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    My ducks aren't laying - Help!

    Thank you! I love having a variety. The Runners are crazy little things. Not the smartest, but very cute. I originally got the ducks for entertainment. Then I started selling their eggs. I got used to having them available for people, and now have none. I feed them layer pellets from the feed...
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    My ducks aren't laying - Help!

    I have 10 females and 2 (maybe 3) males. This is my third winter with them. I used to get about 9 eggs per day, it didn't matter what the season. Toward the end of summer the amount of eggs started to drop off. I thought maybe it was seasonal/molting/etc. Well, it has been about 2 or 3 months...
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    Tufted Roman?

    I just stumbled upon this thread. I ordered a pair of Tufted Romans from Ideal this past spring. While I'm certain I got TR's, I am not convinced that I got a true "pair." I have two...but I think they're both male. Is there any way to tell the difference other than if one lays an egg? I've...
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    Need help sexing Tufted Roman - pics included

    Here's another pic I took today of the one I think is a female. Any ideas?
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    Need help sexing Tufted Roman - pics included

    I got a pair of Tufted Roman geese on March 8 from Ideal. They're now 11 1/2 weeks old. I'm having a hard time telling which is the male and which is the female. It kind of looks to me like one has a little bit bigger tuft than the other. I'm guessing the male has the bigger tuft. Their...
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    any keets yet..? 2012 hatching thread anyone?

    I finally got some pictures off my phone. As of the time I left for work this morning we had 14 babies. 10 are in the brooder (kiddie pool in the guest bedroom!) and 4 are still drying in the bator. We still have 15 eggs that have yet to hatch. Some have pipped, so we'll see what we end up...
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    any keets yet..? 2012 hatching thread anyone?

    I love the pictures of the chickens with the keets! Right now I have a banty hen outside with 5 keets. We also have the bator going with keets hatching as I sit here. I've got a sad story about the eggs in the bator, though. We had 2 guinea hens sitting on a nest. It was about 10:30 pm last...
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    2 day old, CROWING????? VIDEO ADDED!

    I have two that hatched on 12/14/11. Christmas morning (11 days old) I heard the same sound. Finally this morning I caught one - the one we suspected was a roo - crowing! I could hardly believe it. I wonder how long it has been crowing and I just hadn't heard it. Mine are Black Copper...
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    horse people...gelding? UPDATE!AGAIN! 11/26 pics

    I don't have an answer to your question but wanted to say he's BEAUTIFUL! Sounds like he's going to be a great horse! I have an 8 yr old AQHA gelding and a 4 yr old TB gelding (retired race horse) that don't focus as well as yours does!
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    My guineas are crazy!

    Quote: Oh my goodness, 200?!?! I can't even imagine! I wonder if my aunt that lives in Penn Valley can hear them? LOL Guineas are so much fun. They're such characters. I'm sure we'll end up with more than 18. Keets are too cute and the adults are silly/crazy!
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    My guineas are crazy!

    Thanks! I told DH yesterday that we must have to many guineas. (18 total) I walked out of my office building yesterday for lunch and could have sworn I heard guineas. I work in the city - there were definitely NO guineas in the area...just in my head!
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    My guineas are crazy!

    Last night I heard quite a ruckus from inside the house. I walked out to find them all lined up along the edge of the garage roof, raising hell! I grabbed my phone and in true guinea form, got spooked. Then, off they went! Here are a couple of pictures I was able to get. The ones in the...
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    Broody Chicken on Duck Eggs?

    YES! It worked great. The chicken raised the ducks until they got bigger than her. She protected them just as she would have her own chicks. I don't think she knew they weren't chickens...until they got in their little pool! ETA: DH just reminded me that it didn't work as well as I...
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    Welsh Harlequins coming!

    Congrats! Thanks for posting pics, I love them!!!
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    Welsh Harlequins coming!

    I'm so jealous! I have 3 WH and love em dearly. They are such cute babies and grow into beauties! Handle them as much as possible. I had a broody chicken take care of them for the first 3 weeks. After that i had them eating peas out of my hand but they still keep their distance from me to...
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    Welsh Harlequin

    Quote: Looking at your three, I'd also say the one in the middle is a male. Generally the males have a yellow bill with black bead and the females have an all black bill. I thought that two of my three WH were males at first but now at 2 1/2 months I can most definitely tell I have 2 girls...
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    Central Texas peeps: need coop advice for the hot summers

    Quote: This coop looks great! I need to build something like that... It's H O T here in Dallas lately!
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    guinea keet hatched early

    We started our guineas out in a homemade incubator w/ egg turner then split the eggs between 2 broody hens around day 6. Today is day 23 and we woke up this morning to FIVE keets! They had to have hatched last night because at 7 am when I noticed them they were all dry and fuzzy. One hen had...
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    Welsh Harlequin

    I love all the WH pics! We ordered eggs off ebay and put them in the incubator. With a week left we brought a broody chicken in the house to be the mama. We gave her the eggs and it worked like a charm. The babies hatched on 5/3/11 which puts them at 2 1/2 weeks old now. We had to put a...
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    Duck house - almost done! PIC HEAVY

    Quote: Thanks! The dogs are greyhounds. All three are retired and loving it! Here are some more pictures of the coop. The ducklings are finally in it! It was such a relief on Sunday to get em in there. Their pool for now is an extra large cat litter tub from the grocery store. They'll...
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