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    Male attacking new ducks

    I have a cayuga drake that is very aggressive with the now 8 week old new comers, I know one of the newbies is a female for sure, she is quacking and he chases her to mate, but the other two do not Quack, they are not peeping either, more like whistling. they do not have curly tail feathers...
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    Sexing Ducklings (Please check here first :D )

    I have Black Cayuga ducks, and I believe that when they get to be about 4-6 weeks you can tell the girls by the Peep/Quack sound, I have never gotten any sort of Quack sound from the boys. Also, I had just paid an extra fee from the feed mill where I got my ducks from, for (sexed ducks) to...
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    Sexing Ducklings (Please check here first :D )

    YES!
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    Chicken pests

    I have noticed that my chickens are shaking their heads a lot and have a white sort of powdery look on their combs . Does anyone have any ideas?
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    Duck acting strangely

    sadly she passed oo. Yes I have males. and she had last layed an egg about 3 days before she began to act sick.
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    Duck acting strangely

    I went to the website that you included in your reply. This seemed to indicate the cause as being lack of water to swim, my ducks have a small pool inside of their pen with which to swim, also the leaking is white, not yellow and I soaked her in a tub of warm water and did not notice an order...
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    Duck acting strangely

    Update: I have moved her to a pen in the garage, giving her rooster booster in her water. She is sipping, not eating, and not pooping. I have never seen a cleaner duck pen. I am still seeing white milky substance coming from the back end... Any ideas? ANYBODY?
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    Duck acting strangely

    I have a female cyuga ? duck, she has been hanging out by herself which is not her norm. and this morning I found her by the pool sipping water, and she had white stringy stuff coming from her back side. She has not laid in a couple of days, could there be a broken egg inside possibly? and if...
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    Is it OK to leave my chickens locked in the coop for the winter?

    It s my belief that they are going to figure that out on their own due to their own instinct. If you let them out in their pen during the day, they will go into the coop on their own as they can not see well at night and prefer to roost off of the ground. I moved my pullets into their coop for...
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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

    Well Rita has managed to hatch one egg. Now what do I do? Should I remove her and the baby from the coop? and for how long? My thoughts were to remove them until the baby was old enough to go in and then start removing the bully chickens and introduce them all back into the coop together? Any...
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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

    Great idea, Thanks I will try that!
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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

    I was thinking the same thing, I am going to watch tomorrow and see which one starts it and take her out over night, they are much bigger chickens then my poor Rita B. So If they pick on the bully it will not be as bad. I may need to rotate girls until they can establish a new pecking order...
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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

    Well I knew it was a risk,but I had to protect the rest of the flock until I knew what was wrong with her, also this was way back in July, Early July when she was separated and this bulling is a recent development. She started going broody so I had been fighting her with that, then I noticed...
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    Help! I have a poor chicken that is being bullied!

    I have a bannie chicken that is being bullied by everyone, she stays in the coop to stay away from everyone and only comes out to eat and drink but they will barely allow her to do that. How can I break this behavior or can I. She is my favorite one of the 12 and is just a sweet heart, although...
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    Comment by 'Ibchduckin' in article 'Fire Safety in the Coop and Barn'

    Thank you for this article! I am a big worry wart when it comes to my kids. I love all of my babies, chickens and ducks. I have my coop hard wired but do use an extension cord for my ducks water heater. I will now get a cover for the connection, Thanks for that information.
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    Comment by 'Ibchduckin' in article 'DYI Forever Water Heater'

    This sounds like a great idea, and I would use it. My question for you is how would you keep the little nipple water things from freezing? This year already they froze along with those little cup watering things. The water in the bucket did not freeze though. I was using those bird bath heaters...
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    Heated Waterer opinions?

    Well I have tried the 5 gallon bucket with the water cups attached and a submersible electric heater but the cups freeze solid, so 80 dollars later I am going back to get heated dog water bowls.
  19. Ibchduckin

    Winter Shelters for Ducks

    I began my life with chickens this spring. I have 11 hens and one rooster. My daughter brought me 4 black Cayuga ducks for mothers day. As the ducks grew they were put in with the chickens and loved to go under the coop which is about 18 inches off of the ground but as they grew they became...
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    Can you eat a once frozen egg?

    I have had issue with eggs freezing while in the fridge. I cracked it open to fry and it was surrounded with ice but not solid. I cooked them up and they were fine.
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