Rainbow Grow Out Journal - S&G Poultry

    Thanks for starting this journal! I also received Dixie Rainbows the week yours came. So far so good. They're all active and growing well.
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