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your charging duck is just letting the others know who is boss

the pekin ducks are acting normal, but the rouen is acting a little funny. he will swim around and eat/drink a little, but then will just stand tall at attention, quacking in his low, soft raspy voice for a couple minutes, then go back to doing what he was doing and the other ducks are doing...

I am having the same issue right now with my khaki campbell duck. She is normally attached at the hip, so to speak, to my rouen drake, but this morning he is here, as well as my pekin ducks, but my KC is MIA. good luck, I hope all is well for her

I have read many of the threads on this, but haven't come up with a clear answer. My duck flock consists of a rouen drake, a khaki campbell duck, and 3 pekins, 2 ducks, 1 drake. the pekins are about 3.5 months old now, the other two are about 4 to 4.5 months old. All of my ducks are free...

A.T. Hagan : You do realize the Broad Breasted breeds are the Cornish Xs of the turkey world? Meaning they were not bred to live long lives, but to grow rapidly then be slaughtered at a young (tender) age before their skeletons and organs began to give out. Some folks have kept them alive for...

dont put Jchannel at the edges of the metal roof. that will hold water, which in turn will allow the metal to start rusting at the one place it is most vulnerable, the edge, especially a cut edge. here's 2 ideas for the edge 1, build a small plant ahnger or shelf bracket or something at each...

contrary to ever popular oppinion, I have Bronze Breasted turkeys in with my cornish X chickens. there has never been an issue. I have them in a tractor that has a run of 6 by 8 foot. every so often I let the turkeys out to forage the yard some, they know where home is and dont wonder off...

awesome, I love my turkeys

I currently have a New Zealand mix female that will be bred with my Californian Male I also have 2 male and 4 female Dutch rabbits the first 2 are bred for meat, the dutch, well, some will be bred for meat while some of the kits will be sold as pets This coming friday, I have to go pick up 2...

now if I did that everyone would look at me like I was insane not too many guys wear bras

here is what I built for my cornish. it is 6 foot by 8 foot run, a 2 foot by 6 foot coop all 2 foot high. I built it with a hinged lid for the coop to ease in cleaning it, and a hinged top for the run for ease in cleaning, feeding, and retrieving birds in this pic it isn't finnished, I still...

my dad raised pigs when I was a kid, I wish I could here, but the half the folks in my subdivision would frown on it a little

as far as mulch, I don't know. I couldn't see it really hurting anything, unless it was really matted down with chicken poop. I think I would just put it in the compost pile to till into the soil this fall, that's what I do with all the bedding from my birds' houses

Thanks for the reply. I didnt think about the roost for them, I had figured on a couple heavy tree branches leaning to the corners. Like I said, I am completely new to these birds. will a hen generally sit on her eggs and hatch them herself in captivity like this or will I need to incubate the...

yesterday, on a whim, I found a pair of ringnecks on CL for a decent price, so I thout, why not..... guy I got them from had the pair in a small hampster cage, approx 16 by 16 by 24 (all inches) the birds were a bit bald on top of their heads from trying to fly anytime they got excited, and...