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Thanks for your response. Checked out the links. My main problem I think, is not that she'll be accepted but simply that my neighbors home she grew up in (even though there are no chickens there now) is her home, and visually not very far away. Maybe will have to ask the neighbor to help out...

Lost 3 hens to racoon predators this past fall and our neighbor had single hen he gave to me. Kept her in my coop with wire barrier and after third day left her mingle the next two days. She was confined and not allowed to free range with others during 6 days. Day 7 left her go out with flock...

If you want to go for an odd breed duck try Indian runners. https://runnerduck.net/photos.php

Kiddie pools are the greatest invention for keeping a few ducks happy. When I was a kid/teen, I had a small group of about 10 mallard/rouen ducks that I could walk about 1/4 mile from our house to a stream and they would swim and bathe for about a half hour and them come back to the bank to dry...

Not sure where you live but one of the main "mess factors" is they need water for bathing...not a huge amount but a tub which can be emptied easily and big enough for everybody to get into. Other than that choice of breed is your choice because care is pretty much the same. I've kept mallards...

Brown that looks like Easter-egger is the only hen in the group. All roos except for the seabright are mixes. Rumpless probably has Auracana heritage.

It sound like this is your first experience with chickens and with 18 hens, you can be getting 16-18 eggs a day when they start laying and through early summer. If you planning of keeping these birds, long term, they will need a rest to molt (late summer) and get ready for laying in the spring...

Good morning. Both your RRs and the barred rocks have a young roo in their midst. Pullets don't show much pink/red and swelling in the comb area early on but young cocks can start showing this at a month and definitely at the age of your birds are. You have a handsome young rr rooster (probably...