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  1. missionarywife

    How to get rid of a weasel or mink.

    I am not sure which I have but it has gotten eggs and got a pullet yesterday. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?
  2. missionarywife

    missing eggs

    it is a weasel of some sort. I don't know how to get rid of it. I am sickened cause it got one of my young pullets yesterday. Today My 9 yr old saw it in the chicken house. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? My ducks started laying again but then stopped suddenly. I am sick of feeding...
  3. missionarywife

    missing eggs

    My poor ladies stopped laying about 4 months ago. My husband has been horrid telling me that they are useless and that I need to butcher them. Tonight my son found 2 eggs stuck frozen between some wood in the wood pile. The wood pile is right next to where they lay. Can rats steal eggs? If so...
  4. missionarywife

    Lost 2 hens in 3 days

    Thank you, We definately don't want to lose anyone else and the fact that they are not acting sick kind of scares me.
  5. missionarywife

    Lost 2 hens in 3 days

    I think I am going to end up calling the village vet this afternoon and see if he will come out and look at the birds.
  6. missionarywife

    Lost 2 hens in 3 days

    Our Black hen has always been very slow and so when she died I wasn't supprised. Now this morning my son went out to feed the birds and came in to tell me that Denise, my crooked toe hen, was dead also. No one seems sick, poo looks ok, feeding fine, fresh water. They all stopped laying and...
  7. missionarywife

    Have to cull a full grown duck, anyone ever butcher?

    I had a duckling that was abused by a drake. She couldn't walk, because she was so pretty and my favorite we didn't cull her. She is walking now. It took a long time for her to recover. As for the drake-he is old and I am sure tough but we will be butchering him, just not sure when.
  8. missionarywife

    large family? 5+ kids? anyone?

    Quote: Wow, that is one cool family! I didn't know you could freeze chopped onions.
  9. missionarywife

    large family? 5+ kids? anyone?

    Hi 6 kids here. 1 girl and 5 boys,15,13,11,9,4 and 2. We have a 3 bedroom house. The boys,except the baby share and exlarge room. My dd shares with the 2 yr old. We homeschool. Just since Jan have I gotten out alone once a week and that is for a language lesson. I don't complain. I enjoy...
  10. missionarywife

    question about adult drake mounting 8 wk old. UPDATE on DUCKLING

    Quote: I don't mean to be nasty but people don't rehome birds here, they eat them. She is doing better and walking more so I believe she will make a full recovery.
  11. missionarywife

    question about adult drake mounting 8 wk old. UPDATE on DUCKLING

    She does get a bath everyday. Today she seems even better. The drake is in a cage during the day and out in the yard at night. I leave him out with the 2 older ducks, they have a pool, house and all the bugs they could desire. I haven't decided what to do whith him yet. I hate the idea of...
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    question about adult drake mounting 8 wk old. UPDATE on DUCKLING

    Well, the duck, Miss Lucky, is starting to walk a little. She still is in a hospital box in the house. But now spends the days in the back yard by herself. I am afraid to put her with the others yet. I want to see that she is all better before we reintroduce her. I am thrilled that she is...
  13. missionarywife

    I bought some keets today

    My husband yelled at my son for having the booder light on when it was 100 degrees outside. Well, we forgot to put the light overnight cause I had been to town in a public trans bus with no ac and people wouldn't let you open the windows cause I had to take my 2 yr old with hemiplegia to a...
  14. missionarywife

    Two roosters... One fight... One injured.

    I had a very agreesive brown factory rooster raised since birth with the other rooster. He constantly caused problems until my son and I butchered him. The agressiveness in the chicken house is gone and it is very nice out there now.
  15. missionarywife

    I bought some keets today

    How much are they going for in the states now? I paid here in Ukraine a little over 4 dollars a piece.
  16. missionarywife

    question about adult drake mounting 8 wk old. UPDATE on DUCKLING

    She isn't walking. She sits. If she tries to walk she uses her bill and wings. Is there something I can do or is it a lost cause? I do put her in water everyday. She loves cooked buckwheat.
  17. missionarywife

    I bought some keets today

    Well, I can walk by the chicks and ducklings for sale. My dh thinks we have too many birds and keeps asking when some are going into the soup pot. I can't eat my babies.
  18. missionarywife

    I bought some keets today

    I am a sucker, again I have bought ginnea keets. Last year we had 7, 2 made it to full grown only to have my dog eat one. Today at the bazzar a guy was selling them and I bought 4 more keets. I am hoping to have some females to go with the male that I already have. My dh wasn't too happy as...
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    question about adult drake mounting 8 wk old. UPDATE on DUCKLING

    ok, I have Bob the drake in isolation during the day and free ranging at night with his 2 women. The duckling though seems worse. She really is having a hard time walking and sits most of the time. I now have her in a hospital box in the house where I can watch her and give her special food...
  20. missionarywife

    WHY do they lay so late in the day?

    My hens have started to lay later in the day. This is the first time since I have had chickens,4 yrs, that the chickens lay so late in the day.
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