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    Need to buy a duck! Southeren California

    Hello. I am looking for buy a female friend for my new mallard drake. I live in Rural Hemet, CA. I am not looking for a baby. I am looking for a year or two old female. I would like to have a pekin, but anything really will do. I just want browny to perk up and be happy again. Thank you for your...
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    Young game hen stopped laying

    My neighbor had two ducks, a tiny rooster, and a game hen. Well the rooster was attacked and was killed. Just a couple days before this happening, the hen started laying on an egg. The egg turned out to be a dud, so we had to force her off the egg. Just four days ago one of her ducks was eaten...
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    New to ducks!

    Hello out there, About four days ago my neighbor had two ducks, a mallard and a perkin. The perkin was eaten by a bob cat. The two ducks grew up together. So she asked, if I wanted her mallard and her chicken little. I jumped on it. Her and her husband have a lot going on and I have more space...
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    Need plant advice, Southern Califonia, Ruaral Hemet

    I have been wanting to plant some kind of grass or really anything that they can eat a lot of without getting sick. My chickens are in a large pen area and don't get to free range. So I was wondering what I could plant out here that basically grows like wildfire or at least something that is...
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    Today at 1pm is day 25. What should I do?

    I have not heard any chirping, no pipping. I did the water test and found three of them rocking. What next? This is my first hatch and not sure what to do next. How long is too long? I have Welsummer, Australorp, and Bovan eggs.
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    Electricity went out yesterday!

    Day 14 of incubation and our electricity went out yesterday for about three hours. So I was racking my brain trying to figure out how in the world I was going to keep the eggs warm until the electricity comes back on. Took me 30 minutes to realize that I had these cool little lanterns that have...
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    Temp issues, not sure what's going on!

    This my first time incubating ever and on top of that I made my own incubator. I have a large Ice chest, 40w bulb, one digital and one Mercury thermometer, and small fan.I tested my incubator last night (3 hours 99) and all this morning (5 hours 100). I put my eggs in at 1pm and a couple hours...
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    Broken leg or pulled muscle!!

    I'm not sure what happened. I let my chickens out yesterday morning and one of my Austalorps hurt her leg somehow. She won't put any weight on it. So felt for any broken bones and I don't really feel anything. She did move her toes and she can move the leg, but not very much. She was sitting...
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    Heard of a Bovan Brown?

    I saved three girls from where my husband's cousin works and they are called Bovan Browns. These girls are funny and really eat their weight in food. They are about 20 weeks old and one is already laying.
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    Nest boxes VS Hens

    How many nest boxes do I really need for my 7 hens? And in the near future if I decide to hatch my own chicks, I want to make sure I have enough nest boxes before I put in a perch for my chickens. Later I will take pictures of my coop in hopes that I could get more Ideas. That is, if I am aloud...
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    Anyone roughly know when an Australorp will go broody?

    I live in So Cal and have been a chicken owner for 5 months. My Australorps are almost a year old. They just started laying Mid January. How long till they go broody? I'm thinking about making my own incubator, but I would much rather them go broody. What do you guys think?
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    Not sure of my roo, He's scaring me!

    I have a Delaware/Brama mix rooster. I got him about 2 weeks ago and at first he was really cute. I even named him Stevie cause of his little neck dance. Anyways, he started doing this little dance to me. He would duck down and kind of tip top towards me sideways. He was so funny. Well yesterday...
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    Eye injury....Anything more that I can do?

    I have had my first small flock for about a month. I noticed my other chickens( 2 australorp and 1 welsummer), beating up on my smallest Welsummer. She is about five months old and I have had her in the house in a dog crate. She has been in the house for about four days now. She has been eating...
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    Hello from Southern California

    Hi, my name is Paula. I got my own flock about two months ago. And so far I am liking it a lot. I have two Australorp hens and two Welsummer hens. I am really looking forward to meeting lots of people and gaining lots of knowledge from everyone here.
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