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    Air pocket in narrow end?!?!

    I'm hatching ducklings, and one has the air pocket in the narrow end of the egg! They go in lockdown on Wednesday, so it's fairly developed. Could this one hatch out the wrong end, or will it likely need an assist? I have no problems doing that, I've helped babies, ducks and chickens, before as...
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    What are these guys?

    Honestly, they couldn't be in a better spot to be dumped. They're in the middle of a very high class neighborhood, people come to feed them seed and whatever else, there are two colleges with strong environmental programs close by (they're technically on the campus of one.) And the wildlife...
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    What are these guys?

    We were out and about in Western North Carolina and saw these guys at a duck pond. It's next to a wildlife rescue, and while they don't *allow* folks to dump off their unwanted farm birds there, the presence of pekins and khaki Campbells in the pond suggest that folks do. So, wondering about the...
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    Overnight Watering Solutions

    I use a chick feeder for their kibble and a medium sized dog bowl for their water. It works well, and the greedy little buggers certainly know when dinner time is. I can hear them hollering from their run if the sun goes down before I get out there, or if they're free ranging that day they'll...
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    Bruised meat?

    I posted about plucking my jerk rooster last night. After reading a bunch on here last night I decided to just keep it simple and skin him, and then slow cook the snot out of him and then can, mostly because he's somewhere between 12-16 months old. Once I got him skinned I realized he's pretty...
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    Moving a Rooster to Freezer Camp

    I'm not new to butchering chickens, I raise all my Roo's to eventually be dinner. I do a batch each spring and fall as they grow. This guy went after my three year old so he gets an early ticket. Anyhow, since I do it by myself and my kiddos are usually around I usually just skin them as that's...
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    Can a coop have too much space?

    We have an 8x8 shed turned coop too. We also started with 6 chickens. As of today I have +/- 40 chickens and 12 ducks. Good luck not filling your coop. Chicken math is hard to escape!
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    Best plants/trees/bushes for runs...

    Weeds here, but they provide great shade. Joe Pye Weed, cutleaf coneflower, multifora rose. They do eat the rose hips. I also have elderberry growing down in their run. They eat the berries in the fall. Other ideas I've seen is planting a fruit bearing tree or bush outside the run so fruit...
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    Silkies in main coop

    That's basically my plan for my silkies, living incubators as they see fit. I'll keep one silkie roo to protect them.
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    Silkies in main coop

    I like that set up. I don't have quite that much room, but I like that idea.
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    Silkies in main coop

    To answer all the questions and possibly clear up some things, my existing coop is basically a 8x8 shed I can walk into. We have roosting bars at 5' on two sides and about 2.5' on one. I think I can install a shorter roosting bar in one corner if they'd use it. But if they don't I don't want...
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    Silkies in main coop

    I'm sorry you couldn't keep him, I hate laws like that.
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    Silkies in main coop

    Does anyone have a separate silkie setup in their existing coop? I'm learning that the silkies I had years ago that roosted were a bit of an anomaly. I don't have room to build extra coops in my run space, and I can expand my run due to terrain. My coop is fairly large, and I could potentially...
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    Introducing younger ducklings to older ducklings

    @GardenDucks thank you for your detailed play by play and other insights. I'm still learning and every bit helps! This is what I've come up with so far. They have a small-ish coop (hubby will have to make me a new one before long, we were only planning on a 3-4 ducks. We have 12. I think...
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    Quack sexing??

    So I have one who is quacking and one who is still cheeping, both six weeks old, both very vocal. The quacker would be a hen and the one who's still cheeping would be my Drake? (I'm guessing he's a Drake anyway because he's getting a green sheen to his black feathers.)
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