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  1. bbhorsefly

    If I have a secure run, do I really need a coop in California?

    I know of a woman in Michigan that doesn't have a coop. Her run is like a huge roofed picnic pavilion. She has nest boxes and different roosting areas. In the winter, she wraps the walls in sheeting plastic, like a green house. Her birds thrive. I'm in TN but have converted to that model...
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    Ducks Drowning Eachother?

    I bought five ducklings straight run and could've swore I ended up with two males because the Buff male and the smaller of the two khaki campbells would mount the others. So I was just waiting for the day the khaki would get curled tail feathers like the Buff. Nope! She started laying eggs...
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    Cayuga lay black eggs???

    We also have a Blue Swedish! Can they lay black eggs too? What I read said Blue Swedish lay "white, green, or blue tinted" from the livestock conservancy website. We had been getting one to two cream with khaki greenish spotted eggs from our two khaki campbells, but then one morning there were...
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    Cayuga lay black eggs???

    My Cayuga just laid her first egg
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    Our First Egg!

    Congrats!!! First eggs are always fun!
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    The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

    Sexing a khaki Campbell. We got two kc's March 30th. They are both brown and have the lacing where their back meets their tail, but one has white bands on its wings. Today, the one with the white bands looks like it's getting a curled tail feather. It wasn't that way yesterday and then today...
  7. bbhorsefly

    Cuckoo Ameraucanas

    Anyone still working on this? I bought an "Easter Egger," but now that he's grown, his legs aren't green, but gray/black/slate with white soles of his feet and I'd call his feathers cuckoo, not sharp barring. He's got the pea comb and I think beard and muffs, if someone wasn't plucking out...
  8. bbhorsefly

    Duck Feed

    Thanks for the replies! Maybe the "multi species flock" feeds are just gimmicky? I've had feed store employees give me bad advice in the past (I didn't take it and knew better) so I am just wary to take what they say as gospel. Your replies have made me feel so much better!
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    Duck Feed

    We got five ducklings, all feathered out with no more fuzz, on a whim from a feed store to add to our farm. I think I've determined breeds, jury is still out on genders. My question right now is feed. They've integrated into the chicken flock and go into the chickens coop at night with everyone...
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    Ideas on how to make a duck ramp for small pool?

    I built steps in and out with cinderblock, brick, and landscape edging bricks.
  11. bbhorsefly

    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    I was told by TSC employee, "chickens can't have layer feed before they turn six months old or it will kill them. Their digestive tracks are much too sensitive I scoffed at her and she looked at me like I had three heads. Some chickens lay before 6mo. And I've seen my chicks catch flies, worms...
  12. bbhorsefly

    First foray into ducks

    I've been watching for a runner like stance on any of them, but they don't stand upright at all. Perusing the breeds a Saxony looks like it, but then I read they are rare and I highly doubt they just happened to be in an assortment at a farm supply store.
  13. bbhorsefly

    First foray into ducks

    Yep! "Flash" definitely looks like a blue Swedish!
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    First foray into ducks

    You'd still guess Pekin even though the feathers are coming in brown? Or do they go through a brown phase before white? Ah! I have no idea! Haha
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    First foray into ducks

    I impulsively bought five ducklings when I picked up my yearly chicks. They were just SO CUTE! If anything could be cuter than a chick, it's possibly a duckling. Anyway, they told me, "they're pretty much like chicks. Keep them together feed them the same, not a big deal..." I'm finding that not...
  16. bbhorsefly

    Never seen these before...

    Got some "Production Red" chicks at Tractor Supply. Haven't ever bought from there before, but I got these for $.75/each! They look like standard RIR chicks, whatever. Except...these two odd little ones. I didn't even notice them until after we got home. They have red feathers like the other...
  17. bbhorsefly

    So few Eggs!!!!! HELP

    I'm not exactly sure what your asking. They are a mix of ages. All 40 range in age from 20 months all the way down to about 4 months, but I dont consider them "free loaders" until they are 6mo+. If you're asking about breeds, I have a huge variety. EE, OE, BO, Buckeye, Bantam Cochin, Ameraucana...
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    So few Eggs!!!!! HELP

    I've got 30+ hens/6mo pullets. We were at complete shut down for a long time too. Molting and short days. Lucky to get one egg a day. Then we got 3 in one day about two weeks ago. Then nothing. Then 9 in one day. Then none. Then 1-3 the last few days. AHHHHHHHH!!!!! Come on ladies! Bunch of free...
  19. bbhorsefly

    Found one dozen eggs hidden behind the house. Possibly three days old. Are they safe to keep?

    I had an EE that inexplicably "stopped laying" earlier this year for about a week and a half. I thought it was very odd until I found a small trail of her green eggs leading to a small clutch under a bush in my front yard. There were 8 eggs in total. I did the float test and they all tested...
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    Hen hatched her clutch, now what?

    Thanks!
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