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    Rhode Island Red Thread!

    What a pretty roo! We have 2 RIRs 18 weeks old...anxiously awaiting our first eggs lol. My most friendly chicken is one of our RIRs. She comes and chats with me every time I walk outside
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    Share your duck pictures here!

    I went outside to check on the chickens and ducks (we just started letting everyone free range)....These guys have a good sized kiddie pool but they choose to both get in this water tub together lol...goofy ducks
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    Do your chickens talk?

    3 of my 4 bigger girls are pretty quiet most of the time...occasionally making noises at eachother but mostly quiet...one of my RIRs chats with me everytime I come near the coop though....she is my fave and the most social My favorite thing is our 2 mallards....they are too funny....they just...
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    mosquitoes in duck pond. How can I prevent this?

    we use mosquito dunks in our horse water troughs and dog water troughs and they work great. I would figure if they are safe for horses they'd be find for the ducks too.....but I havent used them in the duck pool because I just dump it and refill it every couple of days...so someone might be...
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    Gender of my "babies"

    Well if we don't get olive eggs I don't care....lol....my kids picked her because she had cute little feathers down the side of her legs I was told she was an olive egger and that is the extent of my knowledge on that lol....I don't think they will be too disappointed over the color of the...
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    Integrating 4 chicks with 2 year old hens, need a lil advice from you seasoned keepers

    I think thats fine...just as long as they are close and can see and hear each other....
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    Gender of my "babies"

    I have had a gut feeling about Elsa being a Roo for awhile.... :-/ bad news....he/she is my daughters favorite lol I wasn't really concerned about Anna until she started sparring with Elsa....none of the others tend to do that soooo I started wondering. That looks like our other Wyandotte...
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    Integrating 4 chicks with 2 year old hens, need a lil advice from you seasoned keepers

    I am in no way a seasoned pro but this is what worked for me when I integrated out 7 week olds in with our big girls I kept them in a separate pen in the coop/run with the big girls that way they were near each other but couldn't get to each other. We did this for about a week or two....After...
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    Gender of my "babies"

    I am guessing they are around 7 ish weeks? (I was guessing around 3-4 weeks when we got them...we've had them 3-4 weeks) but I am new to this chicken thing soooooo It's just a semi educated guess of the 7 babies I am fairly certain 5 are pullets there are two that I'm not sure about....at what...
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    What breed are these?

    the black and white one (2nd) looks a lot like one of our easter eggers (I am not an expert by any means....but he/she looks very much like our little easter egger)
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    Chicken Names- whats your chickens name?

    lol WELL it WAS "Soft warm and fuzzy" lol but I got them to narrow it down to just Fuzzy lol much more managable :D
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    Chicken Names- whats your chickens name?

    Finally got the kids to name the 4 unnamed pullets :) sky, glamour, blackie, and fuzzy And we had to change one of the mallards name.....turns our Elsa is actually a boy....He is now Marshall (from paw patrol lol)
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    Drakes or hens?

    I'm no good at tellling the gender until it is OBVIOUS lol but I am fairly certain we have one mallard drake and one mallard hen....our drake is starting to get green on the sides of his head and getting more and more gray in his wings. His chest is becoming more of a coppery color. Both...
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    Chicks Were Killed and it's My Fault...

    Dont be too hard on yourself. My daughter brought home 2 chicks from school. After a few weeks I decided to put them (In a smaller cage) in the coop with the 4 bigger pullets. They were fine for a couple of weeks then I walked out one morning to a snake in the cage....one chick laying there...
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    Share your duck pictures here!

    Sven and Elsa This is Sven Sven on this side....thats Elsa behind I need a better picture of Elsa When they were babies
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