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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Hi All, I am in Taunton, Ma and wanted to find out if anyone would be interested in 4 Muscovy ducklings for FREE! I "rescued" them from a friend's place because her dogs were eatting them. I had made a promise to my bf that I would have no more ducks....well broke my promise (BUT I HAD TOO...
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    28 days later and they disappeared

    Someone said earlier that predators leave feathers, otherwise its humans. This is not always true. I had a fox with kits that came and took a duck, her 12!!! Eggs all in one night. We thought it was a.person too until my mother in law saw it raid our coop of a silkie. This was midday and the fox...
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    New England Bantam Club SWAP MEET September 19 Brockton (MA)

    Hey mark. I bought your chick today. I was really hoping my bantam would accept it but she tried to kill it. I think you might live near me. Any chance you would trade the chick for a fertile egg? I don't want the chick to be raised by itself and i obviously can't leave her with them big girls.
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    New England Bantam Club SWAP MEET September 19 Brockton (MA)

    Just realized its tomorrow haha whoops
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    New England Bantam Club SWAP MEET September 19 Brockton (MA)

    Where was everyone? I got there at 1050 with my muscovies and no one was there
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    hen thinks golf balls are eggs!! what to do?

    I have a english bantum that thinks golf balls are her eggs. I put them in a nest to try to get my free rangers to lay inside instead of outside. Eloise, the bantie, now has been sitting on the golf balls for over a month. If i take them away she chases me, all upset and i feel horrible and give...
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    Ok so my meaties look like drowned muddy rats

    Ok so in Massachusetts we had torential rain storms for the past three days. Sun finally came out today, but my poor 13 meaties look like dried muddy drowned rats. Their feathers are pasted together and they are walking funny. It is ok to give them warm baths right??? otherwise they will be...
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    Is this a white leghorn roo??? If not what is it??

    IT WAS A HEN! Anyone know what type of chicken this might be....I have 2 more and NO IDEA how to tell if it is a roo or a hen....I guess I will have to wait to see if they crow.... I feel really bad I killed her now.....She isn't even much to eat I cannot have roos where I live so I hope...
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    Is this a white leghorn roo??? If not what is it??

    Thanks a bunch! mmmmmm
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    Is this a white leghorn roo??? If not what is it??

    Can anyone tell me what this is? These were packing peanuts and I thought they were white leghorn roos... but now I am not sure....the brown spots are NOT dirt. They are at least 12 weeks old now, do not crow, do not lay eggs ...yet, and look more like roos to me. They are set for the...
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    How far are they going to roam?

    I free range my chickens and have lost more to my darn dog than to predators....do not and I repeat do NOT trust your dog. She was raised around them and once she killed one it was all over. I have now fenced off with chicken wire my picket fence (where dog is) and the chickens cannot get in...
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    My dog ate 3 chickens!!!!!

    Ok so I have a 1.5 year old female bullmastiff. Raised around chickens. She was fine the first year and now she is a savage!!!! She killed 2 chickens this past week (they are young pullets)....I think she caught them and just crushed them and then we found them burried in the yard. Now this...
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    killed my first rooster...chicken for that matter.... :(

    thankyou all for your replies....I'm feeling better about it today and realize it had to be done. Thank goodness for BYC though, because no one else seems to understand why I had to do it....they just think I am cruel (mainly mother and bf).....my boyfriend actually suggested I let him go in...
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    killed my first rooster...chicken for that matter.... :(

    So I started my own flock last year and bought some more this year...got a bunch of roos though, so finally had to do the deed last night. I tried Pithing him but he flinched at the last moment so I had to cut off his head.... It was THE most horrid thing I have done. Very traumatizing ending...
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    Swap Meet! Today Massachusetts

    I'll be there. Do I just pay the set up fee when i get there? I'll have alot with me. I have about 20 chicks (mottled cochins, silver sebrights, columbian wyandottes) and then I have 2 silver sebrights (8 weeks old). Does anyone know if there will be anyone with an Adult mallard drake??? My...
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    Here is a laugh for all you chicken people!!

    So I have 7 grown hens, 18 young pullets, and 40 chicks. lovely DH said I could keep 15 chickens total....the others I promised to sell. He said he only wants to see 15 chickens free ranging in the backyard. Well today my neighbor stops over and says she is going to get some of her own...
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    What took eggs AND duck????!!?!!!

    I think I'm done with ducks....I tried to get these ducks to go into their coop each night, I chased them around night after night trying to catch them to make them sleep inside and they wanted none of it and no matter how long I left them in their coop they would not want to stay in it the...
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    What took eggs AND duck????!!?!!!

    Now my other mallard hen and her 15 eggs are gone!!!! Went out to check on her this morning and Same circumstances as the other hen!!! I am SOOOO mad!!! If this is a human predator I sure hope i never meet them...I'm totally fuming!
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    mallard ducks

    Do ducks eat the remnants of hatched eggs though?
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    mallard ducks

    Ok so my two mallard hens laid thier nests about 25 feet from my house near the stream that runs through our property. One duck only has one leg that works. They laid on thier nests for at least 3.5 weeks. Last night I go out to check them and one hen is gone and so is all evidence of the 15...
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