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    moving muscovy ducks to new living quarters - do they need to be confined for a week like chickens t

    I am feeling much more confident that the moving of the ducks to their new home will go smoothly. Thanks
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    moving muscovy ducks to new living quarters - do they need to be confined for a week like chickens t

    thank you very much for your responses...I think I will follow your advice and spend some time with them until they adjust.
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    moving muscovy ducks to new living quarters - do they need to be confined for a week like chickens t

    there is no top on the run. Several of the females I used to have did fly over the fence or up to the roof of the shed but most of the time they came back to be with the rest of the group before I shut the shed up each night. I would clip the wings of these two before moving them so that the...
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    moving muscovy ducks to new living quarters - do they need to be confined for a week like chickens t

    I have a male and female muscovy both 5 months old that I have been raising in a 4' x 8' box in the garage. They need to be moved to a shed that has a fenced in run. I had 25 muscovy ducks before that I had kept in the shed and they spent the day in the run and I shooed them into the shed...
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    Welded Wire Fence- Pros and Cons?

    Thank you so much for the pictures and details about your gate. We put half of the fencing up last weekend and will get the rest of the fencing up tomorrow then I will get the gates up during the week. One gate will be attached to a chain link fence post that we lined our t-post/welded wire...
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    Welded Wire Fence- Pros and Cons?

    I forgot to say that this post is in response to a post from HEChicken several years ago.
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    Welded Wire Fence- Pros and Cons?

    Several years ago you posted about using 5' welded wire fencing and t-posts as an extended run for your chickens. I have 200 feet of the 5' welded wire that I want to use to control my "free range" chickens when they are outside of their small protected run. I saw the picture of your run on...
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    help, chicken limping

    I hope your chicken gets better soon. It is so hard when something happens to our birds so I feel your stress.
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    help, chicken limping

    I am sure hoping that it is a strain and not Mareks. When I entered the coop the other morning she was on the roost and flapping her wings to get stable. I set her on the floor to look at her and realized that she could barely stand. I have not seen her hop but I have not seen her do anything...
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    help, chicken limping

    I put one of my hens in isolation two days ago with a leg issue. I think it is just a leg strain because when I first isolated her, she could not bear weight at all and now after 48 hours of quiet time she is standing and making tentative steps although with a limp. She is eating, drinking...
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    Introducing chicks to established flock

    Thank you so much! I had visions of the chick spending the winter in a cage in my bathroom which I really don't want to do.
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    Introducing chicks to established flock

    I hope I can learn from you: How did the dog crate work for you, what was the age of the chicks when you first put them into the coop with the dog crate as protection, what was the temperature? I have a 4 week old chick and an established 1 year old flock of 21 hens and 1 rooster. I have the...
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    Whole Dried Peas?

    thanks for your help on feeding whole peas...I tried it today with the chickens and they had no issues at all. The ducks however would have nothing to do with them. The ducks are SO fussy.
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    Whole Dried Peas?

    Quote: General consensus, peas are fine to feed whole. I got some responses on the "Old Timers Thread" as well. Thanks for all your opinions everyone, I will be feeding the peas whole! Hi Zanna, Your post showed up when I was searching for feeding whole peas to chickens. Have you had any...
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    Muscovy Ducklings

    I have two questions: 1. How to feed and water ducklings..One of my Muscovy ducks had three ducklings hatch today,,,she has her nest (and ducklings) in a pile of leaves behind a wooden box set in a shed and away from the area where I have the feed and water for the adult ducks. When I saw...
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    Property fence for free range

    Quote: I saw this old post and like the pavers you put in your run entrance. Did you dig out an area and set the pavers in sand, etc or did you just set the pavers on the ground? Right now (well after the snow from yesterday melts) my run entrance is a pool of mud and I was wondering if I...
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    Roosters Pecking the Back of Hens

    Thanks for the help. I will add extra cooked peas to the diet and keep a watch over my damaged hens.
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    Roosters Pecking the Back of Hens

    I have multiple hens that have been damaged in the last few weeks by a rooster that just started mounting select hens all the time and is extremely rough. He now spends his days with the ducks in another pen. The back of one hen has an area about 2 by 4 completely bald but the skin is not...
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    Ended Contest #1 Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set - 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-

    my guess is 9044
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    uncertain about muscovy eggs

    Thank you for your advice. I have spent a lot of time learning about chickens this past year and am feeling good with their care but my duck care skills need to be improved.
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